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Designing Meaningful STEM Lessons (book sample)
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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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Lesson Plan 2: Slippery Slide Design
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In this lesson, students investigate Newton’s laws of motion and apply their learning to make a more efficient ramp on which a car will travel. This learning activity is directly connected to the final challenge in…
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Interactive Research: Wastewater Treatment Design Challenge
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When engineers and scientists design systems for wastewater treatment, they must meet certain criteria concerning treatment effectiveness, and they must work within specified constraints such as cost. This section gives…
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Using the Case Studies to Inform Unit Design
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The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) transform the way we approach teaching science by reflecting how scientists think and work. When we involve students in phenomena and task them to explain and predict those…
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Defining and Using Our Design Challenge Units
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Chapters 1–3 provide background information and introduce the particular engineering design process (EDP) used in the Cincinnati Engineering Enhanced Math and Science (CEEMS) program, as well as how the design challenge…
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Guitar Designs—Exploring How Music Is Made
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In this activity, students use household items to make a functional guitar that can play at least one octave and a song. This selection highlights the physics concepts of sound and wave properties, as well as the core…
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Designing Trellises: Cultivating Science and Engineering in the Garden
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Schoolyards and school gardens present a rich context for students to engage with engineering and design. We describe the Designing Trellises unit, an example of a guided 3rd-5th grade engineering experience in the…
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Integrating Engineering Design in Undergraduate Biology Using a Life Science Design Task
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This study examines the initial integration of engineering design in an introductory preservice elementary biology content course using a life science design task focused on composting. The task, informed by a three-…
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Hard-to-Teach Biology Concepts, Revised 2nd Edition: Designing Instruction Aligned to the NGSS
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“This book does not contain a recipe to follow as you plan and deliver lessons. Nor is it a set of predesigned lessons for use in biology classrooms. Instead, it features both an instructional framework you can use as…
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Using Understanding by Design to Make the Standards Come Alive
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Designing a Science Curriculum to Enhance Students' Scientific Literacy
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Over the past two decades or so, the term scientific literacy has become prominent in discussions of the school science curriculum and proposals for improving it. If improving students' scientific literacy is to become…
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Scientists and Engineers USE DESIGN PROCESS (Grades 3–5)
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In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers use design process. They read the book Rosie Revere, Engineer. After reading, students create a concept map of the design process after learning about the…
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Transforming Learning With Design Thinking
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High school students grew up online and in video games. FLEET is a free ship-design simulator that reaches students in their native environment—video games. It is also a physics simulator that applies content first…
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