STEM Titles

The Case for Stem Education
Challenges and Opportunities

By: Roger W. Bybee
If you re an education leader concerned with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) initiatives, this book will help you both understand and implement STEM action plans. The book starts by putting STEM in context, as the
early chapters outline the challenges facing STEM education, draw lessons from  the Sputnik moment of the 1950s and 1960s, and contrast contemporary STEM with other education reforms. The author then explores appropriate roles for the federal government as well as states, districts, and individual schools. 
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Exemplary Science for Building Interest in STEM Careers

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This book explores 16 examples of ideas and experiences representing a large
number of career areas; they include scientists, engineers, inventors, and
education reformers. Many of the authors have enlisted the help of community
members and business and industry representatives, emphasizing the more current view of what science is and the importance of collaborative learning. Science is the act of humans trying to make sense of objects and events found in the natural world. It is exciting to engage students in resolving problems and issues using their own ideas. If science is personally experienced, it will attract many more to STEM careers! When teachers change their teaching, student interest increases—and more students aspire to science-related careers as well. 

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Doing Good Science in Middle School, Expanded 2nd Edition:
A Practical STEM Guide

By: Olaf Jorgenson, Rick Vanosdall, Vicki Massey, and Jackie Cleveland
With more than 130 years of combined teaching experience, the authors of “Doing Good Science” have thoroughly revised and expanded the popular first edition to provide a comprehensive, easy-to-use resource for middle school science teachers.  10 new active, engaging lessons integrate STEM instruction with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). The book covers big-picture concepts like understanding the middle school learner and exploring the nature of science with them, as well as smaller, more practical topics such as lesson planning and classroom management and safety. Whatever a teacher’s experience level, using “Doing Good Science” in the classroom will help engage the always insatiably curious middle school students in the world of science.

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Integrating Engineering + Science In your Classrooms

Edited by: Eric Brunsell
What do light sabers, potatoes, prosthetic arms, and eggs racing at breakneck speeds have in common? All included in the design challenges outlined in this
book, they’ll  reinforce important skills and science content while illustrating a wide range of STEM skills and opportunities. They’re also sure to engage and excite students of any age. To help you blend authentic and meaningful engineering activities into your teaching, this volume’s 30 chapters have been compiled from Science and Children, Science Scope, and The Science
Teacher, NSTA’s journals for elementary through high school. The activities apply to life and environmental science, Earth science, and physical science and work well in traditional classrooms as well as in after-school programs.
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Everyday Engineering
Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning

An ideal way to spark students’ fascination with the marvels of engineering behind the seemingly simple. This book is a compilation of popular “Everyday Engineering” columns from NSTA’s middle school journal, Science Scope. The collection is made up of 14 activities that explore engineering’s role in five areas: the office, the kitchen, the bathroom, electricity, and outdoor recreation. Students can perform hands-on investigations of objects they use all the time.

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