engineering design in your stem classroom or club stacy s. klein-gardner, ph.d. director, center for...

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”?

Technology in a BagTechnology 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?

Engineering is Elementary Engineering is Elementary defines technology as: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?What is Engineering?

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

ASK

IMAGINE

PLAN

CREATEIMPROVE

THE GOAL

To solve a problem by developing or improving a technology

Criteria

ConstraintsSci. info

BrainstormingNo evaluation

Get specific with one idea

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