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Engineering Encounters: Optimizing Your K–5 Engineering Design Challenge

Science and Children—January 2017

This column presents ideas and techniques to enhance your science teaching. This month's issue discusses the optimizations that will serve to inform readers of seven recommendations for optimizing an engineering lesson.

Engineering Lesson Plans Pedagogy Professional Learning old Early Childhood Elementary

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