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Professional Learning Units
STEM PLUs
2-3 Credit Hours
Professional Learning Unit
Becoming a Critical Consumer of STEM Instructional Materials
Being a critical consumer of STEM Instructional materials is an important educator goal that boosts STEM career awareness and STEM career skills. ...
Professional Learning Unit
Broadening STEM to Include Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Contexts
Broadening STEM to include agriculture and natural resource management leverages students’ funds of knowledge and supports meaningful STEM learning....
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Co-Constructing Classroom Agreements with Students
Science is social! Norms can support a classroom community in which students and teachers actively try to make sense of the natural and built worlds....
Professional Learning Unit
Supporting Student Development of Science and STEM Identity
What is a STEM identity, and why is it important for all students? Gain insight and strategies to help your students develop a STEM identity....
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Transdisciplinary Learning: Working Across Disciplines to Address Complex Real-World Problems
Participants will explore the transdisciplinary approach to STEM education and consider how this shift fosters workforce readiness skills....
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Integrating Engineering Practices and Career Competencies into Science Classrooms
A Framework for K-12 Education calls for the integration of engineering design into K-12 science classrooms. This PLU introduces the challenges and opportunities this shift raises....
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We have got a Problem to Solve! Now What?
Science standards based on A Framework for K-12 Science Education require us to provide opportunities for students to learn “how science is utilized, in particular through the engineering design process, and they should come to appreciate the disti...
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Solving the Problem of Finding Authentic Problems Students Can Solve in the K-12 Classroom
Is identifying and choosing relevant, authentic problems to put in front of your students holding you back from providing opportunities to engage your students in engineering design?...