Welcome!!As you find your seat,

please complete the following task.Your Task

• Using the paper provided at your

seat, bullet 3 to 5 ideas that describe

what you know or think about STEM

Education in the State of Maryland.

• When you have finished, either

crumple your paper into a ball or

create a paper airplaneWAIT FOR FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS.

Integrating Standards

through STEM

Education

Explore an Integrated Approach to Instruction.

Using real-world context and collaborative

interaction, participants will work together to

develop an outline for a potential lesson or

unit that integrates standards from multiple

content areas.

Today’s Outcomes

Generate a bank of real-world problems, challenges, and/or global issues around which to design a STEM learning experience.

Develop an outline for a potential learning experience that integrates standards from multiple content areas.

Change your perspective about how you plan and implement STEM-centric instruction.

Task Share Out Using the paper provided at your seat, bullet 3 to 5 ideas that describe what you know or think about STEM Education in the state of Maryland. When you have finished, either crumple

your paper into a ball or create a paper airplane.

STEM Education in Maryland

STEM Education is an approach to

teaching and learning that integrates

the content and skills of the STEM

disciplines and other disciplines to

answer complex questions,

investigate global issues, and solve

real-world problems and challenges

to prepare students for post-

secondary study and the 21st century

workforce.

should always include a

connection to a career

field so that students

recognize the practical

application of knowledge

and skills in everyday life.

STEM

Education

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Designing a STEM- Centric Experience

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PR

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EWhen designing a

STEM-Centric learning

experience it is

important to start first

with Content

Standards and the

STEM Standards of

Practice.

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• Implementing STEM Education should not

disrupt, displace, or add on

to curricular pacing.• STEM Education

complements the continuum

of content instruction that

would occur during the day.

• Two approaches to implementation:• Projects and/or Themes that

Span Multiple Disciplines

• Content – Based Infusion

Creating a

STEM-Centric

Lesson

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In the specified folders, you will find a variety of real-world connections.

Do not limit yourself to the ones in the folder – they are there to help inspire you and support your thoughts and ideas.

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Think about other content areas that naturally fit with the real-world connection you chose.

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What career connections relate to the experience you would like to

create?

CREATING YOUR STEM-CENTRIC

EXPERIENCESTEM

CONTENT

REAL-WORLD

CONNECTIONS

OTHER CONTENT

CAREER

CONNECTIONS

COMPLEX

QUESTIONS

CHALLENGES

REAL WORLD

PROBLEMS

W E A V E I T T O G E T H E R

What Makes A Good Question, Issue,

Problem, or Challenge?A scale of context and relevancy, from

global to local, is present.

Personal connection to students.

Reflection of contemporary situation or a

creative original juxtaposition of

contemporary understanding and past

understanding.Moral or ethical connections are built in.

Problems are transdisciplinary but content

can emphasize a narrow range of specific

subject objectives.

Adapted From: Glasgow, A. N. (1997). New Curriculum for New Times A Guide to Student-Centered, Problem-Based Learning. Thousand

Oaks, CA: Sage.

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Additional STEM

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Home Bodies

Designate one member of your group to share your group’s thinking and ideas.

Designate another member to gather ideas and suggestions from visiting groups.

Visitors

The remaining members will visit the other groups to hear their ideas and provide feedback.

GATHERING ADDITIONAL IDEAS

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FINAL SHARE-OUT

Please share your group’s ideas about a STEM experience.

Each group will have 2 minutes to share.

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STEM is not what you teach, but HOW you teach it.

STEM-centric instruction is built around content standards.

STEM learning experiences are designed to connect with a real-world problem or issue.

STEM learning experiences must be transdisciplinary in nature, and the disciplines included should fit naturally.

Group collaboration is key so that teachers can share ideas.

STEM experiences are inquiry-based.

STEM experiences are hands-on.

Other?...

“Bu

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xpre

ss” You will have only one (1)

minute to explore the

items in your Lego Kit,

and only three (3) minutes

to work with your team to

build a model that communicates your

group’s collaborative

process.

RULES

All team members take part

in the activity

Everyone shares

Everyone listens

Please defer judgment

Build on the ideas of others

Questions?

Ready … Set … Go!

GROUP SHARE-OUTPlease explain the collaborative process your group used in

developing your STEM Experience.

TAKING IT BACK !

Work alone or in a small group to develop

a plan for yourself, your school, your

department, or your grade level.

YOUR STEM PLAN

Wh

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Th

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REFLECTION

Having now

gone through

this process,

what would

you tell your

future self

about STEM ?

EVALUATION

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