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Packaging Design, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School (Book Sample)

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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...

Oh, How the Garden Grows

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Oh, How the Garden Grows

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 s...

Introducing a New and Urgent Case for STEM Education

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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 t...

A New Way of Thinking About STEM

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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 chal...

The Human Factor

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The Human Factor

This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. The engineering design challenge calls for students to develop a technology to separate t...

Cell-fie

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Cell-fie

This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. What student could resist a lesson that involves a zombie apocalypse? The engineering design challe...

Gobble, Gobble, Toil and Trouble

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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 ...

Designing the Super Explore

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Designing the Super Explore

This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. Designing the Super Explore is an engineering design challenge added to an inheritance lesson. Depe...

It’s a What?

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It’s a What?

This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. Students are fascinated by strange-looking animals that have adapted to live in environments differ...

Is It Air or Wind?

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Is It Air or Wind?

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 bri...

Aircraft Catapult

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Aircraft Catapult

This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. Ramps and sliders are common tools to help students understand the fundamentals of Newton’s l...

Keeping It Cool

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Keeping It Cool

This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. The lesson itself focuses on heat transfer and how materials have characteristics that can incr...

The Pitch in the Wave

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The Pitch in the Wave

This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. For most concepts, it is impossible to ensure deep understanding with just one lesson, and this...

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

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Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

This chapter features Physical sciences StEMT lessons. This lesson is based on the classic misconception about reflections in mirrors with regard to d...

To Infinity and Beyond

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To Infinity and Beyond

This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. Few topics are as difficult for students to understand as the relationships among the Sun...

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