CeMaST

Integrated Math, Science, and Technology (IMaST)

Module Components

Each module includes a complete student textbook and a teacher resource edition. Since each IMaST module follows the same framework, each module's title reflects a theme extended throughout the module's activities.

The Challenge

Every module begins with a challenge. It is an integrated activity that introduces the overall module objectives and key concepts followed by a series of mathematics, science, and technology activities set in a learning cycle.

The Learning Cycle

The learning cycle in each activity comprises of a four-phase instructional model having the following components: Exploring, Getting the Idea, Applying the Idea, and Expanding the Idea. The following table outlines the roles of the student and the teacher in each of these phases.

 
Teacher's Role
Student's Role
Exploring
  • Gathers materials
  • Keeps students on task
  • Provides safety and skills instructions
  • Asks questions
  • Promotes journal writing as needed
  • Interacts with materials
  • Designs and builds
  • Collects and records data
  • Makes predictions

Getting the Idea
  • Leads class discussion
  • Questions students
  • Corrects misconceptions
  • Supplies terms
  • Builds sets of class data
  • Compares data
  • Answers questions
  • Forms generalizations
  • Writes in journal

Applying the Idea
  • Supplies materials
  • Assures safe practice
  • Keeps students on task
  • Corrects lingering misconceptions
  • Applies concepts, principles, and laws
  • Designs and makes projects
  • Conducts experiments
  • Solves problems

Expanding the Idea
  • Makes sure resources are available
  • Asks questions to help students make connections with broader contexts
  • Expands concepts to more general or global situations through reading, and research, and journal writing

 

Making Connections

Each module has a component called Making Connections. In keeping with the philosophy of allowing students to use their personal experience to construct their own knowledge, these readings are placed at the end of the activity. The Making Connections readings help students to expand and link what they are learning to real-world situations. Even though the emphasis is on the interrelations between mathematics, science, and technology, it is often possible to relate to other disciplines, such as social studies and language arts.

Concepts in Context

Gaining some insight into the module's key concepts by exploring them for a number of weeks, the Concepts in Context section helps students connect what they are learning to a broader social and environmental context. This section provides a broad context for the module theme. Thus, while reading Concepts in Context, students may also explore relevant social issues as well as the impact that science and technology has on the earth.

Student Assessment

Activity assessments authentic to the learning experience and matched to the learning objectives are included at the end of each activity. Additionally, each module includes The End-of-Module Assessment and is an integrated assessment consisting of five parts.

 

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