STEM concepts incorporated in Lesson Plans

STEM lessons are not very hard to implement. My science curriculum the Foss kits already come in the format for STEM lessons. The idea is that students instead of being taught the scientific method as a lesson, they use it in the everyday Science class. The foss kits come with open ended focus questions that students need to figure out by themselves. First, they are introduced materials, then they test the materials, they analyze their properties, based on the focus questions the students carry out investigations to solve those focus questions. Teacher assists and reviews vocabulary, provides the sentence frames for students to come up with their own hypothesis and conclusions.

STEM lessons work in strengthening the following skills: Critical thinking skills, problem solving skills, and team work skills. Because those are the skills more sought after by employers.The reason for that is that we are training our students to fill job positions that don't even exist now. For example 20 years ago there weren't jobs for cloud computing, or self-driving cars, and for solar energy cars, and panels.  

Our lessons can incorporate STEM concepts by solving real world problems, encouraging students to carry out investigations, by using technology, research, and working in groups. Cooperative learning helps students come with people skills to the workforce, so that they can efficiently, and productively work with others.