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This problem focuses on how the body changes the materials of things we eat into our own tissue. How do animals and plants use food? Why do we not bec...
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Problem-Based Learning in the Life Science Classroom, K–12 (Book Sample)
Problem-Based Learning in the Life Science Classroom, K–12 offers a great new way to ignite your creativity. Authors Tom McConnell, Joyce Parker, a...
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How to Develop an Engineering Design Task
This chapter is a good introduction to the process of designing lessons. It provides a valuable way to start your journey through the many wonderful i...
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This chapter will assist you in identifying the misconceptions of students who are new to STEM. It provides a valuable way to start your journey throu...
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In this chapter, through two different stories, students are introduced to the process—including the frustrations—of designing something to solve ...
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More Teaching Through Trade Books
This chapter presents two fiction trade books that can be used to inspire students to design and test various flying machines. It provides opportuniti...
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This chapter shares the seven overlapping and mutually reinforcing strategies teachers used that effectively supported children’s learning in physic...
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This chapter shares experiences introducing preschoolers and kindergarteners to engineering through an hour-long lesson about designing structures. Th...
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Can a Student Really Do What Engineers Do?
In this chapter, a science teacher educator, a water company informal educator, and a second-grade teacher develop and co-teach a three- to four-day i...
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A STEM activity is any activity that integrates the use of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to solve a problem. This chapter presents...
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Inviting Engineering Into the Science Lab
This chapter presents examples of two lessons adapted from a second-grade program to incorporate the science and engineering practices into lab activi...
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In this activity, note the steps for redesign, and be open to following a design process, not a rigid the design process. Students may spend a long ti...
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Elephant Trunks and Dolphin Tails
This chapter focuses on how engineers help animals. After some time to brainstorm together, students come up with an idea that engineers may help vete...
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This chapter shares two examples of “classic” science lessons adapted to teach science content through engineering design. It also provides some m...
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In this activity, students transform STEM journals into E-books while integrating science, technology, and literacy. The chapter brings forward the id...