Product Description
Make learning relevant with STEM essential questions
Planning interdisciplinary STEM lessons that meet K-5 grade level expectations can be a challenge. How do you fit it all in? In this engaging, well-organized guide, STEM instructional trailblazer Miranda Reagan provides a teacher-friendly, research-based guide to quickly and confidently infuse STEM concepts across content areas. Real-world vignettes, sample lessons and templates, discussion questions, and immediately applicable action steps help you seamlessly promote college and career ready skills.
This inspiring guide helps teachers use STEM-infused interdisciplinary instruction to:
- Deepen all content areas, including English/ Language Arts
- Promote the 4Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity
- Require students to take risks to solve problems
- Differentiate instruction and scaffold support
- Expand students’ specific measurable capabilities
- Incorporate design skills into the curricula
Save valuable time and confidently develop standards-aligned STEM projects across all content areas with this breakthrough guide!
Key Features:
- Classroom vignettes highlighting STEM successes from real classrooms
- Sample lessons in each chapter, accompanied by matching lesson plans in the Resources section to explain the lessons described in the chapters in more detail
- Lesson plan templates for teachers to use in planning their own STEM-infused lessons
- Additional STEM challenge ideas to get teachers brainstorming on their own STEM-infusion ideas (found in Resources section)
- Glossary
- Discussion starters
- Your Next Step – Challenges to encourage teachers to move forward in your STEM-infusion journey after each chapter
