These days, I cannot imagine a subject more important than sharing books that celebrate nature and its worth—also relaying the importance of keeping our shared “home” healthy.Such literature will encourage environmental stewardship, create a generation that recognizes and understands the value, yet fragility, of Earth’s resources, and propagate a general consensus as to the manner in which humanity must preserve, conserve, and protect such resources that ensures the well-being of all life forms.

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This paper will consider the complex challenges to current elementary undergraduate teacher education through the lens of recent (and intrusive) teacher education mandates at the higher education level and discuss the missing opportunities for faculty inclined towards critical pedagogy, curriculum studies, and foundations.

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Robertson et al detail a 5E learning cycle integrating science and mathematics challenges and engages second-grade students in designing sail cars to solve an engineering problem. Students create and use line plots to organize their data to evaluate the strengths and weakness of their design solutions. Three strategies were used to plan for successful integration in a 5E learning cycle. Integrating the STEM fields can increase student interest and learning, and our experiences with this integrated project support this finding.

We are a collaborative group of K-5 teachers, pre-service teachers, and higher education faculty. In our session we will share our work to design integrated STEM learning units aligned to Tennessee's elementary math and science standards. We will discuss strategies for planning integrated STEM learning as well as use a station format to model interactive, hands-on learning activities. Special emphasis will be placed on math and science standards that may be challenging for teachers.

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