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This site represents as much as possible, the process, work, and
enthusiasm of becoming a STEM school. Though we've tried to
include all important events and people. If we've missed
something, please let us know.
Lee Burneson Middle School in the
Westlake City School District serves students in grades seven and
eight. The ADM for the 2007-2008 school year shows 352 students
enrolled in grade seven and 320 students enrolled in grade eight.
Enrollment projections (DeJong and Healy) show no remarkable
increase through the end projection year of 2016-2017. The grant
proposal is intended to be inclusive of all students including
special education, regular education, and gifted populations.
The program will offer a rigorous and diverse curriculum that is
based on scientific inquiry, technological design, and engineering
approaches to problem solving; that will emphasize personalized
learning and teamwork skills; and that will expose students to
advanced scientific, mathematical, technical and engineering
concepts through innovative applications of technology within and
outside of the classroom.
The emphasis will be to transform the curriculum from isolated
subjects/content/concepts in math, science and technology to a
process where the key concepts of engineering; problem solving,
innovation, and design are integrated across the subject areas. In
addition, further use the arts, social studies and language arts
components of the curriculum will be utilized to provide students
with a broad perspective and implications of STEM. Not only do we
need to transform the teaching of the STEM subjects, but we also
must be aware of the impact of STEM in the arts, social studies, and
language. The projects and activities will need to incorporate
concepts from each of these areas to provide a diverse curriculum.
The arts provide avenues for drawings and designs of materials,
development of marketing tools, like advertising. Language is one of
the most important tools in engineering. It is used to communicate
through writing, speech, persuasion, directions, etc. Social studies
provides a view of the history, government, development of society
and the impact of new technology on society. STEM must reach out to
these areas for a comprehensive approach to the program.
This site was designed and created
by Kurt Thonnings, Technology Resource Teacher for both Parkside
Intermediate School and Lee Burneson Middle School. For any
inquires about this site, please feel free to contact him at
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