A Companion to Interdisciplinary Stem Project-Based Learning : For Educators by Educators.
- 2nd ed.
- 1 online resource (222 pages)
Intro -- A COMPANION TO INTERDISCIPLINARY STEM PROJECT-BASED LEARNING: For Educators by Educators -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN -- 1. Antenna Dilemma -- 2. Building a Better Cereal Box -- 3. Building a Better Tomorrow: Designing the Home of the Future -- 4. Cell Communities -- 5. Classrooms That Improve Education -- 6. Design Your Own High Tech High School -- 7. Egg Drop Parachute -- 8. Fuzzy Decisions: How Control Systems Are Developed -- 9. Mars: The First Frontier -- WATER -- 10. Aquaponics -- 11. Dam: Will It Hold? -- 12. Harmful Algal Blooms: Seeking a Solution for Our Safety -- 13. Healthy Water Is Well Water: Homemade Water Filtration -- 14. Sink or Float? You Be the Judge -- 15. The Water Flows through It: Design and Build an Irrigation System -- ENVIRONMENT -- 16. Carbon Footprint Reduction -- 17. Renewable Energy Sources -- 18. The Modern World: Plastic Pollution Shown through Fibonacci Numbers -- MIXTURES -- 19. Experimenting with Modeling Clay Recipes -- 20. Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of White Powders and Clear Liquids -- 21. Soap Making and Packaging -- TECHNOLOGY -- 22. Emotion, Technology & -- The Body: The Role of Each in Technological Communication -- 23. Game of Charging -- NUTRITION AND GENETICS -- 24. Eat Healthy at Fast Food Restaurants -- 25. Survival of the Fittest: Flying Hamster Genetics.
This text contains 24 Project-Based Learning (PBL) lessons written by high school teachers (adaptable for middle school) that include lesson appropriate for all subjects. All the PBL lessons in the book were used in urban high-school classrooms.
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Project method in teaching. Science--Study and teaching (Secondary). Technology--Study and teaching (Secondary).