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Browse the links below to find resources relating to Engineering in your classroom
1. Even Media Specialists are joining the "Maker Movement!" This article explains the logistics and importance of providing maker spaces for 21st Century Learners.
2. Alice: Duke University shares tips, helps, examples, and lesson plans from several years of workshops to help you get started with programming using Alice, a free click-and-drag program from Carnegie-Mellon.
3. The Concord Consortium:
Cultivating curiosity to bring out the inner scientist in everyone. We're a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating innovative educational technology for STEM learning. Our pioneering work brings technology's promise into reality for education worldwide.
Scroll down to explore a multitude of STEM resources. Most lessons lend themselves to differentiation either within the program or via leveling of questions / expectations. Be sure to preview programs on student devices at school to ensure any tech issues are worked out in advance. I have a volunteer student "guinea pig" to try programs out for me ahead of time. You may need to get help from IT department (permissions and settings, usually) for some applications so they work within your system.
4. Glenn Engineering Design challenges
https://www.nasa.gov/glenn-engineering-design-challenges
NASA has ready to go lesson plans for all areas of S.T.E.M. The Glenn engineering designs faces students with challenges that engineers face. There are lessons for all grade levels and they are aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
5. Teach Engineering
https://www.teachengineering.org/
This source has many Engineering activities k-12 that connect to the curriculum. Each lesson and activity provides background information for the teacher which you can use for your instructional style.
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