eBook - ePub

What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom

Name: What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom
Author: Jason McKenna

Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, Grades K–6 (Supplement your teaching with field-tested strategies.)

Jason McKenna,

192 pages
English
ePUB (mobile friendly)
Available on iOS & Android

eBook - ePub

What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom

Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, Grades K–6 (Supplement your teaching with field-tested strategies.)

Jason McKenna,

About this book

Author and educator Jason McKenna describes how teaching STEM education in his elementary school changed his classroom and his life, improving his students' and his own approaches to problem solving, collaboration, and general motivation to learn. Offering examples, tried and tested classroom projects, and collaborative strategies, this innovative resource opens up STEM education in K–6 classrooms in exciting and expansive new ways.

K–6 educators will:

Understand the benefits and importance of STEM in elementary schools
Build resiliency and curiosity in students
Discover a variety of classroom instruction strategies to approach STEM assessment
Read vignettes discussing STEM implementation across grade levels
Use new strategies to engage and motivate student learning through voice and choice

Contents:
Part 1: Start STEM Early
Chapter 1: Inspiring Students With STEM Narratives
Chapter 2: Teaching STEM in Elementary School
Part 2: Discover STEM Learning Principles
Chapter 3: Focusing on Authentic Engagement, Choice, and Collaboration
Chapter 4: Creating Risk Takers
Part 3: Explore STEM Pedagogy
Chapter 5: Exploring STEM Teaching and Guided Discovery Learning
Chapter 6: Making Assessment Student Centered in Elementary STEM Classrooms
Chapter 7: Exploring STEM and Creativity
Chapter 8: Bringing It All Together
Epilogue
References and Resources
Index

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