Monday September 14 - Teaching STEM to Students

Course Syllabus: Teaching STEM to Students (Krajcik Chapter 1)

Enacted Curriculum: Standards DQ development.

Begin with the End in Mind

TEKS/DQ’s

· What is a driving question?

– Feasible

– Worthy

– Contextualized

– Meaningful

– Ethical

– Sustainability

– Provocative.

– Open-ended/generative.

– At the heart of a discipline or topic.

– Developed from real world dilemmas/issues that are relevant.

– Consistent with curricular standards.

· What do student deliverables look like?

– asking and refining questions

– debating ideas

– making predictions

– designing plans and/or experiments

– collecting and analyzing data

– drawing conclusions

– communicating their ideas and findings to others

– asking new questions

– creating artifacts (Blumenfeld et al., 1991).

· Two Key Elements of PBI:

– A driving question or problem that serves to organize and drive activities, which taken as a whole amount to a meaningful project

– 2. Culminating product(s) or multiple representations as a series of artifacts, personal communication (Krajcik), or consequential task that meaningfully addresses the driving question. (Brown & Campione, 1994).