A companion to interdisciplinary STEM project-based learning : : for educators by educators / / edited by Mary Margaret Capraro [and three others].

This text contains 25 Project-Based Learning (PBL) lessons written by a combination of undergraduate preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and graduate students. Everyone who wrote a chapter strives to improve STEM education to help others implement standards-based STEM instruction that takes lea...

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Place / Publishing House:Rotterdam, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] ;, Taipei, [Taiwan] : : Sense Publishers,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:Second edition.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (VIII, 214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN
  • Antenna Dilemma
  • Building a Better Cereal Box
  • Building a Better Tomorrow: Designing the Home of the Future
  • Cell Communities
  • Classrooms That Improve Education
  • Design Your Own High Tech High School
  • Egg Drop Parachute
  • Fuzzy Decisions: How Control Systems Are Developed
  • Mars: The First Frontier
  • WATER
  • Aquaponics
  • Dam: Will It Hold?
  • Harmful Algal Blooms: Seeking a Solution for Our Safety
  • Healthy Water Is Well Water: Homemade Water Filtration
  • Sink or Float? You Be the Judge
  • The Water Flows through It: Design and Build an Irrigation System
  • ENVIRONMENT
  • Carbon Footprint Reduction
  • Renewable Energy Sources
  • The Modern World: Plastic Pollution Shown through Fibonacci Numbers
  • MIXTURES
  • Experimenting with Modeling Clay Recipes
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of White Powders and Clear Liquids
  • Soap Making and Packaging
  • TECHNOLOGY
  • Emotion, Technology & The Body: The Role of Each in Technological Communication
  • Game of Charging
  • NUTRITION AND GENETICS
  • Eat Healthy at Fast Food Restaurants
  • Survival of the Fittest: Flying Hamster Genetics.