Explore the 2019 Chevron STEM Education Award Lessons

Fabricating turtles to understand turtles

This activity includes a “hands on” strategy that mixes the use of two different digital fabrication tools (laser cut and 3D printing) and silicon mold, to produce replicas of animals…

Fabstory

Make the Fabstory Blocks Initial story. Tell to the participants an initial story using the Fabstory blocks Technique 1: What would happen if…. On a brainstorming ask 3 questions than…

Open Source Resources for Teaching Synthetic Biology in Low-Resource Settings

Despite the wealth of teaching resources available on the internet, there is a lack of good quality resources for teaching synthetic biology concepts in low resource settings. At the same…

Uncovering a Hidden History – The Lives of African Americans During Reconstruction

Students will respond to research about the lives of African Americans during the Reconstruction era. This era was a critical time that laid the groundwork for many social issues we…

IN THIS COLLECTION

This collection includes 4 lessons from our first, second, and tied third place winners.  These lessons cover ecology, history, science, and the arts.  The lessons were designed for students in grades 7-12 for communities all around the world.  The educators in the collection teach in formal and informal education settings in Brazil, Mexico, Ghana, and the United States.

about THE CHEVRON STEM AWARD

Chevron has partnered with the Fab Foundation since 2016 to celebrate educators using STEM and digital fabrication for student learning.  There have been over 160 submissions for the STEM Award to date, and Chevron has awarded $40,000 to educators who are creating lessons and activities for their students and sharing them with the Fab Foundation network worldwide.

 

Chevron and the Fab Foundation are using this award to highlight people in the network who are making a change and doing amazing work to impact the lives and livelihoods of children and youth around the world.


Chevron is committed to investing in STEM education to encourage students and community members to be the innovators and makers of the future.”

Janet Auer, Advisor, Education and Corporate Programs at Chevron

RECENT COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTED LESSONS

FCH – Taking care of myself

This activity is part of the FabConnectHer project, dedicated to empowering future female innovators by providing inspiration, skills, and networks to make a meaningful impact in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…

January 31, 2025
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FCH – Electronic circuits with conductive dough

This activity is part of the FabConnectHer project, dedicated to empowering future female innovators through inspiration, skills and networks to make an impact in the field of STEAM through education,…

January 30, 2025
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Digital Fabrication and Programming

Students create a design that has a repeating element using TurtleStitch, PEmbroider, Tinkercad Codeblocks, then embroider or print it

January 29, 2025

UV Resin Lens Challenge

In this lesson, students will be introduced to the basics of microscopy, the concept of magnification, and learn and apply the lens and magnification equations. Students will engage in hands-on…

January 28, 2025
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FCH – Quiz Board

This activity is part of the FabConnectHer project, dedicated to empowering future female innovators by providing inspiration, skills, and networks to make a meaningful impact in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering,…

January 24, 2025

FCH – FUN GEOMETRY (Building Geodesic Domes)

This activity is part of the FabConnectHer project, dedicated to empowering future female innovators through inspiration, skills and networks to make an impact in the field of STEAM through education,…

January 24, 2025
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Smart Plant Care System

Smart Plant Care System Nurture Your Plants, Effortlessly  

January 22, 2025

Desk Calender

This series of lessons will take you thhrough how to make a Desk Calender using the Brother ScanNcut.

January 13, 2025

Lantern

This series of lessons will take you through step by step how to make a Tea Light Lantern using the Brother ScanNCut.      

January 13, 2025

Shadow Theatre

Lessons with 5 graders about shadow theatre. Learners listen short Fairy-tale “The Foolish Man” by famous Armenian writter Hovhannes Tumanyan, Draw an illustrative picture of the Fairy-tale, they can draw…

January 11, 2025

Spin Your Way to Reading Adventure

This lesson is designed to help students review the various genres they’ve learned about and to create some excitement about reading outside their comfort zone. Prior to this lesson students…

January 3, 2025
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Social Emotional Learning + Stencils

Students develop a list of things they for which they are grateful. Once created, students chose one or more designs to visually illustrate their gratitude using a graphic design program.…

January 3, 2025
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Project Planning with Physical Computing

Students plan and create their own whole-class whole-term project using Circuit Playgrounds and the Digital Fabrication tools available to them.

December 30, 2024

Magnetic Code Poetry

Create poetry from magnetic pieces that have scraps of code on them, such as ++ *= for ( and { as well as more usual poetry words that are code…

December 28, 2024
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Make a statement

In this lesson, students will use the engineering design process to make an item that promotes an environmental or social justice message. The students will research an area of interest…

December 13, 2024
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understanding plant life cycle

During this lesson, I showed students the life cycle of a plant, using the example of an apple, and since the students had no experience with digital production, I showed…

December 11, 2024
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STANDARDS-ALIGNED

Community contributed lessons aligned with Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)  offer formal educators innovative pathways to teaching content knowledge. The Fab I Can Statements are a resource to develop technology-literate learning progressions to align with content standards.

FAB TESTED

Periodically lessons are adapted and tested by the Fab Foundation team based on a call for submissions from fabbers, educators, and makers.  Our inaugural set of lessons for the SCOPES-DF project were Fab Tested in 2016 and are tagged Fab Tested on the website.

OPEN-SOURCE VALUES

Lessons are distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC license, that permits free use and re-purposing by others.