Full Description
Too often students are asked to participate in rather generic classroom activities, such as worksheets, essays, and rote memorization, which may not capture cultural interest or experience. In Society, Culture, and STEM: A Model for Student Engagement and Teacher Collaboration, teachers will learn a team-based approach to incorporating local and international cultural perspectives and experiences into a curriculum of STEM subjects. This book presents a six-phase process, Pryor-Kang Socio-cultural STEM Curriculum Development Model, for designing a socio-cultural STEM curriculum that is integrative, expansive, personal, and achievement-oriented. The Model focuses on a teacher-student-community outreach process, ongoing evaluation, solicitation of feedback, and continuous improvement through curriculum redesign or reconfiguration. In this process, a selected set of curriculum goals, interdisciplinary content learning standards, and resources are coordinated purposefully to capture multiple perspectives and needs. This book provides a newly developed pathway to enhancing STEM learning experiences!
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I: INTRODUCING A SOCIO-CULTURAL CURRICULUM
Chapter 1: What This Book Is About
Chapter 2: A Pedagogical Framework for A Socio-Cultural Stem Curriculum
PART II: DEVELOPING A SOCIO-CULTURAL STEM CURRICULUM
Chapter 3: Using Social Problems to Frame A Curriculum Theme, Essential Questions And Goals
Chapter 4: A Developmental Model for A Socio-Cultural Stem Curriculum
Chapter 5: Resources For Generating Inputs and Outputs to Your Nodes
PART III: EXAMPLE CURRICULUM THEMES AND LESSON PLANS
Chapter 6: Tackling Local and Global Challenges with Socio-Cultural Stem (Sharon M. Locke and Georgia Bracey)
Chapter 7: Contextualizing Socio-Cultural Stem Through Historical Figures and Events (Whitney G. Blankenship, Anne Aydinian-Perry, Dean P. Vesperman, And Matthew Missias)
Chapter 8: Learning About Contributions of Diverse Cultures to Socio-Cultural Stem, (Matthew Lindquist And Joseph Peters)
Chapter 9: Computer Science Education Through Socio-Cultural Steam (Lily R. Liang, Rui Kang, And Briana Wellman)
Chapter 10: Building Socio-Cultural Understanding Through Integration of Social Science And Stem In Problem-Based Lessons (Barbara O'Donnell)
Chapter 11: Using Socio-Cultural Stem To Investigate Moral And Ethical Issues: Teaching Bioethics (Adam I. Attwood, Donna F. Short, And Philip C. Short)
Appendices
About the Contributors
About the Author's
Subject Index
