Teaching STEAM Through Hands-On Crafts

Real-World Maker Lessons for Grades 3-8

Christine G. Schnittka, Amanda Haynes (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

250 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-54965-1 (ISBN)

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This book provides guidance for turning classic crafts into STEAM lessons for grades 3-8. Ready-to-use lessons outline the history, science, mathematics, and engineering embedded within ten crafts from around the world. Supplemented with handouts and guiding questions, this book helps make STEM concepts tangible for your students.

Help your students connect historic technologies with today’s STEAM concepts through the lens of crafting! This book, written by a science education professor and a middle school STEM teacher, provides guidance for turning classic crafts into transdisciplinary STEAM lessons for grades 3–8. Ready-to-use lessons outline the history, science, mathematics, and engineering embedded within ten hands-on crafts from around the world. Each chapter outlines the history of a craft, its social impact, and the mathematics, engineering, and scientific concepts and skills embedded in the craft. Content standards from art, history, English language arts, technology, mathematics, and science are embedded within each unit. Lessons are supplemented with ready-to-photocopy handouts, guiding questions, and logistical support such as shopping lists and safety procedures. Activities have all been classroom-tested to ensure appropriate leveling and applicability across STEAM disciplines. Ideal for any STEM or STEAM classroom across upper elementary and middle schools, this book helps make STEM concepts meaningful and tangible for your students. Rather than just reading about science, technology, mathematics, or engineering, students will become makers and engage in STEAM directly, just as original crafters have done for centuries.

Additional instructional materials are available at: https://steamcrafts.weebly.com/

Christine G. Schnittka is the Emily R. and Gerald S. Leischuck Professor of Critical Needs in Education in Auburn University’s College of Education, USA. Amanda Haynes is the STEM teacher at Discovery Middle School in Madison, Alabama, USA.

1. Introduction to STEAM Crafts 2. Twisty Twine 3. Warp and Weft 4. Clean Chemistry 5. Practical Paper 6. Brilliant Beeswax 7. Plant Pigments 8. Milk Metamorphosis 9.Fungal Food 10. Clay Creations 11. Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Zusatzinfo	4 Tables, black and white; 1 Line drawings, black and white; 148 Halftones, black and white; 149 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	490 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Grundschule
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Schulpädagogik / Sekundarstufe I+II
ISBN-10	1-032-54965-3 / 1032549653
ISBN-13	978-1-032-54965-1 / 9781032549651
Zustand	Neuware