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Victoria Damjanovic; Jennifer Ward – School Science and Mathematics, 2024
Integrating STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) in authentic ways is often overlooked in early childhood spaces, despite young children having the ability to engage with the world around them through STEM practices. This piece showcases the work of children in a prekindergarten classroom as they explored an integrated STEM…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Preschool Education, Playgrounds, Active Learning
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Penelope Georges; Sami Kahn – Biomedical Engineering Education, 2025
Rapid advancements in bioengineering call for broad public literacy to help individuals better understand the changes these technologies bring to our lives. However, making bioengineering concepts accessible and relevant, especially to non-science majors, is often challenging. To address this challenge, we designed a general education course aimed…
Descriptors: Biology, Engineering, Engineering Education, Teaching Methods
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Wendy Haw; Adam Crawford – Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, 2025
This article illustrates the potential for hackathons to serve as an innovative educational tool in addressing the underrepresentation of minority communities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. Using Merced, California--a region recognised for its agricultural economy, socioeconomic disparities, and diverse…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Disproportionate Representation, STEM Education
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McKinney, Earl, Jr.; Niese, Bethany; Bhatia, Mantek Singh – Journal of Information Systems Education, 2023
Active learning pedagogy has many documented benefits, and while several positive examples of its recent use in STEM classes have led to better performance, greater diversity, more equity, and improved retention of underrepresented student populations, more research in IS and IT classrooms is needed. Most active learning exercises are in a…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Audience Response Systems, Teaching Methods, Data Analysis
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DelPiano, Dylan – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2021
The Buck Institute for Education defines Project-Based Learning as, "a teaching method in which students gain knowledge and skills by working for an extended period of time to investigate and respond to an authentic, engaging, and complex question, problem, or challenge." (What is PBL, 2020). The idea behind this teaching technique is to…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Electronic Learning, Middle School Students
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Nicole Pearce; Jill Davis – Dimensions of Early Childhood, 2024
Engaging pre-service teachers in STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) challenges offers active learning experiences that promote an understanding of the significance of STEAM in early childhood education. By integrating community, cultural, and personal assets, STEAM becomes a versatile approach with endless opportunities for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, STEM Education, Art Education
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Lange, Alissa A.; Rice, Erin; Howe, Noell; Tian, Qiuju – Science and Children, 2021
In this challenge, the authors wanted to support students' knowledge of light and the ways in which it interacts with other materials through a series of connected learning experiences. These experiences are related to "NGSS standard 1-PS4-3 Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer. Plan and conduct investigations…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Elementary School Students, STEM Education, Learning Activities
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Wu, Pei-Ying; Arias, Sharon; Hernandez, Jacqueline – Science and Children, 2021
The project described in this article took place in fall 2019 and lasted for seven months in a preschool classroom consisting of a master teacher, teacher and assistants, and 21 children (ages 3-5) within a university-based early childhood education center that serves children from birth through six years old. The teachers began the inquiry,…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Educational Planning, Preschool Education
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Victoria Akin; Emily Braley; Jack Bookman – Journal of Faculty Development, 2023
This article describes a one semester Professional Development for Teaching (PDT) seminar designed for mathematics Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) that focuses on the implementation of active-learning techniques. The PDT seminar models active-learning strategies so GTAs have experiences to draw on when teaching undergraduate classes. A…
Descriptors: Models, Active Learning, Faculty Development, Seminars
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Stuart White – International Journal of Designs for Learning, 2024
In 2017 Purdue evGrand Prix hired a K-12 Indiana public educator (the author) to write instructional material that could be implemented into participating teams' high school science and engineering classrooms. The goal was to create science-based integrated STEM learning experiences that complement the construction and racing of a 48-volt electric…
Descriptors: Novices, Decision Making, Instructional Materials, Material Development
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Helen Boylan; Alison L. DuBois; Brian Petrus – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
In recent years, employers have expressed concerns that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, though proficient in their academic disciplines, lack the critical skills necessary for success in the workplace (Karimi & Pina, 2021). Additionally, many non-STEM majors do not develop the basic STEM competencies that…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teamwork, Undergraduate Students
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Eury Hong; Anthony M. Perry – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2023
Community-based Project-Based Learning (PBL) is a promising practice to improve secondary STEM education. In these projects, students design and conduct authentic investigations with community stakeholders and technical experts. The work culminates with a public display of authentic artifacts like evidence-based advocacy reports or engineering…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Instructional Materials, Video Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Christensen, Brad – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2021
The value of doing projects as a vehicle for instruction has been integral to technology and engineering classes for decades. With the increased emphasis on STEM, project-based learning is becoming more popular with all teachers. Realistically, classrooms can be limited, however, in the tools, materials, and processes needed for project-based…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Student Projects, Active Learning
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Grangeat, Michel; Harrison, Christine; Dolin, Jens – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This article introduces this special issue by addressing the types of assessment practices that are possible within STEM inquiry classrooms, where the focus is on noticing, developing, and improving inquiry competencies. Three domains are explored: informal formative assessment occurring in classroom interactions; structured formative assessment…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, STEM Education, Inquiry, Active Learning
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Amedee Marchand Martella; Darryl W. Schneider – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2024
Interest in active learning continues to grow worldwide. Although the large volume of active learning research has provided a myriad of ways to implement active learning in the classroom, the construct remains underdeveloped and difficult to operationalize because of three main issues in the research literature: (a) the confusion surrounding what…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Educational Research, Learning Activities, Theory Practice Relationship
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