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LA STEM STORY DISCIPLINE OUTLINE
The LA STEM Stories provided in the menu below are categorized by general category or focus of the story content: Biological Science, Chemistry and Physical Science, Earth/Environmental Science, Engineering Design/Technology, or Mathematics. Some stories share disciplines so they are cross-referenced.
For all stories, a LA STEM histogram is provided to display the relative degree that each STEM discipline plays in the explorations associated with the story. Each color is indicated by a 1 to 5 rating wheee red=science, yellow=technology, green=engineering, and blue=mathematics.
Not every story or context contains the same degree of emphasis in each of the STEM disciplines. We do not seek to insert or crowbar a discipline where it would not naturally exist. Instead, each story leads the learner to inquire and explore using the necessary skills, content knowledge, and disciplinary heuristic.
LA STEM STORIES and the relative disciplinary emphases are displayed below:
Geology, Minerals, Mining
Atmosphere, chemistry, technology
Ecology, Chemistry, engineering design.
Entomology, Modeling, Animatronics, Population/Scale.
Human Biology, Prosthetics, Simple Machines
Chemistry, polymers, measurement, engineering criteria
Chemical processes, laboratory technology, metric measurement
Achimedes
Simple machines, light, engineering, geometry
Electronics, resistance, conductor
Garfield
Electromagnetism, technology, engineering design
Davenport
Electricity, magnetism, graphing, technology
Mechanics, motors, electronics, coding
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