Engineering in Elementary STEM Education: Curriculum Design, Instruction, Learning, and Assessment

Bolstered by new standards and new initiatives to promote STEM education, engineering is making its way into the school curriculum. This comprehensive introduction will help elementary educators integrate engineering into their classroom, school, or district in age-appropriate, inclusive, and engaging ways. Building on the work of a Museum of Science team that has spent 15 years developing elementary engineering curricula, this book outlines how engineering can be integrated into a broader STEM curriculum, details its pedagogical benefits to students, and includes classroom examples to help educators tailor instruction to engage diverse students. Featuring vignettes, case studies, videos, research results, and assessments, this resource will help readers visualize high-quality elementary engineering and understand the theoretical principles in context.
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<li>Frameworks to help teachers create curricula and structure activities.</li>
<li>A focus on engaging the diversity of learners in today’s classrooms.</li>
<li>Experiences from the nation’s leading elementary education curriculum that has reached 13.3 million children and 165,000 educators.</li>
<li>Go to eie.org/book for videos, assessment tools, reproducibles, and other instructional supports that enliven the text.</li>
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Science & Math

Cunningham, Christine M.

Museum Of Science, Boston

Science for Kids

Teachers' College Press

Assessing Toxic Risk is a comprehensive guide to student research in toxicology. It includes an overview of basic principles of toxicology and how they are used to assess chemical risks. It provides simple but authentic research protocols to engage students in the process of testing chemical toxicity by conducting bioassays using lettuce seeds, duckweed, and Daphnia. It also contains guidelines for integrating peer review and other collaborative knowledge-building into classroom science. Toxicology makes an ideal topic for student research because it provides a natural link between biology, chemistry, environmental science, and human health; it highlights the connections between science and public policy; and builds critical-thinking skills.

Assessing Toxic Risk : Teachers Guide and Student Edition

Krasny, Marianne E.

Trautmann, Nancy M.

Carlsen, William S.

Nature & Ecology

Natl Science Teachers Assn

Are you looking for a new way to teach about respiration, nutrient cycling, energy flow, producers, consumers, and decomposers? Decay and Renewal provides techniques for students to learn the basics while investigating the science behind biodegradation in nature and in human-engineered systems for wastewater treatment, waste disposal, and bioremediation of oil spills and other contaminated sites. The Teacher Edition explains how to guide student research and engineering design projects. Classroom-ready materials include detailed background information, sample assessment tasks, and rubrics, and guidelines for integrating peer review into classroom science. The Teacher Edition contains the complete text of the Student Edition. The Student Edition includes: An overview of basic principles of biodegradation and how they apply in composting, landfills, wastewater treatment, and bioremediation systems. Protocols that provide instructions for conducting experiments on biological, chemical, and physical aspects of biodegradation. Forms to guide students through each step of research, providing structure but flexibility in designing and conducting meaningful experiments. Step-by-Step guidelines for an engineering design challenge related to treatment of simulated wastewater. Decay and Renewal is the third volume in the four-part Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series, designed to guide students in creating and conducting experiments, presenting their results, and exchanging feedback with their peers.

Decay and Renewal (Cornell Scientific Inquiry Series)

Biological Sciences

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