The following checklist from Step into STEAM, Grades K-5, includes the crucial elements to incorporate into your STEAM PBL as you embark on a STEAM inquiry using a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) framework.
Whether you will be building your STEAM physical space in your regular classroom setting, have an already-defined STEAM lab in your school, or are conceptualizing other ideas for STEAM physical spaces, consider the following excerpt from Step Into STEAM, Grades K-5, to understand what a STEAM classroom atmosphere looks like—and doesn’t look like.
Use this template from the second edition of From STEM to STEAM to guide you as you design a STEAM unit across grade levels at your school.
"In our work with schools and districts developing integrated STEAM infrastructures, we have found that STEAM instruction can deepen students’ mathematics and science learning, serve as an avenue to engage each and every student, and expose students to STEAM careers (Bush & Cook, 2019)."
Read more from Kristin Cook and Sarah Bush, authors of Step Into STEAM, Grades K-5, on Corwin Connect.