This lesson will give students an introduction to the deconstruction and assembly processes. Students will learn what the assembly process steps are and how to assemble something by first deconstructing it. This lesson will also have a focus on measurement using a ruler and how the roles of producers and consumers affect the assembly process.
Author
Crystal Whisenant
An electric cooperative is defined as “a not-for-profit electric cooperative owned by the people it serves”. In this lesson plan, students will learn the different departments associated with an electric cooperative. The students will be placed in different departments such as Board of Directors, General Manager, Assistant Manager, Marketing, Sales, Customer Service, and Delivery. The cooperative will provide merchandise (candy) to the student body and at the end of the activity, the students in the Personal Finance class will receive capital credits as cooperative members receive at the end of the fiscal year. By the end of this project, students will have a better understanding of the definition of a cooperative, how to work as a team, and how a business is run collaboratively, as they each perform their business duties.
Author
Daria Fedrick
There is a large need currently in agriculture for new ideas, engineering and designing better equipment, developing nutrient-efficient crops and sustainable practices to support a growing population. Throughout the semester, students will travel to several tour sites, gathering information about the various components of agriculture, horticulture and the technological advancements that make it all possible. Students will then have the opportunity to design a final product based on the needs, ideas, or environmental concerns that they observe throughout their experience.
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J’Lisa Miles
This course is designed to teach kindergarten students how to work purposefully, collaboratively, and creatively like engineers, by practicing the safety principles and school rules to ensure their safety at school and prepare them for real-world jobs. Through my internship at Siemens, I learned that educators can prepare students for the real world by incorporating activities that compel collaboration, teamwork, communication, critical thinking, problem-solving, and responding to feedback.
Author
Lisa Cook
This lesson plan utilizes candy, sports, and air pollution to explore scatterplots and correlation of variables. It is adapted from Section 3.1 in The Practice of Statistics Sixth Edition by Starnes and Tabor.
Author
Margaret Borden
Students explore the idea of correlation and least squares regression through baseball, chocolate, and human mortality.
Author
Margaret Borden
In this two to three-week assessment and project, students will work in groups to write argumentative essays (supported by textual evidence) explaining who is responsible for helping the communities that we have read about to “clean up” after war has ravaged their countries.
Author
Emily Ericson
This lesson outlines the steps for planning an Agriculture Awareness Day for elementary-aged students. The objectives are the event are to help students:
Author
Crystal Folger-Hawks
Young learners often explore properties of different materials in the world around them, but they are not as often given opportunities to create materials containing unique properties for exploration. Adhesives have exciting properties to examine, not only because of their unusual bonding capabilities but because of the many ways they are used to solve problems in the world today.
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Nathalie Ludwig
No longer can we say that 21st Century jobs are jobs “of the future.” Those jobs are here. As we embrace STEM and all of the amazingness that comes with it, we must be sure not to allow communication skills to fall to the wayside. This five-day unit helps students build workplace communication skills.
Author
John Kurzawa
Start a school-based FIRST Lego League Team and compete in a regional challenge.
Author
Christopher Joy-Hogg
This project will focus on the development of a student-to-student instructional program to foster collaboration and promote active learning in the school environment. Students will acquire peer teaching and learning strategies to be applied in any subject area. A majority of lessons and content in this project will focus mainly on but is not limited to, 2nd-grade elementary mathematics and science standards.
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Maggie Hershey-Mason
Middle school students (grades 6-8) will be able to create custom 3D printed forms to add to Bosch’s EcoShape Kit to invent a new way to use the kit, focusing on the discipline of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math).
Author
Kris Gorman
How often do your students ask, “How will I use this in real life?”
After becoming a Kenan Fellow, I gained many useful ideas from classroom setup to integrating STEM during and after school. My internship at IBM provided me with several resources to give students a global view of how their future careers affect the world.
To show my students how to use math and science, I use time after and during school to demonstrate the possibilities they have for their future involving STEM. After partnering with parents and members of the community, I have created my schools first Robotics Club and I facilitate the Data Science Seminar once a week. Please use this site as a resource to help guide your endeavors of using STEM in the classroom.
Author: Tamiko Williams
Why spend millions of dollars and countless hours studying worms, yeast, fish, and mice? These creatures look and act so differently from us, yet we are more related than you may think. In this unit, students explore the structure and function of DNA, discover our relatedness to other organisms, learn the characteristics of the ideal model organism, and create trading cards that summarize why model organisms are important in scientific research.
Author: Anna Glasgow