Ultimate Stem Top 5
Student Directed:
Activities where students are responsible for collaborating to accomplish a goal. Students have choice in how to obtain the goal and allocating responsibilities.
Targeting the Individual Student:
Lessons recognize that students have different ways of learning concepts and provides multiple modalities and cognitive levels to meet students’ needs.
Experience Linked to Concepts:
Lessons that provide authentic experiences that allow students to make personal connections to the ideas and concepts being studied, moving from knowledge to understanding.
Active Engagement:
Lessons provide tangible experiences, that require students to actively participate in their own learning. These experiences bridge the gap between knowledge and understanding.
Broad Utility:
Activities that are easily extendable, adaptable, and accessible across different disciplines and grade levels providing entry points for all students regardless of ability or experience.
Activities where students are responsible for collaborating to accomplish a goal. Students have choice in how to obtain the goal and allocating responsibilities.
Targeting the Individual Student:
Lessons recognize that students have different ways of learning concepts and provides multiple modalities and cognitive levels to meet students’ needs.
Experience Linked to Concepts:
Lessons that provide authentic experiences that allow students to make personal connections to the ideas and concepts being studied, moving from knowledge to understanding.
Active Engagement:
Lessons provide tangible experiences, that require students to actively participate in their own learning. These experiences bridge the gap between knowledge and understanding.
Broad Utility:
Activities that are easily extendable, adaptable, and accessible across different disciplines and grade levels providing entry points for all students regardless of ability or experience.
