Defined STEM: Great, organized addition to the classroom. Makes implementing projects easy.

My Take

I plan to do it again next year. I can't give a much better recommendation than that! As a teaching tool, I appreciate knowing what the reading level of the articles are so I can get things to my students who struggle, but they can still contribute. One thing I added was a jigsaw activity. I assigned each student in a group to read one of the articles provided. They then met with students from other groups who read the same article. After discussing the article the group came up with a list of important ideas from the reading. They took this back to their home group and shared what they learned from reading the article.