Students Engineering Labs
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The document discusses integrating engineering labs into lessons to improve student problem solving skills and foster an experimental mindset. It provides an overview of engineering versus traditional labs and modeling, outlines the design process for a sample 2D engineering lab, and shares resources for finding additional engineering lessons including the Bungee Barbie lab and simulations from PHET.
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- 2. Purpose of Engineering Labs • Have students create a lab with an objective in mind. • Improve student problem solving skills • Change students to a more experimental/engineering mindset
- 3. Purpose of this session • To show how I integrate engineering labs into my lesson – Why students need this • To discuss ways you can turn a lab into an Engineering lab • To give resources for people who want to create engineering labs
- 5. Engineering vs. Modeling • Similarities – Modeling often is Engineering • Differences – Engineering often comes after content knowledge whereas Modeling creates content knowledge
- 6. Taken from the NC State Engineering Place Website Design process adapted from the Museum of Science Boston “Engineering is Elementary” program
- 7. 2D Engineering Lab • Ask – What is the problem? – What are the constraints?
- 8. 2D Engineering Lab • Imagine: Brainstorm ideas and choose the one you are going to try.
- 9. 2D Engineering Lab • Plan: Create a procedure that you are going to follow to test out your ideas.
- 10. 2D Engineering Lab • Create: Follow the plan • Improve: What did/didn’t work • Redo
- 12. Resources • PHET – Simulations for Physics, Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Math – Great for investigations – Simulations have lessons plans attached which you can utilize
- 13. Resources • The Engineering Place – Engineering lessons for Elementary and middle school – Links to other sites with engineering resources • The Engineering Place Drop Box – Additional Engineering lessons including lessons that can be used at the high school level. – Where the Bungee Barbie lab came from
- 14. Resources • Try Engineering – 113 lessons for all age ranges – Search engine to search by topic and age range • Teach Engineering – Massive resource for activities, lessons, and unit plans. – Search engine to search by topic and grade level