For the first few months of my research and involvement in the whole homeschool thing I kept hearing the term "STEAM". It was driving me nuts. There were whole websites devoted to this thing called STEAM but oddly, it did take a while for me to find a definition Note to STEAM providers... put a definition on your websites please! Yes, STEAM may seem a simple and almost ridiculously basic thing to those who have been around the homeschool traps for a bit... Like... Duh! But when you're a homeschooling newby there are SOOO many things you don't know, and it's the simple things that people don't think to tell you about. I'm also really crap at remembering to google these things, so it probably takes me longer to catch on! LOL So I finally figured it out and now I'm breaking it down and putting it our there for those, who, like me, are wading through brand new terminology and concepts and trying to piece it all together. In my words, STEAM is the term for lessons which are leveraging project-based learning across multiple core disciplines/subjects. In my (eventual) googling I discovered some variations, but here's the mnemonic for you:
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