Books

Build STEAM skills with quick and purposeful daily practice! Introduce students to year-level STEAM content while encouraging them to develop their creativity and problem-solving skills. This book includes twelve units, broken into manageable daily activities. Each unit includes a STEAM challenge where students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem.

School leaders and classroom teachers are looking for ways to integrate maker learning into their work in meaningful ways, but they simply don’t have the time, capacity or resources to review, synthesise or adapt existing models into their own school systems. The maker playbook offers a vision and the tools needed to streamline the process, including high-impact strategies you can put directly into action to foster an inclusive maker learning environment.

Our world hinges on storytelling, and the ways in which stories can be told are always evolving. Moviemaking in the classroom provides insight, inspiration and practical ideas to empower teachers in all content areas to implement moviemaking projects with their students.

Developing digital detectives offers easy-to-implement lessons for educators to support learners as they become digital detectives, looking for clues, questioning motives, uncovering patterns, developing theories and, ultimately, delivering a verdict.

Ethics in a digital world is designed to help students consider the systems and structures in which they spend so much of their time, guiding them in looking at the technology around them through a critical lens.

With this book, teachers get the guidance they need to help students engage in learning experiences that allow them to reflect on their level of knowledge and what they need to learn, while exploring topics that correspond with their interests. Readers will learn to guide students in creating tutorial videos, providing peer reviews, curating their own resources, participating in debates and more.

Uncovering student ideas about engineering and technology has the potential to help you take an important first step in teaching for understanding – and perhaps transform your teaching about STEM-related topics.

Personalized deeper learning articulates how all teachers can simultaneously teach assessed academic content and promote crucial deeper learning skills. Bellanca offers blueprints for teachers and students, clear tools with which teachers can become effective guides in the process of student-directed discovery, regardless of grade level or style.