The Modern World
This project-based learning assignment is proposed for students who are currently in or have previously taken a Geometry class. The project’s goal is to connect science, math, engineering, and technology to the real world by introducing the students to th
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A COMPANION TO INTERDISCIPLINARY STEM PROJECT-BASED LEARNING For Educators by Educators (Second Edition)
Edited by Mary Margaret Capraro Texas A&M University & Aggie STEM, USA Jennifer G. Whitfield Texas A&M University, USA Matthew J. Etchells Texas A&M University, USA and Robert M. Capraro Texas A&M University & Aggie STEM, USA
A C.I.P. record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
ISBN: 978-94-6300-484-8 (paperback) ISBN: 978-94-6300-485-5 (e-book)
Published by: Sense Publishers, P.O. Box 21858, 3001 AW Rotterdam, The Netherlands https://www.sensepublishers.com/
All chapters in this book have undergone peer review.
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We at Aggie STEM are glad you have an interest in this book and the work of the enthusiastic and very dedicated STEM educators who contributed to it. Everyone involved strives to improve STEM education to help others implement standards-based instruction that takes learning in isolation to greater accountability through integrated and meaningful tasks that answer the question every teachers dreads, “When am I going to use this?” This book was developed through the Aggie STEM mantra “Group Responsibility and Individual Accountability”. The group assumed responsibility, but every author and each editor was individually accountable for the content and quality of his or her Project-Based Learning Activity. Of this, I am proud; the team could not have been a better embodiment of STEM Project-Based Learning nor a better model of how to develop a learning and teaching tool for today’s teachers wanting to implement STEM instruction in their classrooms. This book was the hard work of teachers who are currently graduate students working on their masters or doctoral degrees and preservice teachers who are learning about STEM project-based learning and planning to use it in their classrooms. My favorite analogy is that of a master chef. Consider yourself a teaching chef and this, a book of favorite family recipes. However, you are cooking, or teaching, for a different audience. There is no substitute for knowing your audience and teaching to its strengths and addressing its weaknesses. So consider each lesson as a tasty idea ready to be modified to meet your own style and the needs of your students. Feel free to teach it as is and try the lesson out or change it. And don’t think it strange if when you teach it the following year you modify it again. The proof of a really great idea is that it can fit into so many new situations, and modifying a lesson is a tribute to yourself and the author. Go teach something gre
