A STEAM_ed Bee: An Integrated Unit Teaches Second Graders about the Importance of Pollination

Autor/inn/en	Schrodt, Katie; Winters, Jeremy; Huddleston, Tracey
Titel	A STEAM_ed Bee: An Integrated Unit Teaches Second Graders about the Importance of Pollination
Quelle	In: Science and Children, 58 (2021) 5, S.86-90 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-8148
Schlagwörter	Science Instruction; Elementary School Science; Grade 2; Elementary School Students; Teaching Methods; Interdisciplinary Approach; STEM Education; Animals; Language Arts; Advocacy; Coding + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; School year 02; 2. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 02; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; STEM; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Sprachkultur; Sozialanwaltschaft; Codierung; Programmierung
Abstract	In today's dynamic global economy, integrated units of study are particularly important. Students who are fluent in several disciplines and comfortable moving among them can make meaningful connections and maintain enhanced understandings (Sias et al. 2016). This article shares an integrated STEAM unit that is grounded in the science disciplinary core idea that plants depend on animals for pollination or to move their seeds around. Over the course of three days, a group of second-grade children explored the life of bees: What is their purpose? How do they live? Why are they important? The unit integrates three threads of learning through integrated lessons using methodology from language arts, science, math, and social studies. Students explore first through a language arts lesson that focuses on bees and advocacy. Next, the students think like a bee as they use math and coding to navigate a bee to do its jobs while avoiding predators. Last, the students put all of their learning together as they experience bees from the perspective of an apiarist. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01