Resources
STEAM Books for Kids
Ages 0-12
The Kid Scientist Handwriting Activity Book Dr. Diana K. Lockwood-Bordaña
The STEAM Kids Guide 2 Awesome! Dr. Diana K. Lockwood
More Than a Princess Delanda Coleman
The Bad Seed Jory John & Pete Oswald
Science Verse Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Cece Loves Science Vashti Harrison
Scientist, Scientist, Who Do You See?
Chris Ferrie
A Computer Called Katherine Suzanne Slade
Iggy Peck, Architect Andrea Beaty
Rosie Revere, Engineer Andrea Beaty
Ada Twist, Scientist Andrea Beaty
Ask a Scientist Robert Winston
Gutsy Girls Go For Science Paleontologists with STEM Projects for Kids Karen Bush Gibson
Space Case by Stuart Gibb
Let's Hatch Chicks! by Lisa Steele
A Drop of Water by Walter Wick
Thunder Pug by Kim Norman
The Rain Stomper by Addie Boswell
Clark the Shark by Bruce Hale
Pumpkin Circle by George Levenson
If I was the sunshine by Julie Fogliano + Loren Long
Jobs if You Like Building Things by Charlotte Guillain
Crafty Science by Jane Bull
Jada Jones: Sleepover Science by Kelly Starling Lyons
Disney Moana: IDEA LAB by Niki Ahrens
Articles for Researchers & Educators
On the Lesson Plan: Make Stuff. Fail. Learn While You’re At It
Fundamentals of the Arts Integration & STEAM Approach
https://educationcloset.com/arts-integration-steam-approach/
Libraries, Makerspaces, and STEAM Labs: What’s the Difference? https://educationcloset.com/2017/01/10/libraries-makerspaces-steam/
Arts-Infused Project-Based Learning: Crafting Beautiful Work https://www.edutopia.org/practice/arts-infused-project-based-learning-crafting-beautiful-work
Makerspaces in Schools: Creating STEAM Connections http://ideas.demco.com/blog/makerspaces-in-schools/
Developing a Participatory Approach to Fostering Creativity Through Education http://www.creativitypost.com/education/developing_a_participatory_approach_to_fostering_creativity_through_educati
Designing a School MakerSpace
https://www.edutopia.org/blog/designing-a-school-makerspace-jennifer-cooper
Why so few? Women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics http://www.aauw.org/research/why-so-few/
Makerspaces Necessitate Greater Mindfulness of Gender Bias in STEM https://www.educationdive.com/news/makerspaces-necessitate-greater-mindfulness-of-gender-bias-in-stem/525932/
Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964782
Keeping girls in STEM: 3 barriers, 3 solutions
https://www.edutopia.org/article/keeping-girls-stem-3-barriers-3-solutions
STEM gender equity: Supporting girls in STEM without diminishing the boys https://www.firstinspires.org/community/inspire/stem-gender-equity
This is what STEM looks like! How to get and keep girls engaged in science, technology, engineering and math. https://www.wfco.org/file/WFCO-STEM-Guide_complete.pdf
A state-by-state policy analysis of STEM education for K-12 public schools https://scholarship.shu.edu/dissertations/2297
A brief history of STEM and STEAM from an inadvertent insider http://scholarship.claremont.edu/steam/vol3/iss1/7
How our education system undermines gender equity: And why culture change-not policy-may be the solution https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brown-center-chalkboard/2018/04/23/how-our-education-system-undermines-gender-equity/
Schools and closing the gender gap related to STEM
http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu /pdfdocs/gengap.pdf
Why girls beat boys at school and lost them at the office
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/opinion/sunday/girls-school-confidence.html
What is STEAM? https://educationcloset.com/steam/what-is-steam/
Why STEM education must begin in early childhood. www.unlv.edu/news /article/issues-why-stem-education-must-begin-early-childhood-education.
STEM for all https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2016/02/11/stem-all
How to start a STEAM program in your school https://www.eschoolnews.com/files/2018/06/STEMProgramWhitepaper-v2.pdf
STEM vs. STEAM: Do the arts belong?
https://www.edweek.org/tm/articles/2014/11/18/ctq-jolly-stem-vs-steam.html
The more gender equality, the fewer women in STEM https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/the-more-gender-equality-the-fewer-women-in-stem/553592/
How educators can help close the STEM gender gap. https://education.cu-portland.edu/blog/classroom-resources/educators-steam-gender-gap/
Countries with less gender equity have more women in STEM—huh? https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/voices/countries-with-less-gender-equity-have-more-women-in-stem-huh/
Decoding the culture of tech: Philly educators rewiring the way youth engage technology
Tough facts: Why we need diversity in design and engineering http://www.stemgem.com/blog/tough-facts-why-we-need-diversity-in-design-and-engineering
Women in STEM: A gender gap to innovation 2017 update http://www.esa.doc.gov/reports/women-stem-2017-update
Making STEAM education more equitable and accessible: CEISMC programs and curricula make STEAM opportunities more accessible to underrepresented students https://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/news/making-steam-education-more-equitable-and-accessible
Young, southern women’s perceptions of STEM careers: examining science, technology, engineering & mathematics as a gendered construct. https://search-proquestcom.pallas2.tcl.sc.edu/pqdtlocal1006876/docview/1652480604/7E514D97ACC24D67PQ/2?accountid=13965
STEM 2026: A vision for innovation in STEM education https://innovation.ed.gov/files/2016/09/AIR-STEM2026_Report_2016.pdf
Deconstructing gender stereotypes ‘key’ to girls’ success https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/sponsored-content/1509080/deconstructing-gender-stereotypes-key-to-girls-success-articleisfree/
Hate in schools: An in-depth look
https://www.edweek.org/ew/projects/hate-in-schools.html
Increasing gender equity in elementary school
https://www.edutopia.org/article/increasing-gender-equity-elementary-school
How one makerspace is meeting students’ social-emotional needs https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/sel-makerspace/
Books for Adults
Participatory Creativity: Introducing Access and Equity to the Creative Classroom by Edward P. Clapp
Maker-Centered Learning: Empowering Young People to Shape Their Worlds
by Edward P. Clapp, Jennifer Q. Ryan & Shari Tishman
Future Wise: Educating Our Children for a Changing World by David Perkins
Making Thinking Visible by Ron Ritchhart and Mark Church
Creating Cultures of Thinking: The 8 Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools by Ron Ritchart
The App Generation by Howard Gardner and Katie Davis
The Rich & the Rest of Us: A Poverty Manifesto by tavis SMILEY + cornell WEST
Truth, Beauty and Goodness Reframed by Howard Gardner
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
MAKERLAB: 28 Super Cool Projects by Jack Challoner
Women in Science: 50 Fearless Pioneers Who Changed the World by Rachel Ignotofsky
Why Race and Culture Matter in Schools by Tyrone C. Howard
Worlds of Making: Best Practices for Establishing a Makerspace for Your School by Laura Fleming
Ethnicity and Race: Making Identities in a Changing World by Stephen Cornell & Douglas Hartmann
The Curriculum Studies Reader 5th Edition Edited by David Flinders and Stephen Thornton
Ethnicity and race: Making identities in a changing world by Cornell & Hartmann
Developing mindful students, skillful thinkers, thoughtful schools by Martin Buoncristiani & Patricia Buoncristiani
Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education by Cameron, Daga, and Outhred
Those Kids, Our Schools: Race and Reform in an American High School by Shayla Reese Griffin
Exemplary STEM programs: Designs for Success Edited by Robert Yager and Herbert Brunkhorst
STEM gems: How 44 women shine in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, and how you can too! by Stephanie Espy
The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation
STEAM lab for kids: 52 creative hands-on projects for exploring science, technology, engineering, art and math by Liz Lee Heinecke
Women in science: 50 fearless pioneers who change the world by Rachel Ignotofsky
A guide to gender: The social justice advocate’s handbook by Sam Killerman
Educating African American Students: And How Are the Children? Gloria Swindler Boutte
STEM & STEAM next-gen program: Lesson plans, STEM career focus, engineering design process, next generation science standards, strategies and activities K-5 teachers and educators by Sumita Mukherjee
Handbook on Measuring Equity in Education by UNESCO
A Guide for Gender Equality in Teacher Education & Policy Practices, UNESCO
No-Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel and Tina Bryson
Reign of Error by Diana Ravitch
A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule The Future by Daniel Pink
Teaching to Transgress by bell hooks
Mindful Teaching and Teaching Mindfulness by Schoeberlein
The Articulation of Curriculum & Pedagogy for a Just Society: Advocacy, Artistry, and Activism Edited by Sheri Leafgren, Brian Schultz, Michael O'Malley, Larry Johnson, Jeanne Brady, & Audrey Denitith