using Picture Books to enhance Your STEAM Curriculum
STEAM projects are a fantastic way to build creative and critical thinking skills, develop problem-solving, and foster depth and complexity through project and problem-based learning. STEAM lessons and projects can integrate content standards and using picture books helps connect to content, mindset, and SEL skills. Participants walk away with integrated lessons, project ideas, and picture book connections.
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Pair fiction with nonfiction text
Bridges gap between "readers" and "nonreaders" Allows for deeper understanding of content Picture Book Series: fit into a growth mindset: Audrea Beaty series of Engineering as an example "Q is for Duck" great for early elementary (very basic but the content is good)... take idea and apply to something else... making it complex |
PBL - Problem -based or Project-based LEarning
Problem end with a project but difference in framing Project-based is meant to end with a valuable project Some book provide key term definitions in them also Blueprints for Biography STEM Series: A whole book about a person with pictures and guiding questions with clues about the person. (around $10 each).. they have a website. |
Relevant to Kodiak!!!!
Gardening... Strawberry Fields Tour... Marion Owen.... Heather Johnson? (make or use a raised garden Bed) Water... Water Reservoir... Sewage Treatment Plant... Pool... H2O Water biz.... |