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Description
Defined STEM is a web-based application designed to promote effective and relevant connections between STEM classroom content and STEM career pathways, thus providing learning opportunities for students. The Defined STEM annual subscription allows teachers and students access to all video content, guiding questions and additional resources which help to reinforce STEM topics.
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The key to Defined STEM is in the “STEM Connection.” Designed by Defined Learning, a STEM Connection, is a revolutionary way to present curriculum and real world relevancy content in one self contained unit.
Bringing Relevance to the Classroom
Defined STEM is Defined Learning's solution for providing real world relevance to students. Defined STEM is a web-based application designed to promote effective and relevant connections between STEM classroom content and STEM career pathways, thus providing learning opportunites for students. Defined STEM provides teachers a resource where they can access highly effective content and related support materials. These resources and materials allow teachers to connect STEM career awareness to existing lessons and standards-based curriculum.
These self contained units are aligned to state standards and incorporate:
- Video
- Performance Tasks with corresponding rubrics
- Virtual Lab Simulations
- Student Projects
- and much, much more
STEM Connections
There are over 1,000 connections in Defined STEM. A connection is a self contained unit which helps the teacher demonstrate relevance to their students through real world applications.
- Careers based video that show individuals in their daily careers, demonstrating the importance of math and science.
- Objectives and guiding questions for the teachers to utilize.
- "Performance Tasks" that create a project based environment for the classroom where students are challenged to asolve a situation using a multi-disciplinary approach.
- Interactive virtual-lab "simulations", supported by activities in online lesson plans, where students can participate in the scientific method.
Our goal with "Performance Tasks" is to help the students wee the relevance and cross curricular nature and applications in the science and math areas. The performance task also creates a project based environment to the classroom where the students are collaborating and presenting as a team.
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