Root & STEM is a free print and online STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) resource to support K–12 educators in teaching digital skills. Each issue features articles, activities, and lesson plans with a specific focus on STEAM education through creativity.
Magazine
Powered By Root & STEM
The Powered By Root & STEM: Grade 10 Computer Studies edition is a special issue under the Root & STEM…
Root & STEM: Issue 10
This issue of Root & STEM explores the ways in which we can foster curiosity and problem-solving skills through cutting-edge…
Root & STEM: Issue 9
This issue of Root & STEM explores the ways in which climate change is affecting animals, humans, and the environment…
Podcast
Building Digital Citizens
In this episode of Root & STEM, Beth, a classroom teacher from Cambridge Bay, NU, Beth Sampson shares her journey…
Beth Sampson: Innovating Education in Nunavut
In this episode of Root & STEM, Beth, a classroom teacher from Cambridge Bay, NU, Beth Sampson shares her journey…
Vivian Lee: Navigating Digital Citizenship
Vivian Lee, Director of Education and Strategy for the Open Digital Literacy and Access Network (ODLAN), discusses the organization’s mission…
Lesson Plans
Fake Voices Versus Deepfakes
Students explore deepfakes and create a fake voices app using the MIT App Inventor. Learners also explore how deepfakes can pose…
Introduction to Machine Learning – Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Students learn about natural language processing (NLP) and how it works. They also learn to apply the rules of NLP…
Teachable Machine – Image Recognition
Students learn how computers can process and categorize images. They program and train a computer to recognize certain images and…
Activities
Snakes and Ladders: Online Safety
Navigating the internet can feel tricky sometimes, much like a game of Snakes and Ladders. But in this version of…
Can You Hack It?
Can you Hack it?
STEAM SCIENCE: Spin and Win(d)
The premise of this experiment is that wind around us can be harnessed,…
Games
Rover Fleet Luna
In Rover Fleet Luna you will be an autonomous rover that has awakened alone on the moons surface. You will…
Isumakkaq
Isumakkaq is a game about guessing a secret word. The player will have…
Sea Tangle
Sea Tangle allows users to explore a kelp forest off the coast of…
Must Read
The Impact behind “Indigenuity”
When Dawn Pratt sees a tipi, she also sees a spaceship. “It’s the most aerodynamic shape,” says Pratt, a member…
Making Space for the Natural Environment
Learn how the Lindsay Makerspace offers opportunity to emphasize the role of technology in supporting environmental stewardship.
Algonquin College Joins the Maker Movement
The MakerSpace at the college’s Ottawa campus is a place where students, faculty members, researchers and the community at large…
