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Integrated STEM K-12 Curriculum Development for Mainstream Adoption William Hunter Brad Christensen Exploring the Idea Exploring the Idea: Open up the sack on your table and remove the materials. Leave the books. There are enough


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Integrated STEM K-12 Curriculum Development for Mainstream Adoption

William Hunter Brad Christensen

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Exploring the Idea

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Exploring the Idea:

  • Open up the sack on your

table and remove the

  • materials. Leave the books.
  • There are enough materials for

3 groups at each table.

  • Get started on the Explore It

activity

  • Answer the questions in the

Describe It section.

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Step 5.

  • Object A – Amber Chandelier
  • Object B – Top of the Screen
  • Object C – Exit Sign
  • Object D – A Smoke Detector

Step 7.

  • Do this from your table.
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Group Base Distance Angle Tangent Ratio Altitude CHIME

Step 14.

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Getting the Idea

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Getting the Idea:

  • 1. What did you learn?
  • 2. How did you learn it?
  • What did you do?
  • What did we do?
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Bicycles and Cell phones How do you learn ? About 98% of all teachers think that projects are great way to teach. Only 50% ever do one.

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Applying the Idea

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Applying the Idea:

Pull out the books and share them around the table. They vary: Kindergarten to High School North Carolina to California Draft copies to final versions Color and monochrome Student and Teacher Editions English and Spanish versions

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Applying the Idea:

Try and wrap your head around what the lessons are doing…format, structure, context, content. Ask us questions.

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Consider the following:

  • 1. How do we normally use projects?
  • 2. How do these lessons use projects?

STEM for: “…mainstream adoption”

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What favors Integrated STEM for mainstream adoption?

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The Learning Cycle:

Exploration Discussion/explanation Application Expansion/further study Assessment

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Does it work?

TIMSS National average Mathematics 9.4 Science 11.5 IMaST students Mathematics 10.7 Science 13.4 Stanford Achievement Test no significant difference

Transformed pedagogy and student performance

“High school teachers could identify IMaST graduates because they were equipped to tackle problems on their own rather than ask “What do you want me to do?” or “What will be on the test?” etc.”

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Expanding the Idea:

Questions

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Integrated STEM K-12 Curriculum Development for Mainstream Adoption

  • Dr. Willy Hunter
  • Dr. Brad Christensen

Please give us the books back.