ABSTRACT
Sustainability transdisciplinary education model (STEM) tasks combine problem solving and project building, inquiry, and innovation. STEM task design needs to start at the end goals and then design backward from those goals. STEM tasks are challenging, transdisciplinary tasks that integrate STEM learning practices and subject matter content. A STEM task might, for example, prompt students to discover the principles of flight as they use measurement to design kites. When teachers design STEM tasks, they are doing more than designing isolated lessons. Designing STEM tasks resembles planning an integrated unit that will last at least a week, usually two or more. Designing a STEM task is an organic process that often involves flexibility, differentiation, and targeted support based on student needs and unpredictable, unforeseen demands. STEM-related roles might be research associate, engineering assistant, structural engineer, architect, civil engineer, front-end developer, and/or promotion and sales engineer.
