Engaging Elementary School Students in Science, Technology and Engineering to Solve Real Life Problems

Item

Title

Engaging Elementary School Students in Science, Technology and Engineering to Solve Real Life Problems

Description

David F. Putnam Science Center, Room 175

This workshop will explain and demonstrate an engineering design process that engages elementary school students in critical thinking and problem solving strategies. Creativity and problem solving skills are central to engineering. Participants will learn how elementary school students are taught to work collaboratively using an engineering process to solve authentic problems for different clients. Participants will learn how one group of students designed their own warning device to guide a ship into harbor using their knowledge of light reflection. Another group of students trace energy back to the sun using the contents of owl pellets to make a claim supported by evidence. In this workshop participants will be invited to work with others to solve a problem for a client using an engineering process given by the presenters.

Deborah Black

Contributor

Keene State College

Creator

Emily A. Medeiros

Adriana F. Alfiero

Date

2016-04-09

Identifier

https://commons.keene.edu/s/KSCArchive/item/21082

Language

en_US

Subject

Education

Type

Presentation

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Item sets

AEC 2016 School of Professional and Graduate Studies

Site pages

School of Professional and Graduate Studies