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View article: Essential Practices and Attributes of Integrated STEM in Elementary Education
Essential Practices and Attributes of Integrated STEM in Elementary Education Open
Throughout the 21st century, STEM education’s effectiveness remains a focal point for researchers, policymakers, and employers. Despite substantial investments, student engagement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics has re…
View article: Connecting Compassion: Empathy's Role in <scp>STEM</scp> and Literacy Integration
Connecting Compassion: Empathy's Role in <span>STEM</span> and Literacy Integration Open
Empathy, an unsung, yet critical element of learning, can be strategically interlaced with literacy instruction and engineering design to create a rich and authentic learning experience for students. Integrated STEM education rests on the …
View article: Elementary teachers' self-efficacy and its role in STEM implementation
Elementary teachers' self-efficacy and its role in STEM implementation Open
To equip students with 21st-century skills, teachers must have both deep STEM content knowledge and the confidence to implement and teach appropriate STEM content. Many elementary teachers have inadequate STEM background knowledge, low con…
View article: STEL Practice and the Integration of Tinkering and&nbsp;Take Apart in the Elementary Classroom&nbsp;
STEL Practice and the Integration of Tinkering and Take Apart in the Elementary Classroom Open
Over the past two decades the Standards for Technological Literacy (STL) (ITEEA, 2000) have challenged educators to search for strategies to implement and address improvements in technological literacy rates among P-12 students. Capobianco…
View article: Project Probase: Design For Pre Engineering Education
Project Probase: Design For Pre Engineering Education Open
Background and OverviewEngineering education is confronting some significant pipeline challenges at the K-12 level in preparing students for university engineering education programs.These problems include a lack of engineering career awar…
View article: Integrating Informational Text and STEM: An Innovative and Necessary Curricular Approach
Integrating Informational Text and STEM: An Innovative and Necessary Curricular Approach Open
Recent standards-based reforms call for the use of a variety of informational texts at the elementary level. Informational texts are essential for implementing integrated problem-based science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STE…
View article: Expanding Earth Science in STEM: A Model
Expanding Earth Science in STEM: A Model Open
Despite the national call for STEM preparation, there is still a need to foster student interest in STEM at an early age. Although stakeholders have begun to develop STEM curricula at the elementary level, many of these focus on single dis…