Teaching STEM Through Fairy Tales

As you'll note from pretty much all of my other posts, I'm a huge proponent of STEM  in the younger grades.  So, connecting STEM through literature is a natural extension (and quite a powerful tool).  This connection helps to improve reading skills, yet also enhance creativity and critical thinking skills.

In this series, we will further examine the connection between literature- specifically fairy tales- and STEM.  Each week we'll take a look at a favorite fairy tale, make a connection to STEM and tie each one to the NGSS Engineering Design Standards.

Join me next week for a look at our first fairy tale!