This document provides an overview of a presentation on STEM and STEMSS education. It begins with defining STEM as Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics education and explains it focuses on problem solving through experiential learning. It then defines STEMSS as integrating the social sciences with STEM disciplines to ensure improvements for human societies. The presentation discusses the importance of STEMSS education, provides learning activities, and shares career information in STEM fields like average earnings and employment growth projections. It aims to promote critical thinking on social issues and showcase potential STEMSS solutions.

1. (A special presentation for local districts)

2. Today’s Agenda
Introduction
What is STEM vs. STEMSS?
Why is important?
Leaning Activities
Q&A / Discussion
Career Information
Assessment

3. What is STEM Education?
It stands for Science, Technology,
Engineering, and Mathematics.
It is designed to create curriculum
through integrating inter-disciplines or
meta-discipline through problem-
solving, discovery, experiential,
exploratory learning, and require
students to actively engage a situation
in order to find its solution.

4. What is STEMSS Education?
The main purpose of STEM education is to
enhance human conditions.
All the disciplines cannot stand along outside
of human societies (AAAS 1990, p. 8).
The integration of STEM and the Social Science
disciplines is pivotal to ensure the long lasting
improvements for human societies.
A broader and interconnected global perspective
tie STEM and the Social Sciences together to
bring forth high quality of work force.
So, STEMSS represents for Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics,
and Social Science.

5. 2010 International Math and Science Test scores

7. Why is STEMSS
important?

8. To see
might NOT be to believe.
Critical Thinking Is Your
Best Powerful Friend !!!
Let us prove it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCKbHz3JuFQ (Stereo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9PZizBDBZw&NR=1&feature=fvwp (fire)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFURD-C94L8 (changing size)

9. What do you see in the
following pictures?

16. What can we do to
decrease illusions and
misjudgment?

17. Take a look at another
group of pictures !!

33. Activity#1-Brainstorming
Use simple technology
to increase our communications and
collaboration
What are the issues and potential
solutions to what you saw?
Try Bubbl to collect thoughts.
http://bubbl.us (3 as a group)

34. What causes Poverty and
what are the potential solutions?
Poverty-
Micro-eyes: Macro-eyes:
Look at individuals A domestic Look at Society
1. Family conditions and global 1.Educational accessibility
2. Personality 2.Job availability
3. Health conditions problem 3. Population
4. Diversity issues 4. Political system
a. Race/Ethnicity, 5. Economic development
b. gender, 6. Technology/ Engineering
c. class, Science 7. Cultural Pattern
d. sexual orientation, 8. Race/Gender and
e. disability Technology other diverse types
5. Born into/ inheritance Engineering of equality
genetics Mathematics 9. History – slavery, wars,
and many other factors…. invasion, conquered
Social Science and may other factors…

35. Propose potential Solutions Via
STEMSS Approach
What are the main reasons that What are the potential solutions to
cause Poverty/Social Inequality? decrease the severity of the problems?
Poverty/
Social Inequality
is a social problem found in
every human society
(Domestic and Global)
What are the roles of Science, Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics and social science (such as sociology,
psychology, political science, diversity, demography…etc.)
to help solve the problems?

36. Activities #2 Open the
Critical Thinking Mind-Eyes

37. Critical Thinking! How to do it?
thinking that does not blindly accept
arguments and conclusions
1. examines assumptions
2. discerns hidden values
3. evaluates evidence
4. assesses conclusions

38. 1. Functional mind-eyes:
A system of interrelated parts that is
relatively stable because each part
has a particular function in society
as a whole.
Manifest functional mind-eye;
Latent functional mind-eye;
Dysfunctional mind-eye.

39. 2. Conflict Mind-Eyes
Open many smaller miraculous
mind- eyes to see social problems
based on Social inequality
(power/money, resources, opportunities,
privileges…etc.).
Such as opening the miracle eye to see
Race/ethnicity issues (Genetics, history, and
biology etc. will involve)
Such as Such as opening the miracle eye to see
Social Class issues (Economics, population,
urbanization, population etc. will involve)
Such as opening the miracle eye to see
gender, sexual orientations and disability issues
Again, biology, Neuro-genetics, political science,
ecology etc. issues will involve.

40. How does sociology make your mind-eyes sharp and see things differently?
Individualism, Capitalism. Representative Democracy. Religiosity, social class,
Diverse population
Social Structures
Revolutionary war,
waves of immigration,
Ascribed
wars against Native (race,/ethnicity gender,
Americans, sexual orientation,
industrialization, social class,
Slavery, Civil War, disability…etc) vs.
Suffrage movement, Achieved status;
WWI, Union Genetics vs.
movement, Great
Depression, WWII,
Civil right movement,
Individual Environment.
Family upbringing,
Korean war, Vietnam education, occupation,
war, oil crunch, gulf peers, media…etc.
wars, war on Iraq…
History Biography

41. Symbolic-interaction Analysis Structural–functional Analysis
1. Dramaturgical A. Look at the whole social
A social structure, or the overall
Analysis- functions of social
World as a stage; event/issue operations. Ask, “How it
Roles and status to be analyzed works?”
involve; B. Or divide into 3
•Sports sub-paradigms
in front of stage; •Internet
behind the stage. a. Manifest function
•Divorce b. Dysfunction
2. Social •War on Iraq/ c. Latent function
Afghanistan
Exchange •Cloning Social-conflict Analysis
Theory- (organs, A. 3 Levels of analysis:
Rational animals,
human a.Individual b. Societal c. Global
calculation of Race, gender, social class,
benefit and cost beings?)
•Pro-life./ sexuality, disabilities…etc
3. Social Pro-choice B. Social institutional
Constructionism •Gun Perspectives
•Death Penalty Economic perspective
Symbols •Shall I live Political Perspective
attaching meaning with my girl Family/Educational Perspective
friend now. Religious Perspective
Environment/Population

42. Education Politics Religion
Organization Socialization
Sport- Media
Family
Football
Technology/
Economy Medicine
Cultural, structural Competition/
and situational cooperation,
factors affecting conflict, social
sport and sport stratification and
experiences social change

43. Symbolic-interaction Analysis Structural–functional Analysis(Macro-level)
(Micro-level)
Dramaturgical Analysis- Social What sportacan do to
society as whole?
World as a stage; Roles and
status involve; in front of stage; event 3 sub-paradigms:
behind the stage.
Sport is a complex face to face
Sports a. Manifest function-
interaction. Prejudice, jealousies, recreation, physical condition,
and ambition are brought to the harmless way of let off steam
field. E.g., In 1947, Jackie Robison b. Dysfunction-not for
understood that million fans and academic ability, drugs, death
white players resented his
presence in the MLB. c. Latent function- foster
The players, spectaculars, the social relationship to creating jobs,
coaches, owners of the teams,, encourage competition
media/sport news reporters,
magazines, commercialism, Social-conflict Analysis (Macro-level)
prayers, national anthem, and the Analysis based on social inequality:
involvement of political leaders.
Conflict based on Gender and Race and
Social Exchange Theory- other categories of inequality analyzed from
Rational calculation of Individual, Societal and Global perspectives
benefit and cost of each social
interaction and transaction. Social institutional analysis
Why people risk the injury, even Socio-economic status (SES)- tennis, golf, skiing are
death to be a pro ball player? expensive, basketball, baseball are accessible to all
Money, fame, or power….etc. income level, which reflect social standing.
Political aspect – the majority of manages,
Constructionism- head coaches, and team owners are still white.
Singing the national Anthem; Family/Educational aspect – more support to male
Mascots, body deco, headgears; children students in sports
End zone dancing, hand Race/Religious Perspective-racial discrimination still
gestures…and so on to construct taints pro sports in the U.S.
meaning. Gender aspect- male dominates sports.
More budgets go to support male sport

44. Activity #3
Review via a Video
A Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hL
Phdjj0Uo (house)

45. Questions and Discussion

46. Career
Information

47. Average Earning and
Employment in
General STEM

48. Average Earning with
Bachelor’s Degree in STEM

49. Employment Growth and
Job Openings in STEM
projected 2004-14

50. A General View of Employment in 2010
Occupational employment and wages report for May 2010

51. Gandhi's Seven Deadly Sins
Mohandas Karamachand Gandhi, one of the most
influential figures in modern social and political
activism, considered these traits to be the most
spiritually perilous to humanity/societies:
1. Wealth without Work
2. Pleasure without Conscience
3. Science without Humanity
4. Knowledge without Character
5. Politics without Principle
6. Commerce without Morality
7. Worship without Sacrifice

52. Have a Wonderful Summer!
Social Science Faculty- Crystal Li-chin Huang
Email: Lhuang@cvtc.edu
Phone: 715-833-6283