Engineering Design-Based Science Activities

The National Academy of Sciences has released the final version of "A Framework for K-12 Science Education." This framework will be used to write new national standards for science education called Next Generation Science Standards. Many states will be adopting these standards, and faced with new challenges. One significant challenge is that the new science standards will subsume "engineering" as a disciplinary core idea along with life sciences, earth/space sciences, and physical sciences.

In anticipation for this change, I have begun a search for quality curriculum that merges science with engineering in meaningful ways. Additionally, I have begun crafting unique curricula that meet the following key objectives:

- Give students the opportunity to design, build, and test as engineers

- Celebrate diverse backgrounds and learning styles

- Address deep science concepts that relate to engineering design challenges

- Downplay competition and emphasize cooperation and collaboration

- Engage ALL students, not just those who are deemed "future engineers" because engineering is a way of thinking, a problem-solving method that part of being a technologically literate person

- Through the engineering design, provide activities that are personally meaningful, and provide a context for learning science

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