Project based curriculum allows for deep exploration of a problem. Each project is designed to allow different student groups to develop several and distinct solutions to the same problem. The problem presents the student with an opportunity to plan, organize and conduct research. Enabling activities can provide students with needed skills and knowledge “just in time”. Students utilize their research in the design, prototyping, testing, evaluation, and redesign of a solution. Problems are layered to allow students to research and develop solutions to problems while building knowledge and skills sequentially.

Once an acceptable design solution is reached students create final documentation. This documentation includes sketches, drawings, notes, research reports, data analysis and anything else utilized in the creation of the final design. Students craft explanatory or argumentative writing to explain the merits of their solutions. The writing is glue for the integration of the learning. Having to explain the solution takes the learning to higher levels.

  
Tom White & Associates LLC was founded in 2010 to write STEM programs and technical educational materials and projects for a wide variety of schools, industries and governments. His work includes automation, civil engineering, computer numeric control, computer science, control systems, data acquisition and analysis, electronics, Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), game design, GIS, instrumentation, Programmable Logic Control (PLCs), product design, rapid prototyping, robotics, the science of golf (Chevron), Variable Frequency Drives, welding and several freshmen engineering curricula. His work is utilized worldwide and been translated into many languages. 

We can assist districts, states and governments in the creation and execution of contextual problem based STEM curriculum. High quality education calls for great curriculum, high quality teacher training and effective support.  Let us help you with your technical education improvement plans.