Carla C Johnson, Janet B Walton, Erin Peters-Burton

Broschiertes Buch

Patterns and the Plant World, Grade 1

Stem Road Map for Elementary School

Beschreibung

What if you could challenge your first graders to relate changes in seasonal weather patterns to changes in the plant world using a container garden? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Patterns and the Plant World outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. As are the other volumes in the series, this book is designed to meet the growing need to infuse real-world learning into K-12 classrooms. The book is an interdisciplinary module that uses project- and problem-based learning to help young children make discoveries about a range of natural phenomena. Students will draw on Earth and environmental science, mathematics, engineering, English language arts, and social studies to do the following: ¿ Explore how Earth's movement around the Sun affects the planet's regional weather patterns. ¿ Observe the changes in plant life that come with the changing seasons. ¿ Use the steps of the engineering design process (EDP) to design and create a class garden for the Container Garden Design Challenge. ¿ Design an observation notebook to record data about their garden, with an emphasis on data collection, measurement, and presenting numerical data in graphic form. The STEM Road Map Curriculum Series is anchored in the Next Generation Science Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and the Framework for 21st Century Learning. In-depth and flexible, Patterns and the Plant World can be used as a whole unit or in part to meet the needs of districts, schools, and teachers who are charting a course toward an integrated STEM approach.

Autor

Dr. Johnson is a Professor of Science Education, Executive Director of the Artificial Intelligence Academy, and Faculty Research Fellow at NCSU. She has been awarded and managed over 75 million in external funding for research and programming across her career – all focused on making STEM for all students a reality. Dr. Johnson has served as an expert advisor to the Office of Science and Technology Policy and has led research and evaluation projects for NASA and the Department of Defense. Dr. Johnson has led several large-scale STEM initiatives, such as the STEM Road Map Curriculum Project and the Handbook of Research on STEM Education (2020), in which the second edition is in progress. Dr. Johnson currently serves as the elected Chair of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) and the Special Interest Group (SIG) for Science Teaching and Learning. She is on the editorial board of the journal Trends in Higher Education and served as the Editor of the School Science and Mathematics research journal for a decade 2011-21. Dr. Johnson has worked with thousands of teachers across the U.S. through professional development and training programs. She has also worked with over 50 schools leading their STEM School strategic planning process. Dr. Johnson has received many national awards for her research. Across her career she has published over 50 peer reviewed research articles, 33 books, and 9 book chapters, as well as dozens of evaluation reports for associated federal and state-level STEM evaluation projects. She has developed an industry partner network for the AI Academy comprised of over 100 organizations which are engaged in growing access for historically excluded and underserved individuals to high school instruction, adult workforce development, and college/career paths in artificial intelligence/IT.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nsta - National Science Teaching Association
• Seitenzahl: 219
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 274mm x 213mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781681405070
• ISBN-10: 1681405075
• Artikelnr.: 53929507