STEM Vocab/Which Piece of STEM?

What does STEM stand for?

• Science, Technology, Engineering, Math

• Science, Teaching, Engineering, Math

• Math, Engineering, Technology, Science

Is the knowledge about the natural world that is based on facts learned through experiments and observations.

• Math

• Technology

• Science

• Engineering

Anything (product or process) created by people to help solve a problem.

• Science

• Technology

• Engineering

• Math

•The application of science and mathematics to design a technology to solve a problem.

• Technology

• Science

• Teaching

• Engineering

Is the science that studies and explains numbers, quantities, measurements, and the relationships between them.

• Science

• Math

• English

• Invention

Someone who uses his or her creativity and knowledge of math and science to design technologies that solve problems.

• Teaching

• Engineering

• Engineer

• Scientist

The creation of technology that has never existed before.

• Project

• Invention

• Innovation

• Creation

Is an improvement to a product, process, or system that has not previously existed.

• Invention

• Creation

• Project

• Innovation

The process of revisiting steps in the engineering design process to improve upon an engineering design.

• Iterative

• Invention

• Innovation

• Project

The steps that engineers use to design technologies to solve problems.

• Engineering Design Process

• Design

• Process

• Engineering