Teaching Engineering Made Easy: A Friendly Introduction to Engineering Activities for Middle School Teachers (Second Edition)

In this second edition of Teaching Engineering Made Easy: A Friendly Introduction to Engineering Activities for Middle School Teachers, Celeste Baine and Cathi Cox-Boniol have revised, updated and improved their must-have resource for middle school teachers. This easy and exciting time and work saving book was developed to help middle and high school teachers with no engineering background teach engineering. It offers a ready collection of projects, lessons and activities to help teachers stimulate student s thought processes and get them thinking like an engineer. By using this teaching guide, students can see that engineering is not something to be afraid of but a realistic way to solve the problems of everyday life.

Teaching Engineering Made Easy gives classroom teachers an easy and dynamic way to meet curriculum standards and competencies. You ll find the lessons and activities to actively engage students in learning about engineering and our technological world by applying creativity and innovation as they complete the projects. The activities do not require a formal science lab and can be done with materials that are inexpensive and easy to find.

This updated edition is divided into five units:
1. Team Building
2. Problem Solving
3. Chemical Engineering
4. Mechanical Engineering and
5. Civil Engineering.

Each lesson includes background information, ITEEA and NSTA Standards Alignment, a list of materials needed to complete the activity, an easy-to-follow procedure for presenting the lesson, teacher notes, reproducible student sheets, and safety notes. Activities range from 20 minute problem solving exercises to several class period design or challenge activities.

Celeste Baine is a biomedical engineer, Director of the Engineering Education Service Center and the award-winning author of over twenty books and booklets on engineering careers and education. She won the Norm Augustine Award from the National Academy of Engineering (The Norm Augustine award is given to an engineer who has demonstrated the capacity for communicating the excitement and wonder of engineering). She also won the American Society for Engineering Education's Engineering Dean Council's Award for the Promotion of Engineering Education and Careers and is listed on the National Engineers Week website as one of 50 engineers you should meet. The National Academy of Engineering has included Celeste in their Gallery of Women Engineers and she has been named one of the Nifty-Fifty individuals who have made a major impact on the field of engineering by the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Cathi Cox-Boniol, currently ACHIEVE Coordinator for Lincoln Parish Schools, left a 17 year career at Choudrant High School in 1998 to become the Site Coordinator for Louisiana Tech University's Project LIFE. While at Louisiana Tech, she moved into the Program Coordinator position for CATALyST, the university s Center for Applied Teaching and Learning to Yield Scientific Thinking. Now forging community based partnerships through Lincoln ACHIEVE, Cox-Boniol has initiated both the STEM Satellite and STEM Seed magnet programs as well as a creative writing emphasis in partnership with Louisiana Tech and Grambling State Universities.