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Designing Meaningful STEM Lessons (book sample)
Book Chapter |
Sure, there are lots of cool STEM activities you can use in class. But do they really help your students learn science? This book shows you how to take lessons you’re already familiar with and, through small changes, do…
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Introducing a New and Urgent Case for STEM Education
Book Chapter |
Doing STEM does not need to be difficult for teachers. By helping teachers understand the method for StEMTifying their existing lessons and turning them into STEM lessons, engineering becomes another tool that is…
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Introducing a New and Urgent Case for STEM Education
Book Chapter |
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 movement resided in the significant diversity in what STEM meant when it…
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Recognizing and Accepting New Challenges for STEM Education
Book Chapter |
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. In this chapter, an approach is proposed that maintains, and could…
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Learning STEM by Building Airplanes
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Doing Good Science in Middle School, Expanded 2nd Edition: A Practical STEM Guide
NSTA Press Book |
“We are among those who have come to enjoy the blossoming intellects, often comical behaviors, and insatiable curiosity of middle schoolers—and choose to work with them! With more than 130 years of combined experience…
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Closing the Achievement Gap by Bringing STEM Kits Home
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Exemplar Teaching Practices in STEM Courses in U.S. Universities
Journal Article |
Based on the largest multi-institutional observational study of undergraduate courses in the United States, this article describes exemplar teaching practices in engineering courses as an interdisciplinary science field…
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STEM Outreach: Traditional vs. Virtual Summer Programming
Journal Article |
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Young Architects at Play: STEM Activities for Young Children
Journal Article |
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Recent Developments in Classroom Observation Protocols for Undergraduate STEM
Journal Article |
Over the past decade, researchers have developed several teaching observation protocols for use in higher education, such as the Teaching Dimensions Observation Protocol (TDOP), Classroom Observation Protocol for…
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Taking Action in STEM Learning
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STEM Laboratory Safety on a Shoestring
Journal Article |
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Development and Implementation of an Undergraduate STEM Peer Coaching Program
Journal Article |
Undergraduate science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) experiences have academic, psychological, and social challenges that require additional support to navigate. This article explains the…