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All teachers at FCS are aware of the standards that their colleagues are teaching. During the intensive PBL planning process, teachers work in collaborative critical friends groups to hear what their colleagues are teaching. This information is then incorporated within their lesson plans. The teachers make explicit efforts to integrate other subject areas (including all STEM curriculums) into what they do on at least a weekly basis. This strategy helps students to understand the inter weavings of content, unlike traditional models which tend to silo information. Science works with ELA to develop content‐rich literacy experiences through Paideia Seminars and math to collect and analyze actual data that strengthens connections for students. Social Studies works hand in hand with Math to build personal financial understanding and also incorporates rich experiences with our students to help build content-area literacy skills. Our social studies classes also participate in the Big History Project, typically on Fridays, which incorporates how science and scientific principles have shaped the history of mankind. In all classes, STEM is expected and embedded in tasks and assignments that help contribute to students’ understanding and ability to expand upon their projects.
For example within ELA, students learn to create and build their own website that helps them compile all of their student work and evidence. In social studies, students utilize math skills to help them build their own personal budgets to see exactly how far a monthly income can go based on their education level. Math students commonly work in Tinkercad to design and print their own 3D objects using their knowledge of scale. In addition to these, each project asks students to imagine and engineer needed solutions to big problems, which can only be done by integrating knowledge from all of the core subjects and other STEM content.
For example within ELA, students learn to create and build their own website that helps them compile all of their student work and evidence. In social studies, students utilize math skills to help them build their own personal budgets to see exactly how far a monthly income can go based on their education level. Math students commonly work in Tinkercad to design and print their own 3D objects using their knowledge of scale. In addition to these, each project asks students to imagine and engineer needed solutions to big problems, which can only be done by integrating knowledge from all of the core subjects and other STEM content.
Evidence: Instruction Integrating Content
Planning Process and MaterialsSpace Survival: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1n6wkEZeWA0yo8u86Tqt9oxaU6oH1Iy7b?usp=sharinghttps://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1070344703822974976A Whole New World: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1uVFNhiskLEf31VoEcfCWEIZ6xlp8dVoJ?usp=sharingFood Truck Frenzy: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZjrRNiDj6-wwpySWzn7XUJbIOH58PfrQ?usp=sharingStudent Work Evidence of Integrated Content: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17opHFJFVSc6U86Hb_Osjxsq4dAJxNBxHVO_WQ2V5gNc/edit?usp=sharinghttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1tZIvkp-TmMVe9w2t27CiFgjGxcRqWXX-6lkYWMRpCts/edit?usp=sharinghttps://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/992123354684559360https://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/997467815610322944
Teacher Created Assignments/Lesson Plans or Critical Friends Work: https://docs.google.com/document/d/15hgwCMMr07nT6bRTaPcpXXe7FNeHuVu0T9lxAmZyF4U/edit?usp=sharinghttps://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1055813055534297089https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dk54BvFWUvUX34lRdDweimcycuRKrob4CqD8hb75DX8/edit?usp=sharinghttps://twitter.com/YerglerF/status/1192834001548922885
Pictures: https://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1215337558734856192https://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1205120643345203200https://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1202677153592008704https://twitter.com/STEMFCS/status/1197550286543343616
During our weekly faculty meetings with all teachers, we plan our cross-curricular STEM projects that students work on daily.
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