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This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. This lesson starts with a basic disaster preparedness which can be adapted to any areas o...
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. With climate change as front-page news, this lesson seems very appropriate. The Explore part has st...
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Introducing a New and Urgent Case for STEM Education
The new case for STEM education developed over the course of several years. In this chapter, the author shares how his concerns about the STEM movemen...
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Looking Beyond the STEM Acronym
The local, national, and global challenges related to STEM disciplines give reasons to review the meaning and potential of K–12 STEM education. This...
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Recognizing and Accepting New Challenges for STEM Education
STEM is popular and widely accepted, but initiatives need to evolve past a simple slogan to have a lasting and meaningful place in American education....
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Connecting STEM Education, NGSS, and New State Standards
This chapter explores the question, “What are the connections among STEM, the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), and new state standards?”...
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Proposing Innovations for STEM Education
This chapter introduces a process that has the potential to move STEM education from simply being a collection of initiatives to a plan of action to m...
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The Enlightenment: Identifying Components of a Cultural Foundation
The reason for including this brief review of the Enlightenment is the clear relationship to STEM disciplines and the values that STEM education shoul...
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The Constitution: Establishing a Cultural Foundation
This chapter examines some historical and constitutional connections of STEM themes. This justification elevates STEM to a station considerably higher...
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Democracy, Schooling, and STEM Education: Building on the Cultural Foundation
Democracy and its processes are themes that unite and support the need for STEM as a basic component of American education. The STEM disciplines and e...
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American Science and Technology: A Cultural Heritage
The relationship between STEM and American society represents a cultural heritage that has its origins in history and prominence in contemporary STEM-...
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Citizenship: Exercising the Power and Realizing the Obligations of Our Cultural Heritage
Due to the centrality of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in society, it is now appropriate to couple STEM education with the goal of...
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The Purposes of STEM Education
STEM should address the part of students’ education that prepares them to become responsible citizens. Although important, K–12 STEM education’s...
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Perspectives for STEM Programs
The theme of this chapter is addressing the goal of citizens’ preparation to developing and implementing STEM programs. In this chapter, details are...
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Designing Innovative STEM Units
This chapter discusses an innovative strategy for the design, development, and implementation of STEM units. The strategy for state and local leaders ...