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Interdisciplinary Project Planning Framework

Catlin Tucker

When I was at TCEA last week, a teacher approached me after one of my sessions to ask if I had ever written about my experience planning interdisciplinary projects. So, I wanted to share the framework that my teaching team (English, history, and science) used when planning large scale interdisciplinary projects.

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How to incorporate real-world connections into any subject area

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This interaction helps students connect the dots, understanding that the products they use have origins in distant places, such as the Amazon rainforest. Despite it being thousands of miles away, I challenge students to consider why they should care. or Why should I care? I will never use this. According to Moser et.

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5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

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Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable. These strategies don’t just teach STEM–they empower students, showing them how they can use STEM to understand and shape the world around them.

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3 best practices to create a STEM-focused school

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We are a STEM-based charter school network serving more than 3,900 students in grades K-12 at seven different campuses. STEM isn’t just something we teach; it’s interwoven in the work we do inside and outside of the schoolhouse. It’s not too difficult to think of ways to create engaging STEM learning in a chemistry or computer class.

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Mesa Public Schools and S.A.V.E. Consortium Name CoderZ as Approved Vendor

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The suite includes scaffolded and leveled, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support STEM, computer science, coding, robotics, and SEL in engaging ways, and to embrace all learners from any and every background. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot.

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How NGSS transforms science class with hands-on learning

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I’ve been teaching for more than 30 years, and this is the most excited I’ve ever seen students. During this process, students are engaged in their learning and gain a deeper understanding of the science concept being taught. The practices support interdisciplinary learning, too. What’s changed?

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New Data Science Standards Are Needed for a Data-Filled World. Here’s What We Propose.

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These antiquated curricula have discouraged many students from persisting in STEM fields, and exacerbated inequities prevalent in the U.S. A different approach to teaching mathematics is needed—one that develops data literacy for all students. In most districts in the U.S., Establishing standards is only the first step, though.

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