Oh, how life has changed since Y2K. While it’s been just two decades since the start of the new millennium, advancements in technology seem to have taken society light years into the future. To ensure Canyons students remain at the forefront of understanding the world around them, STEM-related lessons have been built into the school day at every grade level.
In the latest episode of Connect Canyons, Chandra Martz, a CSD Digital Teaching and Learning Specialist, and Cynthia Lloyd, CSD’s Elementary STEM Specialist, discuss how science, technology, engineering and mathematics lessons, plus instruction on how those subjects dovetail with the arts, are being implemented in Canyons classrooms and beyond. The conversation comes in time for National STEM/STEAM Day, celebrated every year on Nov. 8.
When STEM was first introduced into education in the early 2000s, it…