What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, Grades K-6 (Supplement your teaching with field-tested strategies.)

by Jason McKenna

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781954631465
Publisher:	Solution Tree Press
Publication date:	01/17/2023
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	4 MB

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"From prompts teachers can use in response to student-voiced concerns to overarching design and instructional principles to the dozens of classroom-ready activities sprinkled throughout, it is clear that this is a book by a teacher for teachers."

—David Weintrop, assistant professor, College of Education, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland

"What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom is packed with practical and engaging tips that will help any teacher bring the joy of creating and interacting with the world to standards-aligned learning."

—Leigh Ann DeLyser, cofounder and executive director, CSforALL

"What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom will inspire your creativity and push your thinking on how to integrate STEM to a new level."

—Laura Mackay, coordinator of robotics, coding and computational thinking, Clear Creek ISD, Texas