Focused-learning time: Eight hours of hands-on lessons, engaging discussions and short lectures. Teambuilding and breaks: Our day includes icebreakers, team building activities, energizers and breaks ...
2. Engineering design process: For early education, this is three steps: explore, create, improve. Students should be allowed to ask questions and create as many iterations as possible. While older ...
Have you ever thought about how and why something was designed? Who was considered a “stakeholder” for the design? And what biases are baked within the process of designing something? These are some ...
Even with the Next Generation Science Standard’s emphasis on engineering, there’s still a feeling that in preschool and kindergarten, teachers shouldn’t place as much emphasis on the E in STEM. But ...