Taking STEM Outside of the Classroom
by Adam Stone
Originally Published in TEACH Magazine
A 7th Grade science teacher at Marshall Simonds Middle School in Boston, MA, Tammy Scelsi took her students out of the classroom and into a giant box.
Actually, it's a 22x10-foot shipping container, dubbed the Curiosity Cube. Life science company, MilliporeSigma developed it and makes it available for free to educators. It's a mobile lab packed with hands-on learning opportunities and staffed by experts.
"Theres a 3D printing station where they were printing pieces for a robotic assembly. There is a gestural interface technology where kids can take apart a skeletal image of a skull and look at the brain, just by waving their hands in the air. And they had some microscopy, looking at cancerous brain cells and healthy brain cells," Scelsi said.
