Learning Blade Offers Comprehensive Web and Classroom-Based STEM Learning for Students

Online Missions: Learning Blade'sonline STEM missions provide student-ready, interactive modules that show STEM careers in the context of solving people and community-centered problems. This process is proven effective in building a student’s interest in STEM, developing awareness of STEM career opportunities, and reinforcing academic standards and skills.Students can engage in a variety of standards-based, literacy-focused missions to solve a problem such as helping an injured dolphin, building an orphanage after a major earthquake, or solving energy and transportation needs in a new city.

Design Thinking Lessons: Students use design thinking methodology to solve complex problems through brainstorming, collaboration, and the creative exploration of new possibilities. These problems extend the problems of the online missions, and allow the student to come up with creative solutions for the issues identified within each mission. Students can design a weather resistant house or prototype a car, among other opportunities for hands-on learning.

3-D Printing Lessons: 3-D printed experiments and projects demonstrate STEM principles and provide students experience with turning designs into physical items. However instead of simply making static objects, Learning Blade emphasizes creating objects that can be used for further scientific investigations that are related to the problem identified within each mission, such as designing and creating an energy efficient wind turbine or functional prosthetic hand.

Parent Exercises - To foster collaboration and communication between parents and students, Learning Blade has created downloadable handouts designed to foster conversations at home. Each exercise includes simple questions that anyone can answer, additional career-related questions that encourage students to research, and simple home experiments to build on the students' learning from the mission challenges.

Learning Blade's comprehensive program provides students an engaging opportunity to develop literacy skills, practice the design process, and learn about STEM careers specific to their interests. Said one student from Lakeland Middle Preparatory School in Shelby County, TN, "Learning Blade helps me learn things about various career opportunities that I had never heard of before. I am glad that we use this program to enhance my learning."

Register for your free Learning Blade account today and please feel free to reach out to Josh Sneideman (joshua@learningblade.com) for more information about implementing the Learning Blade platform within your classroom.