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This book will arm you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom. Rather than prescribing a specific curriculum to follow, this book will help you engage your students with hands-on, open-ended engineering design problems that can be easily integrated into your existing classroom set up.
List of contents
1. An Introduction to Engineering in K-8 2. Engineering and Children's Powerful Designs 3. Children's Engineering: Knowledge, Skills, and Engagement 4. The Responsive Engineering Classroom 5. Engineering Activities: What Counts as Engineering? 6. Getting Engineering Started in Your Classroom 7. A First Step-A Beginning Classroom Activity 8. Getting Started with Engineering: Sample Introductory Activities 9. Writing and Drawing to Support Engineering Thinking 10. Facilitating Engineering Conversations 11. Inclusive and Connected Engineering Classrooms 12. Choosing Materials and Building 13. Assessment 14. Engineering Design Activity Sequences
Appendices 1. Classroom Resources 2. Lesson Plans 3. Supporting Content
About the author
Elissa Milto is the Director of Outreach at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, USA.
Chelsea Andrews is a research assistant professor at Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach, USA.
Merredith Portsmore serves as the Director of Tufts Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and as a research associate professor, USA.
Christopher Wright is an associate professor in the School of Education at Drexel University, USA.
Summary
This book will arm you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom. Rather than prescribing a specific curriculum to follow, this book will help you engage your students with hands-on, open-ended engineering design problems that can be easily integrated into your existing classroom set up.
