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The lessons contained in this chapter highlight collaborating to improve teacher STEM preparation. This collaboration provided preservice teachers the...
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Am I Really Teaching Engineering to Elementary Students?
This chapter features lessons from an environmental engineering summer camp for first and second graders, with the goal of introducing students to eng...
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In this chapter, students investigate how to carry and transport a heavy object including designing and using a tool. With science, technology, engine...
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In this chapter, early childhood students design a piece of playground equipment using a 3-D printer. Kindergarten and first-grade students were charg...
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In this chapter, second-grade students investigate material properties. Students were introduced to the Next Generation Science Standards model of the...
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The true purpose of this activity is to introduce students to a five-step EDP (engineering design process). In this chapter, second graders design, bu...
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Think It, Design It, Build It, Test It, Refine It
In this chapter, a unit on water quality ends with a water filtration engineering design activity and was a win-win situation. Students were already v...
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A design task helps students identify and find solutions to a school-yard problem. A module was conducted in four 90-minute sessions. Session 1, Previ...
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This chapter shows how science and engineering practices can be integrated into the elementary classroom by providing snapshots of activities from a S...
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Designing a Sound-Reducing Wall
In this chapter, students explore engineering with a fun challenge. To help students better understand sound in a fun and engaging way, an engineering...
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Blade Structure and Wind Turbine Function
In this chapter, third and fifth graders co-investigate and co-design wind turbine blades and voltage output. The wind turbine lessons featured emerge...
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You and Your Students as Green Engineers
In this chapter, using creativity and everyday materials to design and improve a solar oven highlights one teacher’s journey with her fifth-grade st...
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In this chapter, third-grade students solve a real-world problem using the engineering design process, collaborative group work, and integrated STEM e...
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This chapter explores how one teacher employed 3-D printing technology with fourth-grade students in a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, ...
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In this chapter, a paper airplane investigation highlights scientific and engineering practices. The investigation relates to students’ personal ex...