Children’s Engineering – Sylvia Anderson

Children’s Engineering fits into what you already do in the classroom and can be used with all subjects.

Children’s Engineering Teaches:

state and national standards
critical and creative thinking
problem-solving
hands-on learning
decision making
reading comprehension
cooperative skills
differentiated instruction

Children’s Engineering Results in:

ownership of essential knowledge
self-confident learners
applied knowledge
21st-century skills

Design Brief Resources

How to Create a Design Brief

Background Information – Tie the design brief into what you’ve been studying. For example: We have been learning about frogs and their life cycle.

– Decide what you want your final product to be (design and create, design and build, etc.). For example: Design and create a frog that demonstrates the knowledge you have gained about frogs.

Criteria – List the constraints and limitations for the design brief’s final product –

– What must it include?
– What must it do?
– What are the time restraints?
– Are they working alone or with a partner?

For example: Your frog must –

– have at least 5 facts that you learned written neatly and displayed on your frog, including at least one about its life cycle.
– have one or more moving parts.
– work alone or with a partner.

Materials – List the materials students can use. They may only use what is on the list but do not have to use all of the materials. These are the things that will remain on the finished product.

Tools – List the tools they can use. Again, they need to stick to the list but do not have to use them all. (scissors, crazy scissors, hole punch, ruler, markers, crayons, colored pencils)

SOL – List the SOLs the project covers.

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Design Brief Resources

How to Create a Design Brief

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