STEAM Curricula and Projects

All of the following projects were created and written by myself. Unless otherwise stated, all material posted here is shared under Creative Commons License Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. You are free to use, distribute, and adapt this work--with attribution--for any personal or not-for-profit educational use. All commercial use is prohibited.

Oct 11, 2022

Evolution of the Future

This assignment draws upon the science fiction sub-genre of Speculative Biology, which plays with the natural link between an organism's...

Oct 4, 2022

"Forgotten" Scientists Dia de los Muertos Ofrenda Project

One of the through-line messages of all my science classes is, "Science is Collaborative." This project draws attention to the...

Aug 23, 2022

Cool House for a Hot World

I created this project as a way to incorporate more engineering design thinking into my general curriculum. In it, students engage...

Aug 20, 2022

Enzyme BFF Keychains

This was actually the very first STEAM-Crafts activity I created, for my first AP Bio class right before the pandemic hit. Using...

Aug 20, 2022

DNA Macrame

Macrame is one of the many fiber arts I picked up during the pandemic in a big way. The joke around my school is that I will macrame...

Aug 20, 2022

Petri Dish Embroidery

Much of my current project-based curriculum activities stem from teaching during distance-learning at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic....