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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...
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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 s...
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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...
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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...
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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 t...
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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 challe...
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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 ...
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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. Depe...
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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 differ...
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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 bri...
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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 l...
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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 incr...
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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...
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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 d...
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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...