This project is a combination of many different levels of learning for all the players involved.
Not only are the students learning a lot about marine science in a design science lab class, they are also learning:
1. to build their ideas from drawings
2. to interact with a professional scientist in many different ways,
3. to see that skype is an effective and normal tool for learning in the classroom
4. to see that teachers and scientists are collaborators in learning and teaching
5. to imagine their 3D prototypes of microscopic organisms can be used to teach the public about scientific concepts.
What hasn't been mentioned yet is that this project also connects four different types of people and/or organizations all at once. It is our hope that these projects that students create will be hanging from the ceiling of a small science center in New Hampshire.
This collaboration provides an example in how a Scientist-Teacher-Student team can successfully interact with an Informal Science Center in hopes to educate the public and local schools about projects that middle school students can be involved in and excel at.
This interdisciplinary demonstration is an exciting example of successful learning in STEAM education.
STEAM = Science, Technology, Education, Art/Design and Mathematics
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