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Kasey, I am a preservice teacher and we recently learned about this in class! A really fun way to get students involved in the engineering process is to make them little engineers! You can lay out a problem to the students and they have to be the engineers who come up with a solution! You give them the problem, their materials and time limit, and who their audience is that they want to sell their product or service to! For example, you tell your kiddos that a gardener needs a way to keep animals out of their garden. With the supplies provided, they must build something that will keep the animals out, without hurting them and persuade the gardener to buy their product! A fun, real life example of how students can solve a problem and create a model!
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