Engaging Eager and Reluctant Learners - Stem Learning in Action

This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning.

List of contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Basic STEM Concepts: Providing Different Avenues to Understanding
Chapter 2: STEM Instruction
Chapter 3: Science and Mathematics: The Power of Inquiry and Problem Solving
Chapter 4: Engineering and Technology: Imaginatively Integrating STEM Subjects
In the Classroom
Chapter 5: STEM: Past, Present, and FUTURE
Chapter 6: Evaluating STEM Learning: Informative Assessment, Lesson Plans and Activities

About the author

Dennis Adams is a former elementary school teacher who has taught at the University of Minnesota, University of Maine, and McGill University in Montreal. He did graduate work at Harvard University and has a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. He is the author of more than 25 books and more than a hundred journal articles on various educational topics.

Mary Hamm has taught at Ohio State University and the University of Colorado. More recently, she has been teaching at San Francisco State University. She has worked on both math and science standards and has published more than a dozen books and eighty journal articles on these subjects.

Summary

This book will help educators design STEM programs and lessons that foster teamwork and thinking while getting students actively involved in their own learning.

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Adams, Dennis Hamm Adams, Mary Hamm, Mary Adams Hamm, Hamm Mary
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.03.2017
• EAN: 9781475834468
• ISBN: 978-1-4758-3446-8
• No. of pages: 170
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; EDUCATION / Special Education / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Technology / General, Teaching skills and techniques, Teaching of students with different educational needs, Teaching skills & techniques, Teaching of a specific subject, Educational: Technology, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General, EDUCATION / Teaching / Methods & Strategies