1. Mitchell Brown, Research Librarian for Chemistry and Earth System Sciences, University of California Irvine December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

2.  The Royal Society hopes that the new interactive site will inspire members of the public to see science as part of everyday life and culture. Royal Society president Lord Martin Rees, in an announcement for Trailblazing, an online exhibit of 350 years of publishing from Royal Society of Chemistry (December 2, 2009) URL: http://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/Trailblazinghttp://trailblazing.royalsociety.org/ December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

3.  STEM Issues for Librarians – collecting, disseminating, integrating resources  NSDL (National Science Digital Library) http://nsdl.org/ http://nsdl.org/  DLESE (Digital Library for Earth System Education) http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp http://www.dlese.org/library/index.jsp December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

4.  Right now, in classrooms across America, our members are preparing the next generation of scientists, engineers, technologists and mathematicians and helping all children to develop critical thinking and reasoning skills.  Letter to Arne Duncan, UC Secretary of Education, January 9, 2009 URL: http://portal.acs.org/portal/fileFetch/C/WPCP_011731/pdf/ WPCP_011731.pdf http://portal.acs.org/portal/fileFetch/C/WPCP_011731/pdf/ WPCP_011731.pdf December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

5. ◦ Interdisciplinary Research and Integrated Content ◦ Flexible and Agile Career Paths for students and advanced learners ◦ Information Expansion – creation and availability of raw data  Learning Concepts and Information Literacy  Teaching Problem Solving and Lifelong Learning Techniques ◦ Building Sustainable Societies December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

6. ◦ The Realization of Globalization and the Global Economy – The World is the Market ◦ STEM Teaching Issues for International and Domestic Students ◦ Interaction Skills of Teamwork, Communications, and Public Policy  Example: Abrupt Climate Change and Global Warming  The issues involves primary science, public policy, legal issues, engineering applications, social discourse. December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program

7.  Mitchell C. Brown, MLIS  Research Librarian for Chemistry, Earth System Science and Russian Studies University of California Irvine  Email: mcbrown@uci.edumcbrown@uci.edu December 4, 2009 Getting to the Root of STEM Education: A Joint SEAL-South and LILi Program