Practical Steps for STEM Inquiry

Course summary

This course will help you understand what STEM is and practical steps to incorporate strategies for STEM inquiry into everyday learning experiences. It will provide you with practical examples and activities that can be used in your primary classroom.

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You will learn:

• What STEM is and the importance of an integrated teaching approach.
• How to identify concepts of STEM and make connections to everyday learning experiences.
• Strategies for STEM inquiry, including using real-world problems, posing questions and challenges, planning STEM experiences, and reflecting, restesting, and retrying.
• A range of practical activities to incorporate STEM into your teaching.
• Ways to differentiate activities to suit your learning intentions.

Course time:

This course will take you 2 hours to complete. Enjoy it in one session or spread it out over a few weeks. You will have ongoing access via your personal dashboard.

Accreditation:

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:

• 1.5.2 Develop teaching activities that incorporate differentiated strategies to meet the specific learning needs of students across the full range of abilities.
• 2.1.2 Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.
• 3.3.2 Select and use relevant teaching strategies to develop knowledge, skills, problem-solving and critical and creative thinking.
• 3.4.2 Select and/or create and use a range of resources, including ICT, to engage students in their learning.

This course is not currently accredited in the ACT (TQI) or NSW (NESA). However, it can be counted towards teacher identified learning hours (ACT) or NESA PD elective hours (NSW).

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Course Content

Introduction

01.

Introduction

02.

What is STEM?

03.

Set some learning goals

Understanding STEM Integration

04.

Integrating STEM

05.

Identifying STEM concepts

Planning a STEM Program

06.

Strategies for STEM inquiry

07.

Be inspired by the real-world

08.

Finding inspiration for STEM inquiry

09.

Posing questions and challenges

10.

Planning a STEM program

11.

Retry and recreate

12.

Share the learning

Teaching Tips

13.

Adapting STEM to your needs

14.

STEM mini challenges

15.

Strengthening your approach

16.

Reflection

Your Teaching

17.

Cool lesson plans

Reflection

18.

Taxonomy of learning

19.

Suggestions for collaboration

20.

Congratulations

Course instructors

Tracey Gray is a Scientist and an experienced science classroom teacher and early learning educator. She is passionate about creating innovative programs that integrate STEM and STEAM techniques and promote creative thinking, curiosity and problem solving. Tracey loves working with teachers and early childhood educators to improve their teaching practice and build their confidence in teaching STEM.

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)!

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