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7 STEAM posters free on teachers pay teachers

7 STEAM posters free on teachers pay teachers

Free on Teachers Pay Teachers: This is a great collaborative activity where groups of 3 students create a test to give to two other groups of students. Each student ends up taking two tests,

STEAM mini journal for elementary students free on teachers pay teachers

Maker space plans free on teachers pay teachers

Free on Teachers Pay Teachers: A graphic organizer to help guide you through the process of creating a problem based learning unit or activity for your class. The PBL planner helps you gets

Free on Teachers Pay Teachers: Free informational packet on how project based learning is different projects. Included: *A chart comparing the two very different ways of teaching. *A picture

Nice use of staff bio/blog

A project is meaningful if it fulfills two criteria. First, students must perceive the work as personally meaningful, as a task that matters and that they want to do well. Second, a meaningful project fulfills an educational purpose. Well-designed and well-implemented project-based learning is meaningful in both ways.  The authors have identified seven essential elements of meaningful projects - very clear, concise article.

Seven Essentials for Project-Based Learning. Good explanation of essentials of project-based learning.

Founded in 1943, ASCD (formerly the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development) is an educational leadership organization dedicated to advancing best practices and policies for the success of each learner. Our 175,000 members in 119 countries are professional educators from all levels and subject areas--superintendents, supervisors, principals, teachers, professors of education, and school board members.

As a result of the Arizona Teach 21 Course, and the Project Based Learning Course, the teachers of Cave Creek Unified School District have shared their unit plans/lesson plans for the global community

Today, PBL is viewed as a model for classroom activity that shifts away from teacher-centered instruction and emphasizes student-centered projects.  Great introduction to PBL and its benefits based on current research..

Across the country, teachers and administrators are coming to a similar conclusion: art informs science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and vice versa.  This is a good article about design thinking.

Gaining STEAM: Teaching Science Through Art An interesting article about teaching science through art.

Scale in geometry is the same thing as perspective in art, one teacher points out. Breaking down the walls between art, hard sciences and math, a new crop of educators is designing curricula that allow these subjects partner with one another, encouraging holistic learning.

Problem-Based Learning (PBL) is an instructional method of hands-on, active learning centered on the investigation and resolution of messy, real-world problems.  This may help our teachers find Science PBL projects to do with their kids.

How to effective approach and enact PBL in your classroom