Intent of book:
· Make engeering in primary grades accessable to all students through easy to implement, project based lessons using Lego building pieces
· Empower teachers with classroom tested, easy to implement engineering lessons
Good science teaching involves experiential, hands on learning
Students
Construct knowledge based on their experience working with Lego building pieces
Become teachers to other students and adults with new found knowledge or skills on how things work
Why engineering for K-2?
Kids are naturally curious
Love to build and explore materials
Not constrained by boundaries- will try any idea
Explore world around them in ways that help explain how things work
Working on teams and developing prototypes, students learn to
Solve problems
There are multipel ways to solve problems and represent solutions to problems
Communicate, verbally and graphically with sketches
Build skills working on teams that are life long skills (ie. working with others, especially teammate that are different from oneself, expressing ideas in words and sketch, learning how to compromise, come to consensus, and validate the ideas of others
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