When teaching through STEM, and inquiry, you will find that misconceptions are one of the biggest obstacles. The first of these is that your lesson is STEM if it involves any Science, Tech, Engineering, or Math. There is more required than that. Problem solving is needed.

When you use many recommended STEM activities in English class, you may end up feeling like you are teaching another subject, and not covering ELA topics. That’s why we have to stress the planning, research, and writing formats. Minimize the experiment. #STEM2020 #inquiry

There are classic STEM activities out there, but we can’t all use them. Students have made so many houses out of sticks now. Our imaginations have to produce unique activities. #stem #STEM2020 #problemsolving #inquiry

As English teachers, we have a better starting point than any other class. We have literature, and in those stories are countless problems. We can design problem solving activities around these. #STEM2020 #stem #problemSolving

The easiest way for ELA teachers to engage in STEM is to identify a problem in the novel (or even better if you allow them to identify problems) and the seek out solutions. #stem #inquiry #problemsolving

When confornting a literary problem, the solution might be science or engineering based, but could also be solved through persuasion or exercise, or artwork. Problems are solved in many different ways, using many different fields. #stem #inquiry

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