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The Case for STEM Education
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If you are an education leader concerned with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives, this book will help you both understand and implement STEM action plans. The book starts by putting STEM in context, as the early chapters outline the challenges facing STEM education, draw lessons from the Sputnik moment of the 1950s and 1960s, and contrast contemporary STEM with other education reforms. The author then explores appropriate roles for the federal government as well as states, districts, and individual schools. Finally, the book offers several ideas you can use to develop actual action plans for STEM."
A Practice-Based Model of Stem Teaching
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The STEM Students on the Stage (SOS)(tm) model was developed by Harmony Public Schools with the goal of teaching rigorous content in an engaging, fun and effective way. In this book, you will learn that the STEM SOS model is not only helping students learn STEM content and develop 21st-century skills, but also helping teachers improve their classroom climate through increased student-teacher communication and a reduction in classroom management issues. There are at least two ways in which this book is innovative. First, you will find student videos and websites associated with QR codes; readers can use their QR readers to watch student videos related to the content in the chapter and see student e-portfolio samples at their Google sites. This provides the opportunity to see that what is discussed in the book actually happened. Second, the book is not about a theory; it is an actual implemented model that has evolved through the years and has been used in more than 25 schools since 2012. Every year, the model continues to be improved to increase its rigor and ease of implementation for both teachers and students. In addition to using the book as a classroom teacher resource and guide, it can also be used as a textbook in advanced graduate level curriculum and instruction, educational leadership, and STEM education programs. Therefore, STEM educators, leaders, pre-service and in-service teachers and graduate students will all benefit from reading this book. Appendices will be one of the favorite aspects of this book for teachers who are constantly looking for ready-to-use student and teacher handouts and activities. Full handouts, including formative and summative assessments materials and grading rubrics, will provide an opportunity for teachers and curriculum directors to understand the ideas and secrets behind the STEM SOS model. Lastly, STEM directors will find this to be one of the best STEM teaching model examples on the market because the model has fully accessible student and teacher handouts, assessment materials, rubrics and hundreds of student products (e-portfolios including video presentations and project brochures) online.
Successful K-12 STEM Education
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This outstanding and comprehensive collection of user-friendly protocols is essential for neuroscientists who wish to localize, identify, purify, and/or quantify neurotransmitters. The easily reproducible methods presented cover a broad spectrum of approaches involving cell and organ culture, histochemistry, immunochemistry, in situ hybridization, cell fractionation, liquid chromatography, mass spectrometry, in vivo microdialysis, and voltammetry. These approaches are optimized for use by neuroscientists, are often complementary, and can be employed in tandem with powerful effect.
Teaching STEM in the Early Years
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Provides more than ninety activities and learning center ideas that seamlessly integrate STEM throughout early childhood classrooms. These hands-on STEM experiences enhance cooking, art, and music activities, block play and sensory table exploration, and field trips and outdoor time. Information on assessment and early learning standards is also provided. Sally Moomaw, EdD, has spent much of her career researching and teaching STEM education.
STEM Play
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STEM Play provides varied activities for the most common centers: Art, blocks, dramatic play, literacy, math, science, music and movement. Full of beautiful, full-color photos that show the activities in real early childhood classrooms, teachers can easily use the book's ideas immediately in their curriculum. STEM Play also includes a "How To" section for teachers who wish to expand on the STEM focus and use themed activities in their learning centers.
STEAM Makers
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This book shares the stories of innovative learning opportunities that discuss hands-on and technology-based activities that promote the development of 21st century skills, preparing students for college, career, and beyond.
STEM to Story
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Inspires learning through fun, engaging, and meaningful lesson plans that fuse hands-on discovery in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) with creative writing. Authentically aligned with both the Common Core State Standards and the Next Generation Science Standards, this book provides teachers with field-tested lessons, workshops, and projects designed by professionals in each field.
A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing Stem Education
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Within the next few years... our students will be older, poorer, female, minority, and immigrant; and we must be prepared to experiment with pedagogy that will serve them. This important new book was written to assist with that process. Attending to the Margins crosses regional, institutional, gender, rank, and racial lines, providing new insight into how best to teach traditionally excluded students. Some of the topics covered include: orality/literacy, bilingualism, bidialectalism, linguistic prejudice and shame, technological literacy, and ethics of disclosure. As one of the few sociolinguistically-informed, research-based anthologies in composition, Attending to the Margins demonstrates the most current applications of method and theory. Graduate-level students, writing instructors, writing program administrators, and writing center directors will all find the book essential reading.
A Companion To Interdisciplinary Stem Project-Based Learning: For Educators by Educators
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