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Teaching Engineering Made Easy: A Friendly Introduction to Engineering Activities for Middle School Teachers
Author: Celeste Baine and Cathi Cox
Pub Date: 03/2006
Spiral Bound, List Price $34.99, 8.5" x 11", 208 pages
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Book Description: This easy and exciting time and work saving book was developed to help middle and high school teachers with no engineering background teach engineering. The activities are designed 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. They were developed and tested by a professional science teacher who sought to expose students to engineering with enjoyable learning experiences. For easy use, the lessons and activities are spiral bound to enable an 8.5" x 11" lay-flat format for photocopying.
This book is organized into 3 sections:
1. Introduction to Engineering
2. Engineering activities
a. Team building activities
b. Problem solving activities
c. Chemical, Mechanical and Civil and Engineering Design Activities (15 activities)
3. Engineering Crossword and Word Search Puzzles
Each section offers detailed lessons with reproducible student activity sheets. Each lesson includes:
Background information
Standards compliance
A list of materials needed to complete the activity
An easy-to-follow procedure for presenting the lesson
Teacher Notes
Student Sheets
Safety Notes
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Team Building Activities
- The Whale Band-Aid
- Carbon Copy Creations
- Creating a Collaborative Clan
- What's in the Bag?
- Hampered By Height
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Chemical Engineering
- The Puzzle of Nine
- Digging into Diapers
- The Bountiful Bag
- The Pop in Your Pop!
- Reactionary Rockets
- Stretching the Truth
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Mechanical Engineering
- The Mark of Success
- How Do I Hover?
- Totally Tops
- The Indy Card Car
- The Cardboard Chair
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Civil Engineering
- Bolstering books
- Pasta Bridges
- Ten Second Tower
- The Two Feet Feat
- Boat Bonanza!
Resources
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Reviews!
“This book takes a fun approach to topics that can be difficult to teach to younger students. This has quite a few valuable lessons, and shows teachers how to “think outside the box” when teaching students to do the same.”
--Jessica Berger, Caston Jr./Sr. High School, Science Dept.
“This guide will help teachers who want to teach engineering, but have had no exposure to the subject. Teachers can privately learn the engineering principles involved in each case without having to admit to anyone that they did not know them in advance.”
--Dr. H. E. Dunsmore, Dept of Computer Science, Purdue University
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