STEM Sports® has just recently began offering a free curriculum called Buckets & Balls. In this interactive activity, children throw and/or bounc...
Kids are better students when their activity levels are high
The average child over the age of six needs at least an hour of physical activity per day. Encouraging kids to have an active lifestyle at a young age...
Educators Turning to Disguised Learning
Disguised learning, also known as stealth learning, is the process of using games and other creative methods to teach young students. The goal is to p...
Foreign-born children and their engagement in STEM
Non-native born individuals play a huge role in the United State’s STEM workforce. In 2015, foreign-born people made up approximately 24 percent of ...
The Future of STEM Based Jobs
Within the next decade, approximately 80 percent of all jobs are going to be in the STEM field. Despite the rise in demand for these jobs, degrees in ...
Reimagining the Student-Teacher Relationship
By Donovan Burriss and Kasey Kaler Every kid needs a champion. Someone they can look up to and think, “wow, I want to be just like them when I grow ...
Girls in STEM: Building Motivation and Competence through Sport
By Donovan Burriss and Kasey Kaler The workforce of professionals concentrated in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) is imperati...
Beaumont Independent School District campers turn sports into science
Story via Liz Teitz of Beaumont Enterprise on June 29, 2018 In a quiet classroom Thursday morning, Logan Castille and Aiden Reed adjusted the angle of...
From Plants to Project-Based Learning; Building the Foundation for STEM Sports
By Donovan Burriss on June 26, 2018 At the onset, I prompted this question to my 3rd-6th graders, “can you guys tell me what you think STEM is?&...
Students learn academic skills through STEM Sports programs in Glasgow, KY
Story via Will Perkins of Glasgow Daily Times on June 19, 2018 Dasia Driver, a rising seventh-grader at Glasgow Middle School, held one end of a measu...