Using Project-Based Learning to Engage Parents in the School Community Another site that help us consider how to engage parents.

Project-Based Learning: Resources for Parents Here is another parent friendly site around PBL.

Project-Based Learning: A Parent Primer Creating a symbaloo page of resources around PBL for parents might be a good idea.  This site might get us started.

Building Parent Support for Project-Based Learning This might provide some ideas around engaging parents with supporting PBL.

We need to add Art + Design to the equation - to transform STEM into STEAM. This site helps us frame why ART is important in STEAM. 

How Does the 5E Instructional Model Promote Active, Collaborative, Inquiry-Based Learning?  This article talks about the use of the 5E inquiry cycle to lesson planning to support inquiry science. This may be helpful in framing lesson design.

The National Science Education Standards (NSES p. 23) defines scientific inquiry as "the diverse ways in which scientists study the natural world and propose explanations based on the evidence derived from their work. As we consider STEAM we need to look at what inquiry science really is. This position paper can help us begin to define this for ourselves.

Getting kids excited about math and science may be as easy as finding how their interest can be explored through STEM resources!  We might consider doing outreach to parents about STEM project they can do at home with their  kids. Maybe we create a parent stem email with ideas once a month. This site gave me the idea for this.

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.

Welcome to All Things STEAM, a resource for offering library programming in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics. I know our iCenters are thinking of maker spacers etc and other things STEAM. Might we share.

NGSS prepared an appendix call Engineering Design in the NGSS.

NGSS prepared an appendix describing each of the Science and Engineering Practices. This appendix also shares how each practice looks across grade bands.