TES – Amanda Glaze
“STEM, STEAM, STE2M. Anyway you spell it out, the focus in science education has shifted from individual disciplines to focus on the practices and behaviors of scientists and engineers and how they perform their craft. A large part of this, and major push in the Next Generation Science Standards and many state standards, is integrating engineering practices. At the same time, teachers frequently struggle with determining what this will look like in their classroom and, once they have a vision, how to make it happen.”(more)