Do you want to know how to implement authentic STEM teaching and learning into your classroom? STEM Lesson Essentials provides all the tools and strategies you will need to design integrated lessons that are relevant and engaging to your students. The authors argue that STEM is not a curriculum, but rather a way to organize instruction by weaving science, technology, engineering and mathematics together in intentional ways.

This course is OSPI STEM designated.

This course renews annually and is ongoing.You will have one year from the date of your registration to complete this course.

Registration for this course is completed through Teacher Study via the external link provided. You will pay the course registration fee to them. The clock hours for this event are sponsored by ESD 112.  When you complete the course, you will receive instructions for claiming your clock hours in pdEnroller.  You will need to upload your certificate of completion when you claim the clock hours.  Once the hours are claimed and all the steps are completed, the clock hours will record to a pdEnroller transcript. 

The fee for this course is $175. The $90 clock hour fee is in addition to the registration fee.  The clock hour fee is waived for members of the ESD 112 Clock Hour Cooperative.   

1.Students will purchase and read STEM Lesson Essentials - Integrating Science, Technology and Engineering and Mathematics by Jo Anne Vasquez, Cary Sneider and Michael Comer.

2. Students will complete answers to all of the questions on the 55 Questions, Book Study Handout.

3. Students will design a unit plan, incorporating the four disciplines of STEM; science, technology, engineering and mathematics. They will then write a 2-3 page paper describing the unit. Essential components of this paper will include activities that address each of the four disciplines and how formative assessment will be used to inform teaching and learning.