Tank, K. M., & Moore, T. J., & Gajdzik, E., & Sanger, M. T., & Rynearson, A. M., & Dorie, B. L., & Mann, E. (2016, June), Designing Paper Baskets: A PictureSTEM Curriculum Module (P12 Resource Exchange)  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana. 10.18260/p.26705

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  Tank, K. M., \& Moore, T. J., \& Gajdzik, E., \& Sanger, M. T., \& Rynearson, A. M., \& Dorie, B. L., \& Mann, E. (2016, June), \emph{Designing Paper Baskets: A PictureSTEM Curriculum Module (P12 Resource Exchange)}
  Paper presented at 2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana.
  10.18260/p.26705

Kristina Maruyama Tank, Tamara J. Moore, Elizabeth Gajdzik, M. Terri Sanger, Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Brianna L Dorie, and Emma Mann.  "Designing Paper Baskets: A PictureSTEM Curriculum Module (P12 Resource Exchange)".  2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2016.  https://strategy.asee.org/26705 Internet.  22 Jul, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_26705}
  Kristina Maruyama Tank, Tamara J. Moore, Elizabeth Gajdzik, M. Terri Sanger, Anastasia Marie Rynearson, Brianna L Dorie, and Emma Mann.
  "Designing Paper Baskets: A PictureSTEM Curriculum Module (P12 Resource Exchange)".
  \emph{2016 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2016.
  https://strategy.asee.org/26705 Internet.  22 Jul, 2024

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Description of the Project
The PictureSTEM Project is developing an instructional module at each grade level, K-5, which employs engineering/technology and literary contexts to integrate science and mathematics content instruction in meaningful and significant ways. These curricular units go through an extensive design research cycle to ensure a quality product. 

Description of the Designing Paper Baskets Unit
The specific module that will be presented is a 5-day unit geared towards the early elementary grades (K-2), which consists of five pairs of literacy and STEM integration lessons that work together to build the foundation for an engineering design challenge. Each of the lessons require approximately 30 minutes of class time and build upon each other. In the Designing Paper Baskets module, students explore patterns and investigate the strength and properties of paper before applying these concepts to design a paper basket. 

At the resource exchange we will bring a hands-on display, a copy of the curriculum, and a flyer with electronic access to each of the modules to distribute to participants. An overview of the specific module, Designing Paper Baskets, that will be presented at the resource exchange is provided below:

Lesson 1 – After being introduced to the engineering design challenge, students look at different things that can be done with rocks as they read the book If you Find a Rock. This lesson introduces students to collecting rocks and why rocks can be fun and interesting, while also getting students to think about how rocks can be organized by size, color or use. After setting the context of rock collecting, students dive deeper into the science concept of physical properties as they explore the properties of paper samples that will be used during the design of their baskets.

Lesson 2 – Students are introduced to water as they learn about some of the properties through the nonfiction science text, I Get Wet. Through this text, students build their phonemic awareness skills while also learning about water. After reading part of the nonfiction text, students investigate water’s effect on different types of papers by conducting a water drop test on regular and wax-coated paper. 

Lesson 3 – In this lesson, students continue to learn about the properties of water as they work to interactively create summary sentences about the nonfiction science text that they have been reading together. Students will then explore some of the ideas that they have about water and paper as they use rocks to test the strength of the different papers that will be available during the design challenge.  Students will sort papers based on their strength when wet and when dry.

Lesson 4 – Students are introduced to rhyming and patterns through a book called Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris. After reading, connections are made between the patterns in basket weaving and the patterns presented through the book. This helps students to identify patterns used in simple basket weaving, and understand why alternating patterns are important, before use their knowledge of patterns to complete weavings in pairs.  Students will also use the properties of paper to make decisions about which papers to use as they plan for their basket design.

Lesson 5 – In the final lesson, students read about construction engineering as they are practicing the blending of three phonemes words presented in the story. Students are given the chance to build and test their basket designs when wet and when dry, before a cycle of sharing, redesign and retesting.  Finally, students use what they learned during designing and testing to write letters to Max and Lola in which they make recommendations for their basket design.




AU  - Kristina Maruyama Tank
AU  - Tamara J. Moore
AU  - Elizabeth Gajdzik
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AU  - Anastasia Marie Rynearson
AU  - Brianna L Dorie
AU  - Emma Mann
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