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Featured Guests

Susan Pruet is the director of Engaging Youth in Engineering, a community partnership program in Mobile, Ala., that aims to link science and math curricula with real-life engineering projects. She is a former middle grades mathematics teacher and mathematics education professor.

Deborah L. Ives is the Mathematics Instructional Leader in the Morristown, N.J. school district and Lead Content Advisor for WNET THIRTEEN’s Get the Math program. She has led curriculum design and implementation projects in music, videogame design, fashion, and engineering/aerospace.

• WNET Thirteen Get the Math

• Aerospace STEM Academy

• NAVAIR

• Additional Resources

STEM Teacher as Project ManagerDeborah L. Ives, Ed.D.

Get the Math is made possible by:

Deborah L. Ives, Ed.D., Lead Content Advisor

Essential Questions

• How can we best prepare ALL our students to understand and make sense of the world around them?

• How can we integrate reasoning and problem solving within the curriculum as a STEM Teacher /Project Manager?

NCTM Focus in HS Mathematics: Reasoning & Sense Making

• Many students have difficulty because they find mathematics meaningless…

• Reasoning and sense making should occur in every mathematics classroom every day.

NCTM 2009, pp. 5-6

Reasoning Habits of Mind

• Analyzing a problem

• Seeking and using connections

• Implementing a strategy

• Reflecting on a solutionNCTM 2009, p.9

Mathematical Practices*

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning

of others.• Model with mathematics.• Use appropriate (technology) tools strategically.• Attend to precision.• Look for and make use of structure.• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

*Common Core Standards 2010

Use Real World Applications to:

Get the Math Website

www.getthemath.org

• Full episode and video segments• Interactive challenges• Lesson Plans for Problem Based Learning• Classroom Video of Music Lesson

Problem Solving:Get the Math Scenarios

• Music and Production• Fashion Design• Videogame

Entrepreneurship

AERO-STEM ACADEMY

• Aerospace• Science• Technology• Engineering• Math

Engineering the FutureScience, Technology, and the

Design Process

High School InitiativeDeveloped by the National Center for Technological Literacy®

Published by Key Curriculum Press

Museum of Science, Boston.

Seek out partnerships within the industry to enhance relevance and rigor via internships, mentoring, fieldtrips, guest speakers, etc.

– NAVAIR Lakehurst NJ

– Lockheed Martin Moorestown NJ

– ExxonMobil Paulsboro & Clinton NJ

– DuPont Deepwater Point

Science, Technology, Engineering

and Mathematics (STEM)

MAXIMIZING COMMUNITY STEM COOPERATION

• Early student exposure to STEM.• Promoting technical visits by engineers to participating schools.• Providing NAVAIR internships and co-op programs that

encourage interest in engineering.• Nurture and sustain Education Partnerships.

PARTICIPATING IN SCHOOL EVENTS

• Judging science fairs and cardboard canoe races.• Participating in high school career development days.• Attending technical workshops and making

engineering presentations on the relevance of a STEM education.

Seek additional resources of interest to your students:

www.getthemath.orghttp://vital.thirteen.orgwww.teachersdomain.org/www.pbs.org/teacherswww.teachingchannel.org (Videos of lessons)http://nextgenlearning.org (Next Generation Learning Challenges)

www.sreb.org (Southern Regional Education Board)www.mos.org/etf (Museum of Science: Engineering the Future)www.navair.navy.mil/ (Naval Air Home Page)http://jobs.navair.navy.mil/students1.html

www.nctm.org (National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)www.nsdl.org (National Science Digital Library)

STEM Teacher as Project Manager

Deborah L. Ives, Ed.D.

EYE is a partnership- driven K-12 workforce & economic development program of the

Mobile Area Education Foundation.

Engaging Youth

through

Engineering

EYE is partially based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation, Grant #0918769. Statements made in this presentation are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the NSF.

Some Context

Alabama and MobileMobile County Public School System

(MCPSS)Mobile Area Education Foundation (MAEF)

Birthing of EYE…..in 2006

Requested by business leaders

Engage our Youth!Prepare our Youth!

We need workers with 21st century learning skills!

Influenced byMobile’s alarming drop out rate

Mayor’s report on dropouts

EYE Student OutcomesStudents will be able to

Apply knowledge of mathematics, science, and technology

Analyze and interpret data Identify, formulate, and solve problems Communicate effectively Function as part of a multidisciplinary

team Use the techniques, skills, and tools

necessary in the modern workforce Recognize the need for, and engage in,

ongoing learning

The EYE Model (1 Feeder Pattern)Need the “Multi-Dose Pack”

Elementary SchoolsDevelop Awareness and Influence BeliefsEYE Clubs and Camps

Middle Schools Engage and Motivate - ExploreInvolve business/industry volunteersCurricular and extra-curricular activities

High School Encourage and SupportProvide mentors and internships Engineering the Future course

EYE Strategies at the Middle Grades

6th, 7th, 8th Grade EYE Modules!

8th grade technology-based Career Discoveries course Electives & Clubs, e.g., BEST

Robotics

The Middle Grades Key “Dosage” 9 EYE Modules*

6th GradeEarth Science

Harnessing the Wind

Designing for

Disaster

Don’t Go with the

Flow

7th GradeLife Science

EYE on Mars

Engineering

Designer Puppies

Catch Me if You Can

8th GradePhysical Science

Balloon Rocket Cars

Designing a Roller Coaster

TBD* The development and research related to the EYE

Modules are partially funded through the NSF Grant #0918769.

EYE’s Newest Module “Catch Me if You Can”

Design challenge – create a blood clot catcher3 days in math class

Proportional reasoning (scale models)

Unit Rates (blood flow rate)4 days in science class

Circulatory system Direction of blood flow and size

and location of vessels (where is best to place the clot catcher)

Materials explorationDesign, test, evaluate, redesign,

test

EYE Industry Volunteers

Engage

•Students•My

Job – My “Story”

•Engineering Design Process

Support

•Teachers•Ext

ra pair of hands

Connect

•Teachers, Students and Industry•Workf

orce needs

•Preparation needed, e.g., math/science coursework

How to secure needed resources?• Partnerships

• Community based organization (MAEF)

• Higher education• Local business & industry

• Grants, e.g.,• Gulf of Mexico Alliance• Shell Oil• National Science Foundation

How to find the critical STEM volunteers?

Helpful to have a connector and a process–

Mobile Area Education Foundation

Web-based process

Web-based Volunteer Sign Up Processhttp://volunteer.maef.net/Login.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2fDefault.aspx

Volunteers Assist with Module ImplementationReceive Reminder

Email with School Directions

Post Feedback on Web Site

“EYE Help ” Notice Goes to Industry Liaison

Volunteers Receive Notice

Volunteers Sign Up on Web

Module Implementation Schedule is Developed

Principal Approves Teachers Approve

Teaching the EYE & STEM Way…New Skills (for many)

Key Traits (for success)

Integrating knowledge from field of “expertise” into STEM

Using engineering design as an instructional strategy

Using problems with no one right answer

Managing teams & materials

Using technology to organize, analyze, and share data

Using more web-based resources, e.g., EYE Middle Grades Wiki, You Tube videos

Enjoy learningAbility to work in multi-

disciplinary team Value inquiry based

teachingWilling to let teams make,

and learn from, mistakesKnowledge of their field

(science or math)Ability and comfort with

locating and using new resources

End Result-- Students motivated to take more math & science…as prep for STEM careers!!

Stay tuned to learn more about  EYE and  the modules - - -

www.maef.net Our Work – EYESusan Pruet: spruet@maef.net

2012-13 6th Grade Modules and STEM Lessons

2013-14 7th Grade Modules and STEM Lessons

2014-15 8th Grade Modules and STEM Lessons

Featured Guests

Susan Pruet is the director of Engaging Youth in Engineering, a community partnership program in Mobile, Ala., that aims to link science and math curricula with real-life engineering projects. She is a former middle grades mathematics teacher and mathematics education professor.

Deborah L. Ives is the Mathematics Instructional Leader in the Morristown, N.J. school district and Lead Content Advisor for WNET THIRTEEN’s Get the Math program. She has led curriculum design and implementation projects in music, videogame design, fashion, and engineering/aerospace.

An on-demand archive of this webinar is going to be available at www.edweek.org/go/PDarchives

in less than 24hrs.