Overview & Expectations

Class Description -- General Overview

Design Engineering is an exploratory class for learning about pre-engineering skills; often the activities are referred to as STEM or STEAM activities. We follow the Design Engineering Process for our projects.

Students will design and build small prototypes of design challenges to try out their ideas and demonstrate their abilities. Problem solving activities and fun challenges are also integrated into the Design Engineering program with a focus on teamwork to find solutions.

In addition coding activities will be included! Students will have opportunities to pick from various coding activities in “Hour of CODE”. We will also learn how to use codes to program robots.

The Google Suite will be our primary mode of delivering instructions for activities: documents, drawings, slide show presentations, forms, jam board etc. Also included will be links using Brain Pop, Flip Grid, Screencastify, Edpuzzles, Quizziz, Hour of Code and more!

Students will use their Chrome Books daily to access instructions, information, and learning activities. Chrome books will also be used to document work and for assessment purposes.

Class Expectations

Students will need to be prepared for class each day with pencil, chrome books fully charged, ear buds and basic supplies (as needed).

Students will be expected to log in to Google Classroom for the daily assignments, instructions, and announcements.

Make-up Info

Wednesdays during recess Students absent from class for other reasons are welcome to come in for instruction and/to make up missing assignments.