This compendium is a collection of STEM-related articles from the journal Science and Children. It provides a variety of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics content and classroom activities for PreK-5 science teachers. -- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1: Grades prek-5 -- How to develop an engineering design task / Chelsey Dankenbring, Brenda M. Capobianco and David Eichinger -- Minding design missteps / David Crismond, Laura Gellert, Ryan Cain, and Shequana Wright -- Teaching through trade books / Christine Anne Royce -- More teaching through trade books / Emily Morgan, Karen Ansberry, and Susan Craig -- Part 2: Grades prek-2 -- Gimme an E! / Cynthia Hoisington and Jeff Winokur -- The EDP-5E / Pamela Lottero-Perdue, Sonja Bolotin, Ruth Benyameen, Erin Brock, and Ellen Metzger -- Can a student really do what engineers do? / Sherri Brown, Channa Newman, Kelley Dearing-Smith, and Stephanie Smith -- Catch me if you can! / Kimberly Lott, Mark Wallin, Deborah Roghaar, and Tyson Price -- Inviting engineering into the science lab / Seth Marie Westfall -- Integrating design / Peggy Ashbrook and Sue Nelhor -- Elephant trunks and dolphin tails / Lukas Hefty -- Engineering adaptations / Anne Gatling and Meredith Houle Vaughn -- Sailing into the digital era / Janet Bellavance and Amy Truchon -- Inventing mystery machines / Shelly Counsell, Felicia Peat, Rachel Vaughan, and Tiffany Johnson -- Am I really teaching engineering to elementary students? / Heahter McCullar -- The STEM of inquiry / Peggy Ashbrook -- Printing the playground / Stephanie Wendt and Jeremy Wendt -- A house for Chase the dog / Meghan E. Marrero, Amanda M. Gunning, and Christina Buonamano -- Measuring success / Tori Zissman -- Part 3: Grades 3-5 -- Think it, design it, build it, test it, refine it / Barbara Ehlers and Jeannie Coughlin -- Community-based engineering / Tejaswini Dalvi and Kristen Wendell -- Engineer it, learn it / Cathy P. Lachapelle, Kristin Sargianis, and Christina M. Cunningham -- Designing a sound-reducing wall / Kendra Erk, John Lumkes, Jill Shambach, Larry Braile, Anne Brickler, Anna Matthys -- Blade structure and wind turbine function / Pamela Lottero-Perdue, M. Angela De Luigi, and Tracy Goetzinger -- You and your students as green engineers / Tess Hegedus and Heidi Carlone -- Smashing milk cartons / Debra Monson and Deborah Besser -- Creating a prosthetic hand / Kristin Leigh Cook, Sarah B. Bush, and Richard Cox -- Gliding into understanding / Patrick Brown -- A system of systems / Barney Peterson -- Blasting off with engineering / Emily A. Dare, Gregory T. Childs, E. Ashley Cannaday, and Gillian H. Roehrig -- SCAMPERing into engineering / Jenny Sue Flannagan and Margaret Sawyer -- Wacky weather / Amy Sabarre and Jacquline Gullino -- Straw rockets are out of this world / Joan Gillman -- Nature as inspiration / Kristina Tank, Tamara Moore, and Meg Strnat -- The tightrope challenge / Bill Burton -- Modeling water filtration / Melissa Parks.