Richard Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity in Education provided a team of four STEM teachers from Royal ISD’s STEM Academy with the opportunity to visit Rice University. They had a blast while they spent time learning about project-based learning!
Royal STEM Academy is a specialty campus that focuses on challenging all learners with a focus on STEM. One major curriculum is called Project Lead the Way (PLTW), where students learn to work through the engineering design process with a focus on creativity and problem solving.
Another recent project-based focus is to increase student achievement in math and science and inspire students by exposing them to real-world problems in an inquiry-based learning environment. This provides students with an innovative program that offers the knowledge and skills needed to solve problems, gather and evaluate evidence, and think critically to prepare them in STEM fields.
Source: Royal STEM Academy Facebook
Blog by: Natalie Bladen, Intern, TXST
