{"id":11190,"date":"2016-02-26T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T16:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=11190"},"modified":"2018-11-06T11:30:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T17:30:48","slug":"npt-reports-stem-growing-in-tennessee-classrooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2016\/02\/26\/npt-reports-stem-growing-in-tennessee-classrooms\/","title":{"rendered":"NPT Reports: STEM Growing in Tennessee Classrooms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B1pNybqLnic?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Once a month, students at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitchellneilsonschools.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School<\/a> spend the afternoon working with circuit boards, connectors, computers and all sorts of technology. They are members of a popular club at this Murfreesboro, Tennessee, school: the STEM Club, as in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.<br \/>\nThe students work in teams\u2014some using gadgets to remotely program laptop computers. Another group is creating three-dimensional images using computer software.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, math and science is something we use in everyday life, basic,\u201d says Vanessa, an 11-year-old student in the club. \u201cIf you don\u2019t use it every day you lose it, so I just want to get better at it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s precisely what teacher David Lockett, who leads this group, wants for all students in Tennessee: an opportunity to engage with STEM not just during extra-curricular activities, but in everyday class work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt gives them a different perspective and a different idea of how they can approach a problem\u201d explains Lockett. \u201cThey look at the hypothesis and look at the steps and method and have a bigger picture and can intertwine that into their real-world studies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lockett teaches all sixth-grade subjects, but he has always had a passion for science and finds a way to bring STEM into his classes\u2014even English and history. He also directs a statewide STEM camp program to reach students far beyond his classroom, with the help of several universities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo students from the neighborhoods and communities can see STEM as I see it. They can see it\u2019s hands on; they can see engineers come in; they can take field trips, they can see the bigger picture.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Such efforts reflect a growing push in Tennessee to increase STEM instruction for middle school students, especially girls, who are under-represented in STEM professions. A multi-million dollar grant recently awarded to Nashville Public Schools by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.ed.gov\/programs\/innovation\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Investing in Innovation<\/a> project of the U.S. Department of Education will fund a program called GROW STEM, which stands for Girls Realizing Opportunities With STEM.<\/p>\n<p>Many teachers, including Lockett, seek unique ways to interest girls in STEM, sometimes recreating the acronym to STEAM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics. It is combing visual arts and performing arts into the classroom discipline so students can get a better idea of those values and concepts,\u201d says Lockett.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want them to see how STEM is a big part of every career so they can see how it\u2019s multi-faceted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His hypothesis is working for students like Vanessa. She has decided to become an FBI agent, due in part to the STEM Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve seen in crime shows they use all different types of skills and work on a team,\u201d Vanessa says. \u201cYou have to have a science background and medicines and chemicals that they use to see what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once a month, students at Mitchell-Neilson Elementary School spend the afternoon working with circuit boards, connectors, computers and all sorts of technology. 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