Photography - CREATE for STEM Institute

Lucas Project Meeting

CREATE for STEM Institute is receiving a grant from the George Lucas Education Foundation to bring project-based learning to more classrooms across the nation. This photo was taken at one of the advisory board meetings, where collaborators got together to discuss project goals.

Lucas Project Meeting

Teaching Science Outdoors

Elementary teachers gathered at MSU's Kellogg Biological Station during the summer to learn about NGSS and taking the classroom outdoors.

Experiment in Progress

A student researcher prepares a piece of a machine for an experiment.

Wingspan Activity

Middle school students measure each others' wingspans in an activity that helps them understand genes and traits.

Chatty Squirrel

MSU is known for its campus squirrel community. This fella was feeling especially chatty.

Hereditary Traits Activity

Middle school students work together to do a bead activity that helps them understand how traits are passed from parent to child.

Statue

Featured on MSU's campus.

NGSS Workshop

Elementary teachers get an introduction to the Next Generation Science Standards.

Gene Activity

Students use beads and markers to do an activity that helps them understand genes and heredity.

Leadership

A student leads a discussion during a CREATE professional development opportunity at Kellogg Biological Station.

Working Together

Students receive instruction and work together on an activity.

Emphatic Hands

The speaker gestures with his hands during a meeting.

This page features photographs taken while interning with CREATE for STEM Institute. At CREATE, I serve as a Communications Intern; as such, I work to provide visual content for the Institute's website, publications, displays, etc. In this gallery, you will find pictures of staff meetings and curriculum discussions, professional development courses, projects associated with CREATE, pictures of Michigan State University's campus, and other STEM-related images.