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It has been accepted for inclusion in Current Issues in Middle Level Education by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@Georgia Southern. For more information, [please contact](please contact digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu)[ digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu](please contact digitalcommons@georgiasouthern.edu).  \nIntegrating Social Studies Education with Mathematics:  \nPre-service Teachers’ Use of the Pyramids of Giza to plan a STEM Lesson  \nRanda Elbih  \nElyssa Miller  \nGrace Sheldon  \nMackenzie Wilson  \nUniversity of Saint Joseph  \nAbstract  \nPre-service teachers (PSTs) often struggle to teach STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,  \nand Mathematics) content effectively due to lack of training on how to plan a STEM lesson in  \nmeaningful ways as well as which subjects to integrate. This dilemma often results in an  \navoidance of STEM methodology altogether. This paper describes a productive method for  \ntraining PSTs to successfully teach STEM lessons by using Social Studies content to integrate  \nwith Mathematics and Science and to provide context and connection to real-world applications.  \nAlong with providing a STEM lesson, the article demonstrates the critical role Social Studies can  \nplay as the “glue” for some integrated lesson plans.  \nKeywords: STEM, Social Studies, pre-service teachers, lesson plan  \nIntroduction  \nFor more than 30 years, educators have looked for ways to integrate different content areas in their lessons (Drake & Burns, 2004) . Integrated lessons offer students the opportunity to learn about a topic or theme in a way that connects ideas across disciplines. In particular,  \nstudents can benefit from lessons which integrate STEM topics in a way that illuminates how  \nMathematics is situated in authentic, real-world applications (Ryu, Mentzer, & Knobloch, 2019) .  \nMiddle school Social Studies curriculum can offer a meaningful opportunity to connect socio  \nhistorical real-life concepts with STEM. Unfortunately, integrated STEM lessons are far from  \ncommonplace in K-12 education. Because of this, pre-service teachers (PSTs) often have little  \nexperience with STEM learning and are therefore limited in imagining how these kinds of  \nlessons can be implemented in their future classrooms (Ryu et al., 2019) .  \nIntegrating Social Studies with STEM activities can help PSTs develop critical thinking,  \nactive citizenship, and problem-solving skills that allow them to address complex world  \nproblems (Manfra, 2013; Hartshorne, Waring, & Okraski, 2019). 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