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Why Reflect within the Design Process?
Reflection in STEAM is essential to both student understanding and teacher evaluation of students' learning. Reflecting helps students make connections, understand their successes and failures, and become aware of their learning. Reflections help teachers identify where students are in their learning process.
Reflection in STEAM is essential to both student understanding and teacher evaluation of students' learning. Reflecting helps students make connections, understand their successes and failures, and become aware of their learning. Reflections help teachers identify where students are in their learning process.
- Five-step Engineering Design Process developed by the Museum of Science in Boston to guide most STEM lessons and activities.
- Explanation of this process
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How to Grade STEM
How to Introduce S.T.E.M. Expectations
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings The book brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data or just write down their thoughts. You also get four steps to starting your own notebook, plus mini-bios of the diverse featured scientists. Written in captivating rhyme, the text is sprinkled with lively illustrations.
Free STEM Mini Journals ( K - 5) Use these to help guide students through the STEM process and also Every engineering design challenge requires the engineering design process to find a solution. These worksheets walk students through the design process by providing space for recording data and consideration of each step. Your students will be solving problems like real engineers with these worksheets. Click here.
Writing like a Scientist K-5
Lab Sheets gr. 3-6
STEAM journals in your classroom - without a lot of teacher prep. Includes a single-point rubric you can use for student self-reflection and a list of mentor texts and resources for students. Provides examples, of famous scientist journals.
Student interest surveys to connect learning to their world
Engineering Design Process Rubric Gr. 5- 12
Activities for Metacognition - You will find some great activities to get your students to think about thinking from the DePaul Teaching Commons.
15 Assessments That Don't Suck
Authentic Assessment Toolbox
4 C's Assessment Rubric
Engineering Design Rubric
GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names. Assessment Points in the Engineering Design Process
How to Introduce S.T.E.M. Expectations
Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings The book brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data or just write down their thoughts. You also get four steps to starting your own notebook, plus mini-bios of the diverse featured scientists. Written in captivating rhyme, the text is sprinkled with lively illustrations.
Free STEM Mini Journals ( K - 5) Use these to help guide students through the STEM process and also Every engineering design challenge requires the engineering design process to find a solution. These worksheets walk students through the design process by providing space for recording data and consideration of each step. Your students will be solving problems like real engineers with these worksheets. Click here.
Writing like a Scientist K-5
Lab Sheets gr. 3-6
STEAM journals in your classroom - without a lot of teacher prep. Includes a single-point rubric you can use for student self-reflection and a list of mentor texts and resources for students. Provides examples, of famous scientist journals.
Student interest surveys to connect learning to their world
Engineering Design Process Rubric Gr. 5- 12
Activities for Metacognition - You will find some great activities to get your students to think about thinking from the DePaul Teaching Commons.
15 Assessments That Don't Suck
Authentic Assessment Toolbox
4 C's Assessment Rubric
Engineering Design Rubric
GoClass is a free iPad application for creating short lessons and delivering them to your students. The lessons can include annotated images, free hand sketches, text, and video. GoClass gives teachers tools for creating class rosters that they can use to keep track of which students are using the lessons when. Teachers also have the option to ask questions and poll their students. After the students' response have been gathered teachers can project those responses without showing individual student's names. Assessment Points in the Engineering Design Process
Presentations to Show Understanding
Nearpod iOS app and/or website that teachers can use to create quizzes, polls, and multimedia presentations. Those materials can be shared directly to students who have the Nearpod student app installed. Teachers can view students' responses individually or as a whole class. video
Biz Movie is an engaging way to assess student learning in a project. Students in grades 3-6 show what they know and can do by creating animated movies. Students also learn the basics of entrepreneurship and business as they create and run movie companies.
Spiral free - lets teachers and students create free virtual classrooms where students can create collaborative presentations, view and respond to presentations, and/or watch YouTube videos with easily-created teacher questions. It has other features as well.
Creatubbles video Share links to your artwork with family and friends. Start galleries and invite others to join. Explore art made by other young artists from around the world. Leave comments and Bubbles on the pieces you like.
Biz Movie is an engaging way to assess student learning in a project. Students in grades 3-6 show what they know and can do by creating animated movies. Students also learn the basics of entrepreneurship and business as they create and run movie companies.
Spiral free - lets teachers and students create free virtual classrooms where students can create collaborative presentations, view and respond to presentations, and/or watch YouTube videos with easily-created teacher questions. It has other features as well.
Creatubbles video Share links to your artwork with family and friends. Start galleries and invite others to join. Explore art made by other young artists from around the world. Leave comments and Bubbles on the pieces you like.
Digital Portfolios
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school and share it with their teachers, parents, classmates, and even the world. IOS, Android and website
Edmodo | Where Learning Happens
Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner New Ways To Get The Most From Edmodo Discussions
FreshGrade is a tool for educators looking to create digital portfolios of their students work. The way this works is through an easy to use mobile app (i.e. parents, students, and teachers) that allows teachers to capture student work through, video, audio, photos, text (notes), etc. Also, FreshGrade easily allows educators to share student's work through a tap of a button, to either the student or parent. Finally, using the web app a user can use FreshGrade to assign activities, assess them in real-time, and even differentiate instruction.
Seesaw is a student-driven digital portfolio that empowers students of any age to independently document what they are learning at school and share it with their teachers, parents, classmates, and even the world. IOS, Android and website
Edmodo | Where Learning Happens
Edmodo provides a safe and easy way for your class to connect and collaborate, share content, and access homework, grades and school notices. Our goal is to help educators harness the power of social media to customize the classroom for each and every learner New Ways To Get The Most From Edmodo Discussions
FreshGrade is a tool for educators looking to create digital portfolios of their students work. The way this works is through an easy to use mobile app (i.e. parents, students, and teachers) that allows teachers to capture student work through, video, audio, photos, text (notes), etc. Also, FreshGrade easily allows educators to share student's work through a tap of a button, to either the student or parent. Finally, using the web app a user can use FreshGrade to assign activities, assess them in real-time, and even differentiate instruction.