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• Title:Bringing STEM to the elementary classroom / edited by Linda Froschauer.
  
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• Related Title:Science and children.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Froschauer, Linda, editor.
  
• Published/Created:Arlington, Virginia : NSTA Press, National Science Teachers Association, [2016]
  

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  • Location:EDUCATION LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: LB1585 .B6865 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Science--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.
  Technology--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.
  Engineering--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.
  Mathematics--Study and teaching (Elementary)--United States.
  Curriculum planning--United States.
  
• Description:xi, 324 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:This compendium is a collection of STEM-related articles from the journal Science and Children. It provides a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics content and classroom activities for PreK-5 science teachers. -- Provided by publisher.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781681400303 print
  1681400308 print
  9781681400310 electronic book
  1681400316 electronic book
  
• Contents:Part 1: Grades prek-5
  How to develop an engineering design task
  Minding design missteps
  Teaching through trade books
  More teaching through trade books
  Part 2: Grades prek-2
  Gimme an E!
  The EDP-5E
  Can a student really do what engineers do?
  Catch me if you can!
  Inviting engineering into the science lab
  Integrating design
  Elephant trunks and dolphin tails
  Engineering adaptations
  Sailing into the digital era
  Inventing mystery machines
  Am I really teaching engineering to elementary students?
  The STEM of inquiry
  Printing the playground
  A house for Chase the dog
  Measuring success
  Part 3: Grades 3-5
  Think it, design it, build it, test it, refine it
  Community-based engineering
  Engineer it, learn it
  Designing a sound-reducing wall
  Blade structure and wind turbine function
  You and your students as green engineers
  Smashing milk cartons
  Creating a prosthetic hand
  Gliding into understanding
  A system of systems
  Blasting off with engineering
  SCAMPERing into engineering
  Wacky weather
  Straw rockets are out of this world
  Nature as inspiration
  The tightrope challenge
  Modeling water filtration.