Visit the BCPS EcoGuide for all things environmental! You will find resources, contacts, lesson plans, activities, field trips, and so much more.

Located in South Florida’s diverse socio-economic and cultural community, the South Florida STEM Ecosystem (BASE) strives to increase the focus on STEM opportunities, engagement, and benefits within the tri-county area. This collection of diversified participants works collaboratively to define STEM pathways, support local STEM initiatives within programs, and provide a network of mentorship and volunteerism opportunities between the school districts and local businesses that utilize STEM.

For more information, visit http://basestem.org/ or email info@basestem.org or browardstem@browardschools.com

Please visit the Environmental Initiatives site resources at https://www.browardschools.com/Page/52866 

Thank you for supporting the STEM + Computer Science (STEM+CS) programs and initiatives.  We couldn’t offer the level of support that we provide our teachers and students without your generous contributions!  To donate by credit card please visit:  https://browardedfoundation.org/browardstem

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STEAM Mystery Bag and Coding and Robotic STEM Challenges K-12

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Join our Viva Engage Groups and keep up to date info that we send out: 
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• STEM STEAM STREAM SCREAM SECME
• BrowardCODES
• Environmental Stewardship

Future of Education Technology Conference (FETC) (January 17, 2020):
Hands On STEAM Application of Computer Science
Lead Presenter: Rebecca Malones
Co-Presenter: Sheryl Arriola
2020 Makey Makey Activities Links
Makey Makey Interactive Board Activities

Florida League of Middle School (October 18, 2019): 

PBL Portal - Solving Authentic Problems in Middle Grades and Green PBL Opportunities, Recognition and Rewards
Presenters: Sheryl Arriola, Rebecca Malones, Cindy Griffin
Presentation: STEM + CS PBL Environmental Presentation
Handouts: 
2019 Broward PBL Portal SciStater one pager rev 05102019.pdf
2019 Environmental PBL Resources.pdf
2019 Projects on Broward Portal.pdf

Redefining the Block: Minecraft in the Curriculum
Presenters: Erik Leitner, Belinda Beckford
Presentation: education.minecraft.net
Handout: https://browardschools.instructure.com/courses/123/pages/minecraft-education-edition

2019 Gifted Symposium (September 26, 2019)

Handouts: Minecraft Info and Lever with Linkage Activity; Minecraft Info and Simple Lever Activity; Seed Dispersal Engineering Design Project

JDETF Presentation (April 6, 2019) - Empower Your Content with STEM & Computer Science Presenters: Erik Leitner, Sheryl Arriola, and Rebecca Malones
Handout: JDETF Handout (STEM+CS Integration)
Micro in Makerspace presentation: bit.ly/microbitsway
Makey Makey Presentation
Presenter Information

2018 Gifted Symposium (Nov. 2, 2018) - "Empower your Content with STEM & Computer Science"  - Lisa Milenkovic, Sheryl Arriola, Debra Thomas, Annmargareth Marousky, Cynthia Griffin, Erik Leitner, Rebecca Malones, Justin Feller – Applied Learning – All Levels, SCI, STEM - STEM, especially computer science, is integrated throughout every aspect of daily life, yet often, in isolation in the school day. Engage students and empower your lessons by integrating STEM and computer science into all content areas. This presentation will provide hands-on centers that demonstrate simple and inexpensive ways to engage and enrich students in content through explorations in STEM and computer science. Explore augmented reality, computer coding, robotics, and sensory integration in English language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, art, music physical education. Also included are tips for deliberate attention to empathy and social-emotional learning opportunities through the integration of design principles.  Participants at the Gifted Symposium are shown on the right playing with the banana piano and cereal box guitar with Makey Makey.

• Brochure
• Handouts provided at the symposium