Todd Stanley

10 Performance-Based STEM Projects for Grades 6-8 (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

10 Performance-Based STEM Projects for Grades 6-8 provides 10 ready-made projects designed to help students achieve higher levels of thinking and develop 21st-century skills while learning about science, technology, engineering, and math. Projects are aligned to national standards and feature crosscurricular connections, allowing students to explore and be creative as well as gain an enduring understanding. Each project is linked to national STEM education goals and represents one of a variety of performance assessments, including oral presentations, research papers, and exhibitions. Included for each project are a suggested calendar to allow teachers to easily plan a schedule, mini-lessons that allow students to build capacity and gain an understanding of what they are doing, as well as multiple rubrics that can be used to objectively assess the performance of students. The lessons are laid out in an easy-to-follow format that will allow teachers to implement the projects immediately.

Grades 6-8

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000501179
• Artikelnr.: 62526916

Autorenporträt

Todd Stanley is author of seven teacher education books including Project-Based Learning for Gifted Students: A Handbook for the 21st-Century Classroom and Performance-Based Assessment for 21st-Century Skills.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION Why Project-Based Learning? Why STEM? Why STEM and PBL? How
This Book Is Organized Project 1: Communicate Effectively Project Outline:
Logo Art Installation Suggested Timeline Lesson: What Makes a Logo
Successful? Lesson: Recycled Artwork Handout Product Rubric Project 2:
Focus on Inquiry and Collaboration Project Outline: Hall of Fame Suggested
Timeline Lesson: What Is a Hall of Fame? Handouts Product Rubric Project 3:
Understand Multiple Content Areas Project Outline: You Be the Teacher
Suggested Timeline Lesson: Effective Teaching Handouts Product Rubric
Project 4: Explore Contemporary Issues Project Outline: The Role of
Citizenship Suggested Timeline Handouts Product Rubric Project 5: Use
Technology, Math, and Reasoning Project Outline: What If You Paid the
Bills? Suggested Timeline Lesson: Budget Simulation Lesson: Budget Overview
Handouts Product Rubric Project 6: Use and Analyze Models Project Outline:
Escape Room Suggested Timeline Lesson: What Is an Escape Room? Handouts
Product Rubric Project 7: Record and Analyze Data Project Outline: Math
Portfolio Suggested Timeline Lesson: What Is Reflection? Handouts Product
Rubric Project 8: Investigate Change Over Time and Patterns Project
Outline: We Didn¿t Start the Fire Suggested Timeline Lesson: What Is Cause
and Effect? Lesson: Developing Timelines Product Rubric Project 9: Use
Computer Models or Simulations Project Outline: Planning a Road Trip
Suggested Timeline Lesson: Planning a Class Trip Handout Product Rubric
Project 10: Construct and Explain Systems Project Outline: The Business
Plan Suggested Timeline Lesson: Why Do We Have Businesses? Handouts Product
Rubric DEVELOP YOUR OWN STEM PROJECTS REFERENCES ABOUT THE AUTHOR NEXT
GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS ALIGNMENT