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Projects and prototypes developed through the use of this curriculum will be showcased on the website as inspiration for other projects under development.  Top-rated projects will be recognized along with feedback highlighting the strongest elements.

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Pre-service teachers further develop pedagogical skills for maker-centered learning by implementing the Making Inspired by Nature curriculum with a new group of approximately 80 community childre n.

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In the second semester, pre-service teachers deepen their experience in making, design thinking, and biomimicry through course activities, initial project extension, and sharing their work in a showcase.

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Pre-service teachers will mentor small groups of children during our weekend and summer programs for approximately 80 community children as they engage in the Making Inspired by Nature curriculum.

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Faculty implement maker-centered learning activities from the Making Inspired by Nature curriculum to introduce pre-service teachers to innovative pedagogies such as systems thinking, inquiry, biomimicry, innovation, and sharing work in a showcase.

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Major Components of Implementation Model

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Major Components of Implementation Model

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Two semester sequence.

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Includes Thinking Routines (thinking visibly, sketching, prototyping)

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Includes Thinking Routines (thinking visibly, sketching, prototyping)

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MCL strategies such as looking closely.

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empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test

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Learning is collaborative, driven by curiosity, prototyping, interdisplinary, and shared

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Learning is collaborative, driven by curiosity, prototyping, interdisplinary, and shared

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Objective 4: Advance knowledge of how to train pre-service teachers to equitably implement biomimicry in maker-centered learning by designing and testing training models.

Outcome 4.1. Through an iterative design and development process with four test/revise time points over the course of the project, develop an understanding of effective models to (a) train pre-service teachers to implement biomimicry with elementary students in a maker-centered learning context and (b) support elementary students in a maker-centered learning.

Outcome 4.2. Advance knowledge of potential inroads for underrepresented and underserved children into deeper engagement in the maker community and STEM learning.

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Objective 3: Advance elementary students’ interest in STEM and sense of maker empowerment to apply STEM to solve real-world problems.

Outcome 3.1. Students increase awareness in connecting biomimicry and makerspaces to STEM-related careers and STEM content.

Outcome 3.2. Students show an increased sense of maker empowerment and develop competencies including curiosity, creativity, collaboration, communication, looking closely, intellectual openness, resilience, and courage to act.

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Learn from each other in a social context

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Learn from each other in a social context

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Builds Teacher Knowledge While Focusing on Student Learning and Growth

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Builds Teacher Knowledge While Focusing on Student Learning and Growth

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Potential Inroads for engaging UR/UC children in making community and STEM learning. 

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Potential Inroads for engaging UR/UC children in making community and STEM learning. 

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Knowledge of Pre-service Teacher Models that Work

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Knowledge of Pre-service Teacher Models that Work

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curiosity, creativity, collaboration, communication, looking closely, intellectual openness, resilience, and courage to act

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Inclination and capacity to drive positive change in the world

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Objective 2: Advance pre-service teachers’ capacity and desire to embed maker-centered Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) in their future classrooms by nurturing maker-centered competencies and empowerment.

Outcome 2.1. Pre-service teachers demonstrate increased awareness in connecting student learning to STEM-related careers with developmentally appropriate STEM experiences.

Outcome 2.2. Pre-service teachers show an increased sense of maker empowerment (i.e. inclination and capacity to drive positive change in the world) and develop their own competencies toward innovation including curiosity, creativity, collaboration, communication, looking closely, intellectual openness, resilience, and courage to act.

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Objective 1: Develop and test Making Inspired by Nature materials to engage pre-service teachers and elementary children in innovation and engineering design through the application of biomimicry and design thinking.

Outcome 1.1. Developed lesson plans that pre-service teachers use in field experiences to engage elementary school children in the application of biomimicry in maker-centered classrooms.

Outcome 1.2. Developed materials including a website with multimedia biomimicry case studies (we call this tool BioInspire), hands-on maker activities and design thinking resources.

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Goal B: Evaluate Models for Deepeing Preservice Teacher Pedagogical Knowlege

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Goal B: Evaluate Models for Deepeing Preservice Teacher Pedagogical Knowlege

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Evaluate models for deepening pre-service teachers’ pedagogical knowledge for supporting student learning in maker-centered classrooms.

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This collection of biomimicry case studies will showcase powerful examples of how the natural world functions.  Each case study will describe the living thing or system and explain its strategy and the science of how it works.  Animation and 2D graphics will be used to convey the design concepts. These case studies will be used within units and lessons to inspire the mimicry of these natural functions in students’ innovative design projects.

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Goal A: Build and Evaluate Resources for  Broadening Participation UR/US Elementary Children in Innovation

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Goal A: Build and Evaluate Resources for  Broadening Participation UR/US Elementary Children in Innovation

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Build and evaluate digital resources and hands-on activities for broadening the participation of underrepresented and underserved elementary children in innovation through the application of biomimicry and design thinking in a maker context

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Improve the effectiveness of preparing elementary pre-service teachers to engage children in making and design thinking through the lens of biomimicry.  View Proposal in Google Drive.

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Making Inspired by Nature, EAGER Maker Project

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Making Inspired by Nature, EAGER Maker Project