Engineering Design in Your STEM Classroom or Club Stacy S. Klein-Gardner, Ph.D. Director, Center for STEM Education for Girls Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, TN

Today’s Agenda Introduction to Technology and Engineering Activities, with thanks to Engineering is Elementary The TeachEngineering.org website with examples Innovation Portal and the engineering design process portfolio scoring rubric (EDPPSR) Brainstorm engineering in your classroom or club

What comes to mind when you hear the word “technology”? Brainstorm at your table for two minutes. Table share out (2 per table). Write list on board Do not go over. Leave on board and come back to it. Tech in a bag.

Technology in a Bag What is the technology? What does your technology do? What problem does it solve? How else could you use it? What material is it made of? What other materials could it be made of? Hand out bags. Answer the following questions at your table 5-10 minutes for small group discussion Ask or 3 examples to be presented. Example 1: focus on function of object Example 2: focus on material properties and how materials are an intergral part of design. Example 3: Alternative purposes (come back to this group later when you segue into Tower Power. What are some things you learned about technoloy that you took away from this lesson? How would you change this list? Is there anything you would add or take away? (GO BACK) Then EiE definition.

Engineering is Elementary defines technology as: Anything human-made that is used to solve a problem or fulfill a desire. Technology can be an object, a system or a process.

What is Engineering? Today we have a problem that requires the work of engineers. The museum of science is developing an exhibit on psychology and with every exhibit there needs to be, what we call in the business, a hook. So in this case, the developers wanted a hook that inspires the visitor to be curious about different personality traits. Developers decided on a bunch of animal statues because Animals in many different cultures represent different personal qualities; for example, in the US, owls represent wisdom, foxes slyness, tigers aggression and in this example, dogs represent loyalty. Hold up dog. Set on ground. So what do you think of the statue?

What is the problem? You need to solve this problem. What do you want to know before you start?

Using verbs, describe what you did during the design process.

The Engineering Design Process Brainstorming Criteria No evaluation IMAGINE Constraints Sci. info ASK THE GOAL To solve a problem by developing or improving a technology PLAN Get specific with one idea IMPROVE CREATE And test

TeachEngineering.org National digital library Free resource

Innovation Portal http://www.innovationportal.org Free resource

How can I help? Stacy.gardner@harpethhall.org