STEAM Up the Classroom's premiere episode features guest Linda Chiarizio. Linda is head chef at Tangerini Spring Street Farm in Millis, Massachusetts. Linda and Tori discuss how to integrate agriculture and culinary arts with STEAM. Topics include: how to start school/class gardens, the benefits of growing plants with students. and how to turn crops into food.

Episode 1- Culinary/Farm Science

STEAM Up the Classroom's second episode features guest Ross Clayton. Ross is a high school biology and marine biology teacher who created and piloted the marine biology curriculum in his district. Ross and Tori chat about how to integrate marine biology topics into the curriculum, the importance of learning about marine biology even in landlocked towns/states, and much more!

Episode 2: Marine Bio & STEM

Episode 3 features Mandi Figlioli. Assistant to the superintendent, Mandi is a curriculum specialist and makerspace aficionado from Pennsylvania. We chat makerspaces, creating makerspaces for all grade levels, Pittsburg, grants & partnerships, and so much more!

Episode 3: Makerspaces and Maker Ed

Ally Watson co-founded Code like a Girl after experiencing first-hand the barriers women have in the male-dominated computer science and developer industry. Code like a Girl aims to change the playing field, with a strong focus on mentoring girls in coding and computational thinking in a creative environment that sparks a love of logic and leadership.  

“We tell them, this what a programmer is, this is what it looks like and this is my story. So, these girls a heading home and getting inspired by the women who facilitate these sessions and they’re saying …Mum, Dad, I want to be a coder when I grow up!” 

After chatting with Ally Watson, we also look at ways you can teach about robotics without having a robot or a computer plus we revisit a grab from a past episode in which Neil Bramsen talks about his approach for teaching primary students about logical reasoning.

Hosted by Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education  

Top 3 learnings

Get involved! Coding is about getting your mind wrapped around creatively solving a logic challenge. There are plenty of opportunities to join a coding group, you just have to join the fun. 

It’s the story that matters. It’s just as important for kids to know why coding is important as it is to know how to program a given task. 

Coding is part of our future. Even if you know that you may not become a software developer, it is just as important to learn how these machines function as they are becoming more and more prevalent in today’s society.

Contact details for Ally Watson  
https://codelikeagirl.org
https://twitter.com/codelikeagirlAU

Education tip: 
Teach coding without a robot or computer 
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>100 Free Science Experiments  http://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/Free+experiments.html 

>100 Free Science Ideas and Tips http://www.fizzicseducation.com.au/Blog.html

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Episode 4 features Claire Seldon from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Claire and Tori chat about gamification and gamifying your lessons. Interested in creating exciting, progressive, and challenging lessons? Listen to this episode and be inspired to create lessons and units that give your students a voice. Claire and Tori chat about ways to create quests/challenges and to gamify your students' way of learning.

Episode 4: Gamification

Episode 5 features Shane Evans, President of the New Jersey Technology and Engineering Educators Association (NJTEEA) and Debra Coen, Secretary of the NJTEEA. Tori, Shane and Debra talk about makerspaces, implementing the right type of makerspace for your program, and the levels of makerspaces. Debra and Shane also talk with Tori about inspiring and supporting educators and students in reaching their STEM goals.

Episode 5: Makerspace Levels

Dr. Jacie Maslyk and Mandi Figlioli join Tori Cameron for this makerspace filled episode. Topics include: what to do with a makerspace, integrating literacy with STEM and making, workshops, teaching ideas, and lots more!

Episode 7: Literacy and Making

Chris Woods from the STEM Everyday Podcast and Tori Cameron combine shows in this special episode! Both Chris and Tori chat about STEM, finding STEM in daily life, why STEM is important, what the future of STEM is, and much more!

Episode 8: STEM Everyday

In Episode 9 of STEAM Up the Classroom, Tori is joined by Matthew X. Joseph Ed.D, Colleen Terrill, and Erin Fisher. Matthew, Colleen, and Erin are all experts in the field of technology education. The group chats about technology within the classroom and school district, and as a tool for enhancing learning. You don't want to miss this episode!

Episode 9: Tech Expert Panel

In the 10th episode, Sam Leah joins Tori Cameron via video chat all the way from Australia! Sam and Tori chat about integrating STEAM in local museums, incorporating STEAM with social studies and history, and how schools and museums can collaborate.

Episode 10: STEAM The Museum

Fizzics Education exists to deliver engaging science to any audience, anywhere!

We've been a leading Australian provider of interactive science workshops and shows since 2004, delivering inspiring science programs to approximately 300,000 children each year via incursion and video conference across 400 schools and public spaces throughout Australia and around the world. Our science presentations are run in schools and in non-traditional environments such as movie cinemas, shopping centers, libraries, juvenile justice centers, hospitals, park lands, sports stadiums, retirement homes, university theaters and any other facility able to accommodate large or small groups of people.

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