EDST 602 - STEM CONTENT METHODS

3 Credit Hour(s)
The course will include application of new ideas through networking and collaboration designed to help educators structure opportunities for students to utilize a Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics skill set through investigation and application of science knowledge, applied mathematics, and utilization of tools of technology in order to design solutions to real-world problems. This course fosters the view of the STEM skill set as being integrated and interdependent, and as an essential element in real-world collaboration. Educators will explore STEM resources, adapt existing activities to the STEM teaching philosophy, and create original STEM-based units. This course assesses advanced critical thinking skills through scholarly reading and written analysis of a more complex nature than is true for the undergraduate. Three hours of lecture of equivalent.