Curriculum Planning & Writing for Kid’s STEM Program
Preferred learners
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
Categories
Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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This project is ideal for university students in pre-service teaching programs who intend to work as teachers in K-12. This project will allow you to gain experience developing curriculum, particularly in the STEM field, with a concentration in the following areas:
- Coding, computer-aided design, robotics, game development, rocket science, etc.
- Engineering Design Process aka Design Thinking
- Social Emotional Learning
- Project-Based Learning
Students should be prepared to:
Plan and write lessons and record videos in our lesson plan format for age 5-14 hands-on STEM projects in tech-arts like Scratch Coding, LEGO & Vex robotics, Ozobot, Tinkercad, Minecraft, Roblox rockets and plane building, game design, and other themes.
Lessons will be aligned with Common Core State Math and English Standards and Next Generation Science Standards, and will feature the Engineering Design process and interactive group work. Video tutorials must be recorded for each lesson.
Each lesson includes a brief lesson plan, a Google Slide deck, and a tutorial video. Lessons will be drafted and finalized on a tight deadline. Responsibilities will include editing and improving existing curriculum. Work can be done remotely with regularly scheduled check in meetings in Zoom.
See here for examples of finished content: https://maker-state.org/steam-club/
Required Experience/Skills:
- Must possess strong English writing and communication skills
- Passion for creating engaging and mastery-based STEM project lessons
- Excellent research, organizational, communication and writing skills
- Ability to respond positively and efficiently to criticism and creative direction
- Experience as an educator in some capacity
- Experience and confidence in recording videos a plus
If you don’t have experience in at least two of the following, this internship is probably not suited for you:
- Scratch Coding
- Tinkercad & 3D printing
- LEGO & Vex robotics
- Ozobot robotics
- Minecraft
- Roblox
- microcontrollers like Arduino and Raspberry Pi
- rockets and plane building
- board/card game design
- other STEAM themes. Lessons will be aligned with Common Core State Math and English Standards and Next Generation Science Standards, and will feature the Engineering Design process
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
This project is ideal for university students in pre-service teaching programs who intend to work as teachers in K-12. This project will allow you to gain experience developing curriculum, particularly in the STEM field, with a concentration in the following areas:
- Coding, computer-aided design, robotics, game development, rocket science, etc.
- Engineering Design Process aka Design Thinking
- Social Emotional Learning
- Project-Based Learning
Students should be prepared to:
Plan and write lessons and record videos in our lesson plan format for age 5-14 hands-on STEM projects in tech-arts like Scratch Coding, LEGO & Vex robotics, Ozobot, Tinkercad, Minecraft, Roblox rockets and plane building, game design, and other themes.
Lessons will be aligned with Common Core State Math and English Standards and Next Generation Science Standards, and will feature the Engineering Design process and interactive group work. Video tutorials must be recorded for each lesson.
Each lesson includes a brief lesson plan, a Google Slide deck, and a tutorial video. Lessons will be drafted and finalized on a tight deadline. Responsibilities will include editing and improving existing curriculum. Work can be done remotely with regularly scheduled check in meetings in Zoom.
See here for examples of finished content: https://maker-state.org/steam-club/
Required Experience/Skills:
- Must possess strong English writing and communication skills
- Passion for creating engaging and mastery-based STEM project lessons
- Excellent research, organizational, communication and writing skills
- Ability to respond positively and efficiently to criticism and creative direction
- Experience as an educator in some capacity
- Experience and confidence in recording videos a plus
If you don’t have experience in at least two of the following, this internship is probably not suited for you:
- Scratch Coding
- Tinkercad & 3D printing
- LEGO & Vex robotics
- Ozobot robotics
- Minecraft
- Roblox
- microcontrollers like Arduino and Raspberry Pi
- rockets and plane building
- board/card game design
- other STEAM themes. Lessons will be aligned with Common Core State Math and English Standards and Next Generation Science Standards, and will feature the Engineering Design process
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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No deliverables exist for this project.
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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Our Curriculum Director will work with you closely to formulate lesson plan objectives.
Our Program Manager will work with you closely to project manage and schedule production.
Our Operations Manager will work with you closely to ensure productive communication between your team and ours.
About the company
- https://maker-state.com/
- 2 - 10 employees
- Education
MakerState & Student Union: Ensuring equitable access to hands-on STEAM/coding learning
MakerState and its non-profit, Student Union, inspire kids ages 4-18 with new science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) passions and skills through hands-on, in-school, after-school, and summer camp courses in coding and video game design, robot engineering, wearable electronic fashions, 3D design and printing, rocket science, moviemaking, and more. Students earn daily Challenge project badges in STEAM skills as well as Literacy, Math, Social Emotional and Executive Functioning skills as they build and learn. We operate more than 70 school-based makerspaces in NYC public schools and build ongoing capacity by training teachers through programs like the NSF Maker Partnership (Award #1742320) and NYC DOE’s “CS4all” (NYC DOE Vendor #0463406362), helping train over 5,000 New York City teachers how to include coding in their elementary and middle school project-based learning.