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5E(z) Guidelines for Designing Research- Informed Science Lesson Sequences
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Overworked elementary teachers do not have to invest their limited time in creating, field-testing, and revising their own science activities from scratch. This chapter reviews the five steps that teachers can use to…
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Think It, Design It, Build It, Test It, Refine It
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In this chapter, a unit on water quality ends with a water filtration engineering design activity and was a win-win situation. Students were already very curious to learn about water filtration after their study of…
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How Do I Design Authentic Assessments to Meet the Needs of ALL Learners?
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Students need opportunities to show what they know in a variety of ways and at multiple points along the way. Knowing what to look for and how to interpret what you see may guide you to plan new experiences. Questioning…
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Go Ahead—Mimic Me: How Plants and Animals Inspire Inventions and Design
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Using Standards And Cognitive Research To Inform The Design And Use Of Formative Assessment Probes
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In their work with teachers, the authors use a process called Curriculum Topic Study (CTS) developed through our National Science Foundation–funded project, “Curriculum Topic Study–A Systematic Approach to Utilizing…
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Creating Engineering Design Challenges: Success Stories From Teachers (Book Sample)
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If you’ve ever wished for advice you can trust on how to make science and math more relevant to your middle or high school students, Creating Engineering Design Challenges is the book for you. At its core are 13 units…
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A Residential Learning Community for Enhancing STEM Education: Program Design and Lessons Learned
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There continues to be a concern regarding sustained recruitment and retention of students in STEM majors. Although the rate of attrition in these majors is comparable to other majors (Chen, 2013), the demand for trained…
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All students should have opportunities to investigate issues related to their personal interests and community priorities. Teachers value these goals but often lack materials that follow students' meaningful questions…
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Saving Our Water: Engagement Strategies for Designing Collaborative Community-Based Solutions
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In recent years, some communities have experienced extreme conditions of drought: reduced water supply for farms, increased wildfires, and decreased water availability in reservoirs and groundwater basins. This article…
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Packaging Design, Grade 6: STEM Road Map for Middle School (Book Sample)
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Packaging Design outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. As are the other volumes in the series, this book is designed to…
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Here’s good news: With this practical book, you can learn from experienced elementary school educators about how to make physical science both challenging and accessible for a diverse range of students. Written by…
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Integrating engineering into the science curriculum in a meaningful way requires planning that utilizes a 3-dimensional approach. Using a “gather, reason, communicate” framework (Moulding, Huff, Van der Veen, 2020)…
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Introducing Engineering Design to First-Year Students Through the Net Zero Energy Challenge
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First-year engineering students are often introduced to the engineering design process through project-based learning situated in a concrete design context. Design contexts like mechanical engineering are commonly used…
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Learning Design Experiments (LDEs), which take their name from design experiments in the learning sciences (Brown 1992), support educational innovation and progressive refinement of learning experiences by taking an…
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