Material Properties
Matter is all around us. Many students intuitively know that wood is harder than dough. This lesson gives them the starting foundation for understanding how scientists look at materials and decide what category they fit into.
Guide on the Side
As it is used in teaching, the phrase “be a guide on the side, not the sage on the stage,” refers to the idea that the teacher functions as an informative facilitator, and allows students to actively interact with new information by working with one another.
MakerEd Integration For any Subject
This is an example lesson, plus supporting coaches’ documentation, for an integrated maker ed, PBL lesson. It should be seen as a “cooking” technique into which an educator may insert their own curricular ingredients and seasonings.
Prezi This: Making Digital Presentations
It is beneficial for students to learn how to create and use effective tools to communicate and convey information to inform, persuade or entertain even as early as 3rd Grade.
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Collaborative Design, Build & Deliver
The days of cookie cutter jobs and cookie cutter workers are rapidly ending. Automation and artificial intelligence will replace many jobs that exist today.
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Fostering 21st Century Skills - Engineering Design Process/ STEM Challenge
During my fellowship at Lockheed Martin, I learned about critical communication skills and the engineering and design process in the creation of satellites. The goal of this ETP is to introduce and practice the engineering design process through a hands on STEM challenge.
Managing Thermal Energy Via Surface Emissivity
The Goodson lab research focuses on analyzing and controlling thermal energy transfer in order to facilitate optimal functioning in electronic products.
Planning for An Effective IEP Team Meeting
The goal of this Education Transfer Plan is (ETP) is to instruct new special education teachers in how to plan for and lead a structured, student-centric Individual Education Plan (IEP) team meeting.
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The Beginning of the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) Age
We are currently living in the information age. From smartphones to the satellites that transmit their data, information technology is all around us. Students need to understand how our technology works and how they too could be the future engineers that design it.
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