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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…
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Catalyzing Professional STEM Networks: Local, Regional, and Statewide
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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…
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School—Business STEM Partnerships
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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…
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STEM Teachers, STEM Classrooms, STEM Schools
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The Professional Development of STEM Teachers
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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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This chapter is the result of answered invitations for experts across the STEM stakeholder spectrum to weigh in on where we go from here. Classroom practitioners, industry advocates, community catalysts, parents,…
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This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. For this disciplinary core idea, we chose a simple lesson focused on soils and the role soils play in plant growth. The lesson starts with students being…
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Introducing a New and Urgent Case for STEM Education
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Doing STEM does not need to be difficult for teachers. By helping teachers understand the method for StEMTifying their existing lessons and turning them into STEM lessons, engineering becomes another tool that is…
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A New Way of Thinking About STEM
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Chapters 5 and 6 are included in this book selection. Chapter 5 focuses on StEMT, our way of making sense of STEM as a process. We are not out to challenge the acronym but when you see this term, it is to guide you to a…
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This chapter features Earth and Space science StEMT lessons. The engineering design challenge calls for students to develop a technology to separate the materials in a mixture. Devising a means of separation for each…
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. What student could resist a lesson that involves a zombie apocalypse? The engineering design challenge of this lesson really ups the excitement level of the studying of…
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Gobble, Gobble, Toil and Trouble
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. The Turkey Trot lesson has become very popular in middle school where we cover limiting factors in environments. Using a game for Explore students will interact with…
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This chapter features Life sciences StEMT lessons. Designing the Super Explore is an engineering design challenge added to an inheritance lesson. Dependent on the grade level and purpose of this lesson, students may…
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