Integrating STEM Through Project-Based Learning

This course will help you understand how group work can be used to improve student learning, and deepen students’ experience of and engagement with topics. You’ll learn:

• • What STEM is and why it is important
  • What Project-based Learning is
  • How Project-based Learning is relevant to STEM
  • The steps for completing project-based learning
  • TIps and tricks for completing project-based STEM with your students.

• Science.
• Mathematics.
• Design and Techhnology.
• General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking.

This course is mapped to the Professional Standards for Teachers. It is accredited for teacher professional development hours in the following states and territories:

Proficient Teacher – all states and territories except NSW
3.3 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem solving and critical and creative thinking.
4.1 Establish and implement inclusive and positive interactions to engage and support all students in classroom activities.

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This course is accredited by TQI for 2 hours professional development for teachers in the ACT.

Krista Nisi is the Head Writer at Cool Australia and brings over 15 years of experiencing working in education, tertiary and local government. She holds a Masters in Environment (Environmental Education) from the University of Melbourne. Krista looks for innovative ways to involve young people in early learning and school education by helping them explore, think about and engage with the world around them.

Mark Drummond from Cool Australia is your course teacher. He has worked in the education sector for over 11 years as a classroom teacher, Leader of Pedagogy within an Ed-Tech startup and as an educational consultant. Mark is an absolute science nerd and loves talking about dinosaurs as much as he loves talking about education (which is a lot)!