Proposal
Name:
Hands-on STEM EducationActivities for Pre-service Teachers
FiscalYear:
2020
Audience:
Education, College of
Submitter:
Powers, Jillian
Budget Manager:
Laliberte, Rick
Project Manager:
Powers, Jillian
Proposal Approvers
Dept. Chair:
Peluso, Paul R.
Local IT:
Diaz, Steven C.
Dean:
Silverman, Stephen
Facilities:
N/A
OIT:
Bagdonas, Joseph A.
Proposal Funding
Year 1:
$ 5,346.00
Year 2:
$ 0.00
Year 3:
$ 0.00
Total:
$ 5,346.00
Proposal Funding versus Average
Questionnaire
Narrative
The Department of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education offers elementary and secondary teacher preparation programs that include instructional technology courses for pre-service teachers. The course EME 2040, Introduction to Technology for Educators, is the only technology courses required of secondary education majors and is one of two courses required for elementary education majors. It is critical to provide students in this course with hands-on experience with the types of technological tools they will be expected to integrate into their future classrooms. This includes how to integrate STEM education activities, however, the teaching materials to do this are expensive, and instructors cannot afford to purchase them to use in their classrooms. For the proposed project, we would like to purchase STEM education kits and materials so that our pre-service educations can apply theory to actual practice by taking part in hands-on STEM education activities. The items will be organized on a mobile cart so they make be easily moved from classroom to classroom. The course is taught by faculty and adjuncts who are eager to implement these tools into the classroom.
The requested items include:
Little Bits-STEAM Student Set
MakeyMakey Classic Kit
Lego Education We Do Core set
Little Bits Electronics Kit
Sphero Mini Activity Kit
Dot and Dash
3D Printer filaments-thread
Dremel 3D printer
STEM Makerspace Cart
Facilities
Facilities updates – NA
Hardware Requirements
1 Dremel 3D printer $ 600
Software Requirements
Some items will include software drivers to interface with PCs.
Other Costs
2 Little Bits-STEAM Student Set: $299.95 600
8 MakeyMakey Classic Kit $49.95 100
4 Lego Education We Do Core set $197.95 800
2 Little Bits Electronics Kit 760
2 Sphero Mini Activity Kit- $79.99 160
2 Dot and Dash-$149.99 300
20 3D Printer filaments-thread 800
1 STEM Makerspace Cart 1,226
Timeline
Multiple sections fo the course EME 2040 Introduction to Technology for Educators are offered every semester. We will start implementing the hand=on STEM activities in the Spring of 2020 and continue from thereafter.
Sustainability
The project should be sustainable for at least 7 years. As with any technology, parts break down and/or changes in innovation come to take their place.
Implementing Organization
FAU COE / Department of Teaching and Learning (project manager)
Proposal Budget
|
Fiscal Year 1 |
Fiscal Year 2 |
Fiscal Year 3 |
Total |
| Hardware One-Time |
$ 600.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 600.00 |
| Hardware Recurring |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Software One-time |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Software Recurring |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Personnel One-time |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Personnel Recurring |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Other One-time |
$ 4,746.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 4,746.00 |
| Other Recurring |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
| Totals |
$ 5,346.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 0.00 |
$ 5,346.00 |
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