Dr. Alice Christie's Workshop:
Enhancing STEAM Learning in Your K-8 Classroom
Dr. Christie's May 21, 2018 STEAM Workshop
- STEAM Overview
- STEAM Unit: Marbled Crayfish GoogleTrek™
- ENGAGE
(Generate interest, access prior knowledge, connect to past knowledge, set parameters of the focus, frame the idea)
- EXPLORE
(Experience key concepts; discover new skills; probe, inquire, and question experiences, examine thinking, establish relationships and understanding)
- EXPLAIN
(Connect prior knowledge and background to new discoveries, communicate new understandings, connect informal language to formal language
- EXTEND
(Apply new learning to a new or similar situation, extend and explain concept being explored, communicate new understanding with formal language)
- EVALUATE ((Assess understanding (self, peer and teacher evaluation), demonstrate understanding of new concept by observation or open- ended response, apply within problem situation, show evidence of accomplishment)
Exit Ticket
- How did your understanding of STEM/STEAM education deepen?
- What instructional strategies did you see modeled today that yo
can use in your classroom?
- What technology tools did you see modeled today that yo
can incorporate into your classroom?
Mind Maps and Word Clouds Created During the Workshop
STEM/STEAM Resources
Examples of STEM Curriculum Maps and Guides
(From a random
Google search with no guarantee of quality or purpose)
Mini-Lessons
- Kindergarten - Learning to Graph
- First Grade - Shapes and Colors Jigsaw Puzzles
- Second Grade -
- Third Grade -
- Fourth Grade - Building 3D Structures with Toothpicks and Candy
- Fifth Grade - Which paper shape is the strongest? Why?
- Sixth Grade - Memory Tray
- Seventh Grade -
- Eighth Grade - Categorizing
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