A common problem of STEM students - STEM in the Middle

Fear of failing and not having the right answer is a common problem of STEM students. Especially if your class is their first STEM experience. In most other courses, students are expected to have the “right” answer. If they are paying attention and working hard, they should be able to get a “good” grade on their assessment, but this is not how STEM works.Failure is a central part of STEM. The foundation for STEM education is the engineering design process. There are many variations of the process but all true engineering processes should be iterative and focus on developing solutions to a problem and then improving the solution. In STEM, students are NOT expected to have a perfect solution on the first try. They may never have a perfect solution. But by going through the process they should develop a solution and determine how they could make the solution even better. This is hard for students to grasp until they experience it Grab this free STEM lesson to introduce your students to en...