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How Do Engineers Solve Problems?
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The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how engineers use an engineering design process to solve problems. The probe includes some common misconceptions about engineering design, and is…
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Engineering in early childhood continues
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Engineering was celebrated last week but it continues to happen spontaneously, and with teachers’ support, in early childhood settings. Engineering happens when young children try to solve a problem by designing and…
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Problem solving and engineering in play
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Unless teachers and parents resist the urge to help as soon as we first see that a child has a problem, we might miss seeing how the child can solve it, possibly developing new skills in the process. (Of course, we use…
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Early education in engineering and design
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I love to try to understand the thinking process children are going through as they work to solve a problem involving objects in space—putting a puzzle together, making a system to carry toys, figuring out which arm to…
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Preservice elementary teachers need to know how to integrate the engineering design process into their science teaching. In this article, the authors describe how they used the LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Kit as part of a NGSS-…
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Engineering Design Projects That Support Science Learning
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Back in 1986, David Vernier wrote a book titled “How to Build a Better Mousetrap: And 13 other science projects using the Apple II.” The premise of the book was to use software, hardware, and materials to construct what…
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