Root & STEM is a free print and online STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) resource to support K–12 educators in teaching digital skills. Each issue features articles, activities, and lesson plans with a specific focus on STEAM education through creativity.
Latest Issue
Root & STEM: Issue 12
This issue of Root & Stem explores the relationship between cultural heritage, language and innovation, from the point of view of both youth and elders. Those Inuit youth and Elders all have their own perspective around language when it comes to identity, tradition and community. This issue shows the reader how Indigenous language preservation restores connections, shapes worldviews, inspires innovation, and nurtures community resilience.
Magazine
Root & STEM: Issue 12
This issue of Root & Stem explores the relationship between cultural heritage, language and innovation, from the point of view…
Root & STEM: Issue 11
The theme for this issue of Root & Stem is Solar Power, and we take you all across the country…
Powered By Root & STEM
The Powered By Root & STEM: Grade 10 Computer Studies edition is a special issue under the Root & STEM…
Latest Podcast
Brandon Bunnie: Growth Through Gaming
Ampere’s Interactive Game Design Lead, Brandon Bunnie, sits at the intersection of storytelling, technology and culture, making games that invite players to explore language, make mistakes and find their own way forward. Brandon met up with Ampere’s Digital Media Specialist John Stewart to chat about his work.
Podcast
Brandon Bunnie: Growth Through Gaming
Ampere’s Interactive Game Design Lead, Brandon Bunnie, sits at the intersection of storytelling, technology and culture, making games that invite…
Building Digital Citizens
In this episode of Root & STEM, Beth, a classroom teacher from Cambridge Bay, NU, Beth Sampson shares her journey…
Beth Sampson: Innovating Education in Nunavut
In this episode of Root & STEM, Beth, a classroom teacher from Cambridge Bay, NU, Beth Sampson shares her journey…
Lesson Plans
Showing Respect for Different Cultures
Respect is a positive way of treating or thinking about someone or something. For example, you treat your parents with…
The Medicine Wheel: Finding Your Balance
Students will learn to acknowledge the different aspects of the medicine wheel and be able to convey what balance means…
One Foot High Kick
A traditional Inuit game that tests players’ balance, coordination and power. Players jump off two feet to hit a target,…
Comics
Activities
Take Charge for Change Toolkit
“I’m convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather…
Snakes and Ladders: Online Safety
Navigating the internet can feel tricky sometimes, much like a game of Snakes…
Can You Hack It?
Can you Hack it?
Games
Naqittautit
This experience is a digital Inuktitut keyboard designed to strengthen phonemic awareness and pronunciation skills. Each key produces its corresponding…
Quviasuutiliit
Players are introduced to Inuktitut hockey terminology through an audio-visual challenge system. Each…
Find The Shine
Explore a small community in a future where solar power fuels everything. Learn…
Featured Video Series
Must Read
Making Space for the Natural Environment
Learn how the Lindsay Makerspace offers opportunity to emphasize the role of technology in supporting environmental stewardship.
Using Open Broadcaster Software to Deliver Better Lessons
Virtual teaching comes with many challenges. As is clear to anyone who has watched teachers and young kids try to…
Cree Coding
Colonial constructions—which include programming languages, like Javascript, Python, and HTML—continue to prioritize the interests of Western cultures while disregarding the…
