Entrepreneurship is defined in different fields with definitions ranging from a specific perspective such as starting a business to a broader perspective such as a process of establishing new social, economic, environmental, institutional, cultural and/or scientific environments. There has been some movement toward entrepreneurship in STEM education through hackathons and makerspaces, but they tend to be limited to informal settings. In higher education, there seems to be a border line between business schools and education departments. This book aims to remove the borders between the Business Schools and the Department of Education and help Business Schools to develop their educational practices further and help Education Departments to develop their knowledge of entrepreneurship from its formal discipline. The purpose of this book is to bring together experts from STEM education and the formal discipline of entrepreneurship to explore the role of STEM in everyday life through an entrepreneurial lens and show how this integration can broaden STEM education practices.

What if you could challenge your 10th graders to develop a product or process that helps people embrace diet and exercise and has a positive impact on society? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Healthy Living outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. Like the other volumes in the series, this book is designed to meet the growing need to infuse real-world learning into K–12 classrooms. This interdisciplinary, three-lesson module uses project- and problem-based learning to help students build their knowledge about health from the varied perspectives of a cell biologist, nutrition scientist, biochemist, physiologist, public health practitioner, and consumer. To support this goal, students will do the following: Explain how diet and exercise affect an individual’s health at a cellular level. Explain the extent to which certain foods (plant, animal, or industry-produced) are beneficial for health. Critically evaluate media messages and scientific research about healthy lifestyles. Analyze the effects of individuals’ health choices on the community. Interview community stakeholders about factors that harm or enhance health. Use an engineering design process to create a prototype that individuals can use to manage their nutrition or exercise regimen. Create a video documentary demonstrating their understanding of a healthy lifestyle. Healthy Living can be used as a whole unit or in part to meet the needs of districts, schools, and teachers who are charting a course toward an integrated STEM approach.

What if you could challenge your 11th graders to figure out the best response to a partial meltdown at a nuclear reactor in fictional Gammatown, USA? Radioactivity helps high school students understand the debate over the safety and efficiency of using nuclear power to meet the country’s energy demands. Teams of students will apply what they learn about the science and history of nuclear energy to convey the views of particular stakeholder groups. They will explore how radioactive decay, nuclear fission, and nuclear fusion work. They will model nuclear fission, create computer-generated simulations, and perform mathematical computations. Mathematics skills will help them calculate the energy yield of an individual nuclear event (decay, fission, and fusion) and use exponential functions to represent chain reactions. Finally, they’ll make a presentation and adopt the roles of stakeholders grappling with the aftermath of the accident.

What if you could challenge your sixth graders to create packaging that's engineered to both protect a product and make it a hot seller? Packaging Design is based on the concept that success in the 21st-century workplace requires blending content and communication skills. Throughout the module, students will apply mathematics, English language arts, science, and social studies to the complex fields of design and marketing. Students will develop nested packages that require learning about geometric properties of three-dimensional shapes and engineering design. They'll also build persuasive writing and speaking skills with social media campaigns and PowerPoint presentations.