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A STEM activity is any activity that integrates the use of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to solve a problem. This chapter presents a STEM unit that was completed over two weeks in a kindergarten…
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Inviting Engineering Into the Science Lab
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This chapter presents examples of two lessons adapted from a second-grade program to incorporate the science and engineering practices into lab activities through the use of guided inquiry, rather than the structured-…
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In this activity, note the steps for redesign, and be open to following a design process, not a rigid the design process. Students may spend a long time exploring the properties of the materials before they begin making…
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Elephant Trunks and Dolphin Tails
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This chapter focuses on how engineers help animals. After some time to brainstorm together, students come up with an idea that engineers may help veterinarians heal sick animals or zookeepers develop safe habitats. An…
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This chapter shares two examples of “classic” science lessons adapted to teach science content through engineering design. It also provides some more general strategies for adapting science investigations to focus on…
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In this activity, students transform STEM journals into E-books while integrating science, technology, and literacy. The chapter brings forward the idea of integrating iPads into the classroom. With the students’…
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The lessons contained in this chapter highlight collaborating to improve teacher STEM preparation. This collaboration provided preservice teachers the unique opportunity to develop science units that could be…
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Am I Really Teaching Engineering to Elementary Students?
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This chapter features lessons from an environmental engineering summer camp for first and second graders, with the goal of introducing students to engineering and to address the engineering design standards found in the…
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In this chapter, students investigate how to carry and transport a heavy object including designing and using a tool. With science, technology, engineering, and mathematical concepts involved, it could be included as…
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In this chapter, early childhood students design a piece of playground equipment using a 3-D printer. Kindergarten and first-grade students were charged with designing new playground equipment to create a solution to a…
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In this chapter, second-grade students investigate material properties. Students were introduced to the Next Generation Science Standards model of the engineering design process (EDP) and given different materials to…
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The true purpose of this activity is to introduce students to a five-step EDP (engineering design process). In this chapter, second graders design, build, test, and improve tools to map a waterway, and the design…
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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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A design task helps students identify and find solutions to a school-yard problem. A module was conducted in four 90-minute sessions. Session 1, Preview module and introduce engineering with a warm-up design; Session 2…
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This chapter shows how science and engineering practices can be integrated into the elementary classroom by providing snapshots of activities from a STEM curriculum unit. The unit, focused on aerospace engineering,…
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