Wed, Feb 15, 2012 8:42 PM in Design Technology in Grades 3 - 5
There is a wonderfull set of resources on the VA Children's Engineering Site that are based on the design process. http://www.childrensengineering.org/
And most of the Design Squad activities lend themselves very easily to this structure.
http://pbskids.org/designsquad/parentseducators/index.html
Here is a Pitsco link also
http://www.childrensengineering.com/freeresources.htm
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Wed, Feb 15, 2012 1:54 PM in From STEM to STEAM?
Wonderful article in the Post yesterday about the annual NSF visualizations competitions--definitely an enticement for artistic scientists.
http://www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/scivis/winners_2011.jsp
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Wed, Feb 15, 2012 1:43 PM in BrushBots, Robotics
We did this as a test site for the Klutz people--so much fun! And very easy to do.
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