STEM-Ready ENSI lessons
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It may be helpful for you to know that several of the ENSI lessons already contain elements appropriate for STEM teaching (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math).  They deal with scientific creativity, functional design, applications of math, and the potential for competitive engineering.  Others use molecular data obtained from online data banks; one of these is actually a tutorial so students can find and download desired online data, and use online data processing tools.

ENSI NOS lessons that illustrate scientific creativity (mostly for hypothesizing reasonable, testable explanations, and designing tests of those hypotheses):
Flat Earth
Magic Hooey Stick
Perception Not Always Reality (T-illusion, other illusions)
The Great Volume Exchanger
Mystery Boxes
Sketch a Scientist (or sketch an engineer, or sketch a mathematician)
Checks Lab (proposing plausible scenarios based on evidence)

ENSI lessons that to illustrate scientific creativity in natural selection:
Blocks & Screws (creative solutions: re-purposing previous structures/processes)
Origami Birds (competitive engineering and natural selection)

ENSI lessons that use and apply math in science:
(NOS) Oat Seed Lab (statistical analysis, growth measurements, graphing)
(NOS) Perception is not always reality (rotational degrees, measurement, % error)
Patterns in Time (scale)
Lengthy Relationships (measuring stride, etc., finding body size)
Footsteps in Time (measure foot length, graphic extrapolation for body size)
Laetoli Trackway Puzzle (observations/inferences, measurements)
Virtual Age-Dating (online tutorial: calculating isochron ratios for geological ages)
Varve Dating (counting varves per cm, extrapolating to many meters)
Origami Birds (measure, data collection, presentation and analysis; engineering?)

ENSI lessons using molecular sequences obtained from online data banks & tools:
Tutorial: Investigating Evolutionary Questions Using Online Molecular Databases
Molecular Sequences & Primate Evolution
Molecular Biology and Phylogeny
Chromosome Fusion
Whale Ankles and DNA
Pseudogene Suite (part A or part B)

For desired lessons, go to ENSI home page and select the NOS (Nature of Science) index, or Evolution index.