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Table 2 Professional development overview and data collection timeline

From: Exploring teacher design team endeavors while creating an elementary-focused STEM-integrated curriculum

Days

Activities

Data collected

1–2

-Project introduction

-Engineering education framework introduced via make it better activities (engineering design focus)

-Integration curriculum assessment discussed

-Individual participant reflections

-Field notes

-Audio and video of PD

Days

 

Data collected

3–5

-Science content groups split

-Simple machines activity (bikes)

-Force and motion activity (hover crafts)

-Formation of teacher design teams

-Introduction to understanding by design

-Individual participant Reflections

-Field notes

-Audio and video of PD

Days

Activities

Data collected

6–12

-“Open” curriculum development

-Curriculum idea team share outs

-Integration curriculum assessment check of curriculum

-Team curriculum design conversationsa

-Participant interviewsa

-Individual participant reflections

-Field notes

-Curriculum development artifacts

  1. aDenotes a primary data source