Designing the Future
The school year has ended and many of you are already planning your new year. If you are like any of the many teachers I have worked...
The school year has ended and many of you are already planning your new year. If you are like any of the many teachers I have worked...
In my last blog posting, I outlined an overview of the challenges of effectively assessing learning in the context of Engineering Design...
With the holidays approaching and the first half of the academic year wrapping up, it is a good time to reflect and re-assess. You know...
Engineering in Your Classroom – Five Activities to Try Change in the classroom can be an overwhelming process. At ProjectEngin, we always...
At ProjectEngin, some of our most exciting curriculum work centers around creating Engineering Design challenges that look to Nature for...
Descriptions and graphics concerning the Engineering Design Process (EDP) can be found in many different resources and websites. They...
Engineering is a natural process for most of us. We are continually developing solutions to challenges that are framed by constraints and...
(This is Part 1 of a three part series focused on using the Engineering Design Process to support a culture of creative problem-solving...
Work to support imagination, teach creativity, and focus on process. We like to think of imagination as free-range thinking that just...
Countless research studies and initiatives have focused on our inability to attract female students to STEM fields. The percentages for...
At ProjectEngin, we focus on supporting the inclusion of Engineering Design in K-12 education. Much of our initial exposure to teachers,...
What makes a great Engineering Design project? What creates the magic promised by project-based learning? The range and variety of...
The Top 5 E-Reasons Engagement: Engineering is the process that brings the built world into existence. And that is very much the world...
The beginning of the school year brings lots of blogs, tweets, articles, and discussions about new things to try in the classroom. It is...
The STEM acronym is a bit of a double-edged sword in my world. On the one hand, as I discussed in my previous post, it can set up new...
I have been in the world of STEM education for quite some time and I am happy to report that there is universal consensus that (a)...
How does this make sense? More than any other aspect of our outdated education system, the narrow, longitudinal delivery of information...
I left the classroom almost one year ago because of an increasing sense of trying to swim upstream in an educational river of mud. Speak...
President Obama’s call to “Educate to Innovate” has become a favorite catchphrase of the STEM movement. But it really doesn’t address the...
In an earlier post, I mentioned a project my Engineering classes did this year concerning stormproof housing. I have had a lot of...