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Packaging Design, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School (Book Sample)
Packaging Design outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. As are the other volumes in the series, this book is designed to meet the growing need to infuse r...
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This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. For this disciplinary core idea, we chose a simple lesson focused on soils and the role soils play in plant growth. The lesson starts with students being asked questions about what plants ...
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Introducing a New and Urgent Case for STEM Education
Doing STEM does not need to be difficult for teachers. By helping teachers understand the method for StEMTifying their existing lessons and turning them into STEM lessons, engineering becomes another tool that is helpful and beneficial for students....
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A New Way of Thinking About STEM
Chapters 5 and 6 are included in this book selection. Chapter 5 focuses on StEMT, our way of making sense of STEM as a process. We are not out to challenge the acronym but when you see this term, it is to guide you to a new way of thinking about STEM...
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This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. The engineering design challenge calls for students to develop a technology to separate the materials in a mixture. Devising a means of separation for each type of material will expose stud...
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. What student could resist a lesson that involves a zombie apocalypse? The engineering design challenge of this lesson really ups the excitement level of the studying of a cell. The original lesson st...
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Gobble, Gobble, Toil and Trouble
This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. The Turkey Trot lesson has become very popular in middle school where we cover limiting factors in environments. Using a game for Explore students will interact with the limiting factors on a turkey ...
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. Designing the Super Explore is an engineering design challenge added to an inheritance lesson. Dependent on the grade level and purpose of this lesson, students may need some background knowledge of ...
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. Students are fascinated by strange-looking animals that have adapted to live in environments different from our own....
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This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. As humans, we live in a sea of air to the point that we forget the air is there. The lesson brings in some of our favorite hands-on activities. It starts with the classic three-holed bottle activ...
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This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. Ramps and sliders are common tools to help students understand the fundamentals of Newton’s laws. The Explore activity included is a typical Newton’s Second Law activity, but other concepts, ...
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This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. The lesson itself focuses on heat transfer and how materials have characteristics that can increase or decrease the amount of heat flow through them. Using some simple materials students tested t...
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This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. For most concepts, it is impossible to ensure deep understanding with just one lesson, and this concept is a good example of that—waves could take many weeks. For the demonstration lesson, we f...
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This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. This lesson is based on the classic misconception about reflections in mirrors with regard to distance. We use this same lesson to demonstrate STEM to our new teachers because it is fun and very ...
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This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. Few topics are as difficult for students to understand as the relationships among the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon. Add the changing of constellations throughout the year and you have your ...