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  • What to Expect With Group Work

    Journal Article |

    Instructors who wish to take advantage of the benefits of collaborative group work often hesitate over concerns about conflict or problems that arise between students. There are no estimates of the level of conflict…

  • Making Science Personal

    Journal Article |

    General education college astronomy courses offer instructors both a unique audience and a unique challenge. For many students, such a course may be their first time encountering a stand-alone astronomy class, and it is…

  • Incorporating Programming, Modeling, and Data Analysis Into an Introductory Biology Course

    Journal Article |

    This paper describes an introductory biology course for undergraduates that heavily incorporates quantitative problem solving in activities and homework assignments. The course is broken up into a series of units, each…

  • Sustainability, Energy, and the Green Economy

    Journal Article |

    Interdisciplinary education offers a collaborative approach to multifaceted topics, such as environmental sustainability. In this article, we present the conceptual framework and lessons learned from a team-taught…

  • Practice Makes Better

    Journal Article |

    Practice effects are ubiquitous human phenomena that have been scientifically studied for over half a century. They are also among the most directly applicable psychological phenomenon, holding broad implications for…

  • Healthy Living, Grade 10: STEM Road Map for High School (Book Sample)

    Book Chapter |

    What if you could challenge your 10th graders to develop a product or process that helps people embrace diet and exercise and has a positive impact on society? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series,…

  • Novel Engineering, K–8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy (Book Sample)

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    With the Novel Engineering approach, “students become excited about what they are reading, writing, designing, and building! This excitement in turn helps them make strides in engineering and literacy, as well as in…

  • Universal Design for Learning Science: Reframing Elementary Instructionn in Physical Science (Book Sample)

    Book Chapter |

    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…

  • The STEM Imperative

    Book Chapter |

    This chapter highlights the story of STEM. There is a moral and economic underpinning to the STEM imperative. Anything short of the cultivation of a culture for STEM is insufficient. Success requires a systemic rather…

  • Catalyzing Professional STEM Networks: Local, Regional, and Statewide

    Book Chapter |

    This chapter presents the essential role of networks—intra- and inter-school and cross-stakeholder alliances—for effective, sustainable STEM education. The journalist’s principle of the Five W’s leave no stone unturned…

  • School—Business STEM Partnerships

    Book Chapter |

    A signature of the STEM awakening has become the school–business connection. What was once the sole domain of career-technical education, workplace applications of content, and on-the-job learning permeate the core…

  • STEM Teachers, STEM Classrooms, STEM Schools

    Book Chapter |

    Over the course of the early 21st century, STEM has enjoyed a bandwagon effect as the brand strengthens. In this chapter, purists and pioneers have put structures in place to establish a certain standard that upholds…

  • STEM Learning and Assessment

    Book Chapter |

    Interwoven with classroom and teacher designations are curricula and assessment strategies. This chapter profiles some of the exemplary materials that support STEM teaching and learning, as well as the emergent process…

  • The Making of STEM Teachers

    Book Chapter |

    There are teachers of STEM subjects and then there are STEM teachers. This chapter distinguishes the two, highlighting preparatory programs and pathways that integrate the best practices illuminated up to this point…

  • The Professional Development of STEM Teachers

    Book Chapter |

    This chapter examines the challenges inherent in helping content area secondary teachers and generalist elementary teachers implement a STEM learning mission. Building capacity for STEM intricately involves transforming…

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