This week’s item of the week is Robot Turtles, a board game for kids age 4 and up! Parents and children can use Robot Turtles to play together while learning key programming principles. This is a great game for parents or teachers to introduce children to programming and help them develop critical thinking skills.
Month: May 2019
STEM Center Summer Activities
The SIUE STEM Center has a busy summer planned, and we wanted to share the various STEM programming that we have coming up. REU – For the third year, the STEM Center, in partnership with the Illinois Natural History Survey, will be hosting a National Science Foundation Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) site. In June, ten…
Inge Lehmann
Inge Lehmann was a Danish seismologist and geophysicist. She grew up in Copenhagen, where she attended a pedagogically progressive high school and later want on to the University of Copenhagen and the University of Cambridge to study mathematics. Lehmann received a candidatus magisterii, a master of the arts degree, in physical science and mathematics. She…
Item of the Week
This Magnetic Skull is the perfect tool to teach students, or yourself, about the 22 bones in the human skull. With the use of this skull, students can learn how to identify the individual bones of the skull and their intricate relationships to one another. The skull has built in magnets to help guide the…
Environmental Science Research Academy
The SIUE STEM Center and Environmental Sciences Department are offering a week-long, free Summer Research Academy for local high school students. This is a great opportunity for students interested in STEM and environmental science to conduct original research! Through this research academy, students will investigate how different insect populations react to pesticide treatments. They will…