Equity for students must include STEAM opportunities at a young age. STEAM on Demand is a virtual platform that hosts more than 136 interactive videos for instructors to use in the classroom in guiding students through standards-based projects in the STEAM fields. The instructor projects the platform's videos onto a large screen for collaborative student discussion and engagement. STEAM on Demand relies on the hardware and internet connectivity provided by the school. A school will need to have large digital screens for teaching, other hardware available in the classroom may also be used to provide accommodations such as text to speech as well as amplification, as needed. STEAM on Demand does not track student use, collect any student information, generate student grades or require any student sign-in. The only tracking is of the instructor's use to see which lessons have been taught and when they were taught in order to facilitate lesson planning. An instructor will typically use the platform to teach in groups of 12 to 24 students for collaborative learning. Students, always with adult supervision, build hands-on projects utilizing a minimum of four senses in each lesson; some lessons such as Fizzing Lemon utilize all five senses. STEAM on Demand is specifically designed for differentiation for student subgroups utilizing UDL strategies. General education and special education teachers have provided input into set design, vocabulary enhancements and checks for understanding through discussion. For example, vocabulary words appear in large print on the screen with visuals as the scientist is describing the key word.
Excerpts from Pew Research Center"
Using a broad definition of the STEM workforce, women make up half (50%) of all U.S. workers in STEM occupations, though their presence varies widely across occupational clusters and educational levels. Women account for the majority of healthcare practitioners and technicians but are underrepresented in several other STEM occupational clusters, particularly in computer jobs and engineering.
Black and Hispanic workers continue to be underrepresented in the STEM workforce. Blacks make up 11% of the U.S. workforce overall but represent 9% of STEM workers, while Hispanics comprise 16% of the U.S. workforce but only 7% of all STEM workers. And among employed adults with a bachelor’s degree or higher, blacks are just 7% and Hispanics are 6% of the STEM workforce.
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