1. M= Math in STEM College and Career Ready- Conference Summer, 2015

2. Welcome and Introductions  Use the Legos on your table.  Build a design that reflects your understanding of math education and how it connects to STEM  Be ready to explain how your design reflects your understanding

3. You will have one (1) minute to explore the items in your Lego Kit, and only three (3) minutes to work with your team to build a model that communicates your group’s understanding of how Math Education connects to STEM.

4. Here are the Rules  All team members take part in the activity  Everyone shares  Everyone listens  Please defer judgment  Build on the ideas of others Questions? Questions? Ready … Set … Go

5. Sharing Out  As you share out, explain the group’s understanding of how Math education connects to STEM.  Explain the group process used in completing this activity.

6. Outcomes  Engage in discussions about using STEM approach during math instruction.  Explore a 5 E lesson format as a method to integrate content standards.  Explain and Discuss ways science and math support each other and are applied.  Extend- your understanding of how the STEM philosophy can be implemented during instruction.  Evaluate where you are implementing STEM instruction and ways to continue and expand your implementation.

7. Why STEM Education?  Using the STEM approach helps make connections between content areas.  Provides students the opportunity to apply their knowledge  It's an efficient and effective way to take care of many daily demands as an educator.  The goal of STEM is to prepare our students for post-secondary study and the 21st century workforce.

8. The Behaviors of a Mathematician and of a Scientist The practice standards for each math, science and STEM all describe behaviors we want students to demonstrate through the content as they learn the content. As we plan integrated STEM lessons, how do the practice standards for each content area align and support their own content as well as and other content areas?

10. Math/Science Practices-Discussion  How did the standards connect, relate, or overlap?  Look at the verbs in all the practices, what are students doing?  What type of pedagogy do these actions represent?  What are the implication for instruction?

11. Coherence of Practices

12. Constructivist Teaching Strategy Characteristics  The learners are actively involved  The activities are interactive and student- centered  New learning is connected to previously learned concepts and skills  The teacher facilitates a process of learning in which students are responsible and autonomous.

13. STEM-Centric Pedagogy

14. 5 E Model for Lessons

15. Components of a 5E Math and Science Lesson Engagement Make connections between past and present learning experiences Anticipate activities and focus students’ thinking on the learning outcomes of current activities Real life problem or issue is proposed (context of 21 st Century Workforce)

16. 5E Instructional Model Exploration Provides a common base of experiences. Students identify and develop concepts, processes, and skills. Students manipulate materials Select and apply appropriate approaches, investigate issues, develop solutions Make connections between science, technology, engineering and math

17. 5E Instructional Model Explanation Students analyze data and information; Discuss solutions Students explain the concepts they have been exploring Students verbalize their conceptual understanding and new learning.

18. 5 E Instructional Model Elaboration/Extension- Students Extend their knowledge to apply it to solutions Refine solutions, prototypes, and/or models Apply their knowledge to practice concepts and procedures or to new situations Modify experimental procedures for further exploration Identify and analyze connections to STEM careers

19. 5 E Instructional Model Evaluate Students Assess their understandings and abilities Reflect on their answers or solutions to the problem, question, issue Participate in peer reviews Demonstrate understanding of through performance- based tasks. Teachers assess students’ understanding of key concepts and skill development

21. Project  Your grade is going to make a butterfly garden as a good habitat for butterflies.  You have an area of 240 square feet to use for the garden.  Each class will submit a design for the garden.  There are several requirements that need to be in your design.

22. Butterfly Garden Constraints Include: Elements for a good habitat for butterflies Optimal usage of 240 square feet of the garden area Raised Beds for plants and shrubs  At 3 different geometric shapes. Walkways around each bed. All components of the garden labeled

23. 5ELesson- Exploration  http://www.arkive.org/butterfly-bush/buddleja- davidii/video-01.html http://www.arkive.org/butterfly-bush/buddleja- davidii/video-01.html  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06n402OTsKg  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXDpZvdBqNY- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXDpZvdBqNY-  Read the article, Basics of Butterfly Garden and record information on your note taking form.

24. 5E Lesson Explanation  Use what you have learned about butterflies to create your garden.  Work with a partner/small group to use the grid paper to draw a draft of the garden.  Label the components  Be sure to include all the elements of the design.

25. 5E Explanation  Share the design explaining how the design: creates a perfect habitat for butterflies meets the requirements of the design

26. 5E Lesson Extension  After sharing your design and listening to the design of others, modify or add to your design to build the perfect habitat for butterflies that meet the design requirements.

27. 5 E Lesson- Evaluation  Self evaluation  Peer evaluation  Discussion- What have you learned about the habitat of butterflies?

28. Discussion of The 5 E Lesson How does the activity promote constructive thinking? What is the math content in the lesson? What is the scientific content in the lesson? What enduring understandings did students learn? What connections did you see between math and science? How can the 5E lesson be used to plan math/science lessons?

29. Planning your own 5 E Lesson Available Resources  Creating a STEM-Centric Lesson Creating a STEM-Centric Lesson  STEM Centric Unit and Lesson Template STEM Centric Unit and Lesson Template  STEM Centric Unit and Lesson Checklist STEM Centric Unit and Lesson Checklist

30. Resources  https://msde.blackboard.com/webapps/po rtal/execute/tabs/tabAction?tabId=_1272_ 1&tab_tab_group_id=_378_1 https://msde.blackboard.com/webapps/po rtal/execute/tabs/tabAction?tabId=_1272_ 1&tab_tab_group_id=_378_1  http://learnmd.org/Pages/Home.aspx http://learnmd.org/Pages/Home.aspx

31. Extend/Evaluate Your Own Learning What are your next steps implementing integrated content standards?  List 3 new understandings and learnings from this session  List 2 next steps you will take to plan and teach STEM- Centric Lessons  List 1 (or more) question or additional assistance you feel you need to begin to implement your next steps

32. Outcomes  Engage in discussions about using STEM approach during math instruction.  Explore a 5 E lesson format as a method to integrate content standards.  Explain and Discuss ways science and math support each other and are applied.  Extend- your understanding of how the STEM philosophy can be implemented during instruction.  Evaluate where you are implementing STEM instruction and ways to continue and expand your implementation.