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Design-Based Learning: STEM and Simple Machines

Design-Based Learning: STEM and Simple Machines

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, engSTEAM, mathSTEAM, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, design challenge, design thinking, design-based learning, science, simple machines, STEAM, STEM

Watching children play, particularly very young children, we can see they behave scientifically. Children observe and collect. They wonder and deduce, and they’re methodical. They collaborate – sometimes! – and when they’re puzzled, they experiment and make adjustments. At whatever age STEM learning occurs, though, make no mistake: it is real STEM learning, not mere […]

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Design-Based Learning (DBL) and Challenge Learning

Posted in 4-7, 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, artSTEAM, K-3, sciSTEAM | Tagged with ADST, create make innovate, design challenge, design thinking, design-based learning, STEAM

“… we learn by doing.” So observed Aristotle in his study on how we should live, The Nicomachean Ethics, a work that is named – so scholars think – out of fondness for Aristotle’s father and son, both of whom were named Nicomachus. While obviously not a new concept to educators, the principle of learning-by-doing […]

Pop Up Making! (in LLED 350 and 360)

Pop Up Making! (in LLED 350 and 360)

Posted in 8-12, AppliedDesignSkillsTechnologies, Blog Posts, K-3 | Tagged with ADST, design, design challenge, make, makerspace, scarfe sandbox

This month, in the Scarfe Digital Sandbox (Scarfe 155) every teacher candidate in the Bed program (elementary, middle and secondary) will have the opportunity to participate in a ‘Makerspace’ as part of your orientation to Library and Information Literacy with your LLED 350 and LLED 360 course. In Scarfe 155 (through the ed lib), we’ll […]


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