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An outstanding collection of engineering design briefs submitted by elementary teachers in Chesterfield Virginia

A free download from the NAP press Engineering in K-12 Education reviews the scope and impact of engineering education today and makes several recommendations to address curriculum, policy, and funding issues. The book also analyzes a number of K-12 engineering curricula in depth and discusses what is known from the cognitive sciences about how children learn engineering-related concepts and skills.

EiE allow for a great deal of exploration and will reach many different learning styles in the classroom.

Here you will find a variety of tools to boost your students’ math and science skills, enliven the classroom with engineering projects, expand your own professional horizons and stay informed. Subscribe, and a newsletter with updated features will arrive in your in-box every week.

An introduction to careers in engineering

Design and Discovery is an academic enrichment curriculum that engages students in hands-on engineering and design activities that enhance knowledge, and problem solving skill in the areas of science and engineering. Design and Discovery is most appropriate for informal education settings with extended blocks of time for hands-on activities.

Information on setting up an engineering club and setting up teams for competitions

While we are surrounded everyday by the products and systems designed by engineers, and helped in our lives around the world by the work of engineers, a National Academy of Engineering's report, Changing the Conversation: Messages for Improving Public Understanding of Engineering, shows an alarming lack of familiarity with the role of engineers in society. As a matter of technological literacy, it is important for students in the 21st century to understand the role engineers play in creating all

Your Discover"E" program is an opportunity for students and teachers to gain hands-on math and science experiences by working with someone who uses those subjects every day. That someone is you. The most successful Discover"E" programs—those that truly make an impression on students—include interactive projects. The National Engineers Week Committee is providing four for 2008. See also the archives for activities from other years.

This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students' families. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL). NSDL is the National Science Foundation's online library of resources for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Explore large structures and what it takes to build them with BUILDING BIG™, a five-part PBS television series and Web site from WGBH Boston.

The TeachEngineering Digital Library exists to provide teachers with the curricular materials to bring engineering into the K-12 classroom for a single day, a unit, or even an entire course - but why would a teacher introduce students to engineering in the first place? Below are some answers to that question from TeachEngineering and the K-12 engineering education community. The answers fall into two categories: 1) to improve your students' learning, and 2) to guide your students to great career

The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is an international community of 100 Computer Clubhouses located in 20 different countries around the world. The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.