Course ID: | ETES 4025E/6025E. 3 hours. |
Course Title: | Creative Activities for STEM Education |
Course Description: | Explores problem-based learning and hands-on activities that support instruction in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) using a wide array of materials and processes. Participants will develop a portfolio of activities for use with students they teach. Creativity and innovation in product design and engineering are themes in the course. |
Oasis Title: | Creative Act for STEM |
Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in ETES 4025 or ETES 6025 |
Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. |
Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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Course Objectives: | Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:
1. Approach problem solving through inquiry, persistence, locating and interpreting information, and collaborating with others.
2. Develop a portfolio of creative activities for use with relevant grade levels and courses.
3. Employ technology (tools and machines) to identify solutions for, design, and create problem-based products from a wide variety of materials.
4. Conduct research and employ technology that results in planning, developing, and constructing technology learning activities for relevant grade levels and courses.
5. Work as a member of a small group (2-4 persons) in problem-solving situations.
6. Develop a lesson plan that clearly addresses STEM content standards and integrates hands-on, problem-based learning activities for use with a K-12 class.
7. Introduce students to an engineering design process as applied to the solution of age-appropriate technological problems.
8. Equip their students with a foundational understanding of technological principles and knowledge of the designed world.
9. Design age-appropriate learning activities related to manufacturing, construction, energy and power, communication, transportation, and biotechnologies. |
Topical Outline: | Course content will be contextualized within the areas of manufacturing, construction, energy and power, communication, transportation, and biotechnologies.
Module Topics and Learning Activities
1 Overview of course, introductions
Module 1 – STEM and creativity for every student
2 Module 2 – Manufacturing
3 Module 3 – Construction
4 Module 4 – Energy, power, and transportation
5 Midterm Exam
Module 5 – Communications
6 Module 6 – Bio-technologies
7 Module 7 – Energy, power, and robotics
8 Module 8 – Finding our way
Final Exam |