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Uncovering Students’ Ideas About Using Designs From Nature
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Q: How Can a Design Challenge Be Used To Teach Science?
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Erasing Lecture-Laboratory Boundaries: An Inquiry-Based Course Design
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The University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI) is one of seven autonomous campuses within the University of Maine System. UMPI combines liberal arts and selected professional programs for 1,400 undergraduates and also…
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Designed to Invent: Camp Invention, A 21st-Century Program
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With the support of foundations and corporations, Invent Now works to provide programs for all children, including traditionally underrepresented groups such as girls, minorities, inner-city youth, and families who lack…
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Designing Lessons: Inquiry Approach to Science Using the SIOP Model
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Using the Sheltered Instructional Operation Protocol (SIOP) Model, the authors in this chapter discuss science inquiry, the SIOP Model, and how to blend the two for good science instruction. They finish the chapter with…
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Lesson Plan 2: Our Container Garden–Design Time
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This lesson introduces students to the engineering design process (EDP), the process they will use to design and create their container garden. In this lesson, students work through the first steps of the EDP to develop…
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Lesson Plan 4: Swing Set Makeover Design Challenge
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This lesson serves as the capstone of the module and challenges students to complete their swing set makeovers. The science and mathematics activities guide student teams through building a model of the proposed designs…
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Developing 21st-Century Skills With Design Challenge Units
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Chapters 4–7 contain sections written by individual secondary math and science teachers (grades 6-12) who focus on different aspects of implementing design challenge units. In this chapter, the teachers recognize the…
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Constructive student roles for authentic collaboration in engineering design challenges
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Student roles can promote collaboration and individual accountability in groups during engineering design challenges. However, student disengagement may occur if students do not perceive value in their roles. We…
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Implementing Universal Design for Learning in the Higher Education Science Classroom
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There is a growing need for college science faculty to teach a diverse group of learners. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework can be used to create inclusive learning materials and activities in the higher…
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Introducing Engineering Aims and Values through Rover Wheel Design
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Engineering activities often emphasize the practices of engineers, but pay less attention to aspects of the nature of engineering. One important aspect of the nature of engineering is an understanding of the aims and…
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This paper describes the design and implementation of a human-centered multidisciplinary engineering course for high school students. The course was implemented and modified for both in-person and online modalities.…
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A Human-Centered Design Tool Kit for STEM-Based Capstone Courses
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In fall 2019, a food science instructor partnered with the design center at a large Midwestern university to create a student activity tool kit for integrating the Human-Centered Design (HCD) approach into a science,…
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Using Human-Centered Design to Enhance the Guest Experience at the Dallas Arboretum
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Designing to Disrupt Traditional Conceptions of Scientific Competence
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Pervasive narratives about who and what counts as competent in science disproportionately impact students historically underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM), and are perpetuated in the…
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