Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning

Moyer, Richard H,Everett, Susan A

ISBN 10: 1936137194 / ISBN 13: 9781936137190

Published by NSTA Press, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Everyday Engineering: Putting the E in STEM Teaching and Learning
• Publisher: NSTA Press
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1936137194
• ISBN 13: 9781936137190
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

Here’s an ideal way to spark students’ fascination with the marvels of engineering behind the seemingly simple. This book is a compilation of popular “Everyday Engineering” columns from NSTA’s middle school journal, Science Scope. The collection is made up of 14 activities that explore engineering’s role in five areas: the office, the kitchen, the bathroom, electricity, and outdoor recreation. Students can perform hands-on investigations of objects they use all the time, asking questions such as: • What makes a Bic click? • Why do squirt guns squirt? • What makes a better cereal box? Each activity includes a clear explanation of the science and history behind the object’s development plus a materials list, student data sheets, and safety suggestions. The collection is useful to classroom teachers as well as scout leaders, engineers leading outreach activities, after-school and summer enrichment program staff, and parents. Everyday Engineering may soon have your students taking a number of things apart―and putting together a lifelong interest in engineering.

About the Author

RICHARD H. MOYER is emeritus professor of science education and natural sciences at the University of Michigan–Dearborn, where he developed and taught courses in the science education program. He is a coauthor of McGraw-Hill’s Inspire Science and Science: A Closer Look. He and Dr. Everett are co-authors of a college science methods book as well as the original Everyday Engineering. Dr. Moyer has conducted hundreds of teacher workshops both nationally and internationally.