A Companion to Interdisciplinary STEM Project-Based Learning For Educators by Educators (Second Edition) /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Capraro, Mary Margaret (Editor), Whitfield, Jennifer G. (Editor), Etchells, Matthew J. (Editor), Capraro, Robert M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Rotterdam : SensePublishers : Imprint: SensePublishers, 2016.
• Subjects: Education.; Education, general.

This text contains 25 Project-Based Learning (PBL) lessons written by a combination of undergraduate preservice teachers, inservice teachers, and graduate students. Everyone who wrote a chapter strives to improve STEM education to help others implement standards-based STEM instruction that takes lea...

Table of Contents:

• CONSTRUCTION AND DESIGN
• Antenna Dilemma
• Building a Better Cereal Box
• Building a Better Tomorrow: Designing the Home of the Future
• Cell Communities
• Classrooms That Improve Education
• Design Your Own High Tech High School
• Egg Drop Parachute
• Fuzzy Decisions: How Control Systems Are Developed
• Mars: The First Frontier
• WATER
• Aquaponics
• Dam: Will It Hold?
• Harmful Algal Blooms: Seeking a Solution for Our Safety
• Healthy Water Is Well Water: Homemade Water Filtration
• Sink or Float? You Be the Judge
• The Water Flows through It: Design and Build an Irrigation System
• ENVIRONMENT
• Carbon Footprint Reduction
• Renewable Energy Sources
• The Modern World: Plastic Pollution Shown through Fibonacci Numbers
• MIXTURES
• Experimenting with Modeling Clay Recipes
• Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of White Powders and Clear Liquids
• Soap Making and Packaging
• TECHNOLOGY
• Emotion, Technology & The Body: The Role of Each in Technological Communication
• Game of Charging
• NUTRITION AND GENETICS
• Eat Healthy at Fast Food Restaurants
• Survival of the Fittest: Flying Hamster Genetics.