Science Teacher Case – Kathy
Kathy’s STEM integration unit was set in the context
of package engineering (as described in Nate’s Case), and
the length of the unit was 7 days. The one classroom
observation was conducted in her first lesson. It was a 90-
minute class. There were 18 students in the class. In the
first 20 minutes, she gave a brief introduction about
packaging engineering, described what students needed to
do for the day’s class, and divided students into groups.
Then, she used another 10 minutes to explain the handouts,
which were questions that students needed to complete for
the class and a rubric for the scoring. After that, she moved
her class to a computer lab. In the computer lab, she spent
20 minutes providing some basic information about how
students can use computers, such as how to do their
research and how to save their documents. In the rest of her
class, she let students work on their questions, and she
walked around to help students who needed assistance