Skilled inquiry-based elementary teachers who engage students in daily materials-based STEM investigations maintain students’ interests throughout their elementary school experiences. However, for much of the older school age population, science, mathematics and engineering are seen as “cold” subjects that are lacking in emotion and humanity (Heaverlo, 2011; Burke & Mattis, 2007), and by the time students reach early adolescence they have pretty much become disengaged from these STEM subjects (USDOE, 2006; Osborne, Simon, & Collins, 2003).