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Summer of Innovation & Invention
Elementary kids are all naturally creative and curious. Keep the wheels turning with these fun summertime reads on inventors and innovation. Check out our list of favorites below for home and classroom.
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A note about your classroom library & science class: While all kids are naturally creative and curious, not everyone wants to be a scientist or engineer. Some students identify as arts-related or socially-related, not STEM-related. It doesn't mean they aren't interested in science, though.
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Tech companies hire many people from non-STEM backgrounds to build the diverse teams needed grow strong companies. These include writers, artists, historians, communicators, analysts, lawyers, and specialists in law and human resources, to name some. The common thread among them all? A curiosity and interest in science.
The books on this list are a great way to engage all your students in science class and fuel their wonderful, big ideas! These stories will help them connect to science and the world around them by showing them the power of ideas and our own interests and talents."
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Articles, Books & Other Useful Tools
The following section contains links to books, articles and resources to support you in your teaching.
PedagogyWhat is Visible Learning?Visible learning is a pedagogical approach that focuses on giving students the tools and opportunities to illustrate their thinking, what they know, and what they continue to struggle with. Learn more.
What is Student-Directed Teaching?Student-directed teaching aims to give the student greater control, ownership, and accountability over his or her own education. The following books and articles are good references to aid in established student-directed teaching in your classroom.
ACSD article on student-directed teaching. A post on implementing student-directed teaching through student choice. Why Focus on Cross-Curricular Integration?"There aren't enough hours in the day," is an all too familiar refrain. We believe the deliberate and artificial siloing of elementary lessons and content is a major contributor to the problem.
This recent article makes a strong case for cross-curricular teaching. |
Classroom ToolsBelow are listed a variety of classroom resources and tools that have been shared with us by teachers in the CreositySpace community.
Although we did not author the documents directly, we find them to be well aligned with the CreositySpace curriculum and teaching philosophy. 
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Science Standards
CreositySpace curriculum was developed to fully support the K-5 Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and the new K-5 New York State Science Learning Standards (NYSSLS). Forty-four states have either adopted the NGSS standards or have developed their own standards based on the NRC Framework for K-12 Science Education. Click here for a map of K-12 Science Standards Adoption.
NGSS StatesAdopted by 20 states*
*Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington.Arkansas, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington. |
NYSSLSNew York State Science Learning Standards
*Note: CreositySpace curriculum does NOT support pre-K NYSSLS standards. |
Other States
Independent standards based on NRC K-12 Framework.
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Metrics
“The more people you have in STEM, the more innovations you'll get. The problem begins for children of all backgrounds in grade school, where they are usually asked to memorize facts out of a book instead of satisfying their natural curiosity through experiments and exploring.”
– Mae Jemison, as quoted in the Huffington Post. Jemison is the first black woman astronaut and holds both a medical degree and a bachelor degree in chemical engineering.
CreositySpace curriculum is developed in collaboration with teachers & students from across the US.
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Initial evaluation of program efficacy was performed via informal surveys that probed how much students felt they had learned, what they knew about science, and what they wanted to be when they grew up.
Across all grades and both genders students felt they learned more about a given topic after participating in the CreositySpace program.
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Work continues with a number of universities and federal agencies to align our impact assessment with methods that are accepted in the field. Where possible, we intend to track cohorts of students through elementary school, and into middle school and beyond, to demonstrate that connecting kids to STEM through the values and qualities of entrepreneurs forms lasting and effective impressions.