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Transportation in the Future, Grade 3: STEM Road Map for Elementary School (Book sample chapter)
What if you could challenge your third graders to design the train of the future? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! ...
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This lesson introduces students to the module and the culminating challenge for the module—the Maglevacation Train Challenge. The focus is on train ...
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This lesson provides information to enable students to identify the connection between the westward expansion of the United States and the proliferati...
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In this lesson, students explore passenger train travel today and compare it with other modes of transportation, using the jigsaw learning method. The...
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Speeding Ahead–The Maglevacation Train Challenge
In this lesson, students apply their knowledge of mapping, geography, trains, and science concepts related to magnetism and speed to design their Magl...
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This chapter highlights the story of STEM. There is a moral and economic underpinning to the STEM imperative. Anything short of the cultivation of a c...
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Catalyzing Professional STEM Networks: Local, Regional, and Statewide
This chapter presents the essential role of networks—intra- and inter-school and cross-stakeholder alliances—for effective, sustainable STEM educa...
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School—Business STEM Partnerships
A signature of the STEM awakening has become the school–business connection. What was once the sole domain of career-technical education, workplace ...
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STEM Teachers, STEM Classrooms, STEM Schools
Over the course of the early 21st century, STEM has enjoyed a bandwagon effect as the brand strengthens. In this chapter, purists and pioneers have pu...
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Interwoven with classroom and teacher designations are curricula and assessment strategies. This chapter profiles some of the exemplary materials that...
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There are teachers of STEM subjects and then there are STEM teachers. This chapter distinguishes the two, highlighting preparatory programs and pathwa...
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The Professional Development of STEM Teachers
This chapter examines the challenges inherent in helping content area secondary teachers and generalist elementary teachers implement a STEM learning ...
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This chapter is the result of answered invitations for experts across the STEM stakeholder spectrum to weigh in on where we go from here. Classroom pr...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore the relationship between acceleration an...
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The purpose of this lab is to introduce students to the core idea of forces and motion by having them explore ”What Is the Relationship Between the ...