Hands-On Steam Learning in the Age of Limited Time

• In Event: AERA Graduate Student Research-in-Progress Session 3
  In Roundtable Session: Understanding Learning and Instruction Across Sectors: Design, Multimodal Literacies, Effectiveness Narratives, and SEL Competencies (Table 2)

Abstract

This project engages three communities of learners within a title I elementary school near Baltimore. As such, the researchers aim to use a STEAM-based intervention to build social-emotional learning and engineering education simultaneously. This paper is a subproject that explores the connection between the STEAM-based intervention and ownership. Given that teachers' schedules are so full, using an already-established and well-accepted framework (CASEL) to address multiple content areas and cross-disciplinary skills (like SEL competencies) is both valuable and fruitful.

Author

• Kara Seidel, University of Maryland - Baltimore County