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Journal Article
Equity Strategies: Community Hosts and Design Thinking in a Middle School Summer Camp
By Adam Talamantes
Journal Article
Extending Engineering Learning Beyond Field Trips
By Alexandria Muller, Tarah Connolly, Ron Skinner, and Danielle Harlow
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ understanding of the word technology. The probe is designed to find out if students are aware that they live in a world composed almost entirely of technological objects, systems, and proc...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about what is and what is not technology. The probe is designed to find out if students have a broad understanding of technology as defined in the Framework (NRC 2012).. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
What’s the Purpose of Technology?
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about the purpose of technology. The probe is designed to find out if students recognize that technologies are developed to meet human needs and preserve the environment. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how technologies change. The probe is designed to see if students are aware of the way nearly all technologies change over time. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about block diagrams. The probe is designed to examine how students interpret a block diagram, and to determine whether they recognize that technologies include processes as well as ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine if students are able to envision how a system is made up of parts and can do something that the parts alone cannot do....
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about technological systems. The probe is designed to determine the extent to which students recognize that all systems are nested within and interconnected with larger systems. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel
Lesson Plan
The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about engineers. The probe is designed to reveal how students think about who is an engineer and the kind of work engineers do. ...
By Page Keeley, Cary Snider, and Mihir Ravel