JANUARY 23, 2018 – Thanks to the Lower Merion Library System Director’s Office, the expertise of LMLS Technology Librarians and our Children Librarians, each of our library Junior Rooms received some wonderful materials to expand our STEM programming. What is STEM?
“STEM is a curriculum based on the idea of educating students in four specific disciplines — science, technology, engineering and mathematics — in an interdisciplinary and applied approach. Rather than teach the four disciplines as separate and discrete subjects, STEM integrates them into a cohesive learning paradigm based on real-world applications.”
What is STEM Education?
By Elaine J. Hom, LiveScience Contributor | February 11, 2014 05:16pm ET
https://www.livescience.com/43296-what-is-stem-education.html
“[Science] is more than a school subject, or the periodic table, or the properties of waves. It is an approach to the world, a critical way to understand and explore and engage with the world, and then have the capacity to change that world…”
President Barack Obama, March 23, 2015
Quote from
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math: Education for Global Leadership
US Department of Education Website
https://www.ed.gov/stem
You will have to drop by the library to meet Cody the Code-a-pillar, our new friend that is geared towards children ages 3-6 to help them learn the basics of coding.
Fisher-Price Think & Learn Code-a-pillar http://www.fisher-price.com/en_US/brands/think-and-learn/index.html
We also received littleBits education STEAM Student sets and Code Kits.
https://littlebits.cc/education
The goodness did not stop here. Additional materials for the juniors included Star Wars Droid Inventor kits, Wonder Robots named Dot and Dash
and K’nex building sets
Lower Merion Junior Departments are looking forward to sharing these wonderful fun and educational items with our patrons in the very near future!
Darlene Davis
Head of Junior Dept, LMLS