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Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips
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Genetic Engineering (Teacher Edition)
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This chapter focuses on genetically engineered foods. Bt corn has bacterial genes that encode a protein toxic to many insects. Therefore the corn plant makes its own pesticide. This chapter explores the DNA basis for…
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Genetic Engineering (Student Edition)
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Genetically engineered crops cross boundaries that traditional crops do not and pose new and challenging regulatory issues. In the United States, a number of government agencies regulate food, plants, pesticides, and…
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Scientists and Engineers Are PROBLEM SOLVERS
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In this lesson, students learn that scientists and engineers are problem solvers. They read about Margaret Hamilton in the book Margaret and the Moon: How Margaret Hamilton Saved the First Lunar Landing, by Dean Robbins…
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Inviting Engineering Into the Science Lab
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This chapter presents examples of two lessons adapted from a second-grade program to incorporate the science and engineering practices into lab activities through the use of guided inquiry, rather than the structured-…
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Focusing on the Engineering Design Process
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Chapters 4–7 contain sections written by individual secondary math and science teachers (grades 6-12) who focus on different aspects of implementing design challenge units. In this chapter, the three teachers detail the…
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Career of the Month: Industrial Engineer
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Industrial engineers apply math and engineering principles to make systems—comprised of humans, machines, information, materials and/or energy—more efficient and effective. They can work in a wide variety of industries…
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Metallurgical Engineer Wendi Cooksey
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An interview with metallurgical engineer Wendi Cooksey
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Metallurgical Engineer Wendi Cooksey
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An interview with metallurgical engineer Wendi Cooksey
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Teaching Nature of Engineering with Picture Books
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Introducing Engineering as an Altruistic STEM Career
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Critical Consciousness in Engineering for Sustainable Communities
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Engineering Your Own Liquid Soap
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