Conclusion
Teachers face enormous challenges to support students to begin a career or a college
degree program, particularly in the STEM fields of science, technology, engineering
and math. Teachers can successfully implement STEM education when they are
supported with programs that are based on the best practices for program design.
Project-based learning meets this need, and provides the roadmap for teachers to
adopt a successful approach. Imagine Mars is an example of project-based learning
that integrates STEM. This project exemplifies the benefits of project-based learning
to enable students to transfer their knowledge and skills to real-world problems, to
be motivated to learn, and to improve their math and science scores.