Connecting Science and Engineering Education Practices in Meaningful Ways

Part I. Setting the Stage…The Culture and the Challenges

1. Creating Disruptive Innovators: Serious Educational Game Design on the Technology and Engineering Spectrum
David Nelson, Leonard A. Annetta

2. Grand Challenges for Engineering Education
Cary Sneider

Part II. Student-Centered Design…Exemplary Projects and Programs that Transfer Theory to Practice

3. Museum Design Experiences That Recognize New Ways to Be Smart
Dorothy Bennett, Peggy Monahan, Margaret Honey

4. Five Principles for Supporting Design Activity
Catherine N. Langman, Judith S. Zawojewski, Stephanie R. Whitney

5. Studio STEM: A Model to Enhance Integrative STEM Literacy Through Engineering Design
Michael A. Evans, Christine Schnittka, Brett D. Jones, Carol B. Brandt

6. Instrumental STEM (iSTEM): An Integrated STEM Instructional Model
Daniel L. Dickerson, Diana V. Cantu, Stephanie J. Hathcock, William J. McConnell, Doug R. Levin

7. Robotics Education Done Right: Robotics Expansion™, A STEAM Based Curricula
Anthony J. Nunez

8. Designing Serious Educational Games (SEGs) for Learning Biology: Pre-service Teachers’ Experiences and Reflections
Meng-Tzu Cheng, Ying-Tien Wu

Part III. Preparing Teachers for the Grand Challenges…Exemplary Professional Development Practices

9. Language of Design Within Science and Engineering
Nicole Weber, Kristina Lamour Sansone

10. Teaching with Design Thinking: Developing New Vision and Approaches to Twenty-First Century Learning
Shelley Goldman, Molly B. Zielezinski

11. Elementary School Engineering for Fictional Clients in Children’s Literature
Elissa Milto, Kristen Wendell, Jessica Watkins, David Hammer, Kathleen Spencer, Merredith Portsmore, Chris Rogers

12. Teaching Engineering Design in Elementary Science Methods Classes
Christine D. Tippett

13. Infusing Engineering Concepts into High School Science: Opportunities and Challenges
Rodney Custer, Arthur Eisenkraft, Kristen Wendell, Jenny Daugherty, Julie Ross

14. How Do Secondary Level Biology Teachers Make Sense of Using Mathematics in Design-Based Lessons About a Biological Process?
Charlie Cox, Birdy Reynolds, Anita Schuchardt, Christian Schunn

15. Final Commentary: Connecting Science and Engineering Practices: A Cautionary Perspective
Michael P. Clough, Joanne K. Olson

Avainsanat: Education, Science Education, Engineering/Technology Education, Learning & Instruction