User:Vtaylor/Engineering: Arts + Sciences
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virtual MOAS
- web pages, tours * artifacts, history, experience, make
- educator guide
- Coca-Cola docent exhibition guide
virtual tours of exhibits
- Root collection - bottling machines, race car, trains, teddy bears, drug store circa 18xx?
- bottle design, bottling machinery - engineering design process - glass, stoppers, caps - criteria, constraints
- calendars
- advertising, promotional items - printing, lithography, design, distribution
- children's museum exhibits
- quilts
- collection, curation, exhibition
easy steam
fish & birds M.C.Escher tessellation quilt - example of arts & sciences - collaboration. inter-connected. visible separately. Escher - artist, nature, man-made structures, messes with reality, perception, known science * pinterest
teaching learning elementary engineering for educators k-8 first new introduction quick start guided busy teachers integrating gr8 great EASY engineering and society for youth everywhere
- videos - showing projects, describing engineering
- examples, models
- suggestions for community of practice
Engineering: Arts + Sciences
How might we WHAT for WHOM in order to CHANGE something?
Questions correspond to the steps in the Engineering Design Process.
- **Ask** (What? Ask questions, understand the need, identify the problem, define)
- **Imagine** (So what? Imagine, brainstorm, explore, discover)
- **Plan** (Now what? Plan, design)
- **Create** (Do it. Create, try it out)
- **Improve** (If this then what? Improve, make it better)
mooc canvas professional development * what can it do ? learning stations tpt
- teaching, lessons, in a minute / 5 minutes, integrating into science, math, social studies
ask
- Ask - so what? what can it do?
- overview, introduction * what can it do * Engineering: Arts + Sciences. Tessellated interconnected. Need both. Tools. Knowledge. Integration collaboration
- design thinking, process - Ask, Imagine, Plan, Create, Improve
- learning literacies - Find, Solve, Use, Make, Share, Protect
- How Things Work - Mechanics of Movement - change the direction of force * inclined plane * levers * wheels & axles * gears & belts * cams & cranks * pulleys * screws * rotating wheels * springs * friction
- create - rocket car with water bottle, balloon, straws - wheels, movement - linear, circular, rotational
- Find
imagine
- sources of inspiration. Borrow and scale, repurpose new applications. Creativity. Imagination. Curiosity. No limits. Doesn't need to work or even be possible. Brainstorming. Crowds. Groups teams. . Collaboration. Cooperation.
- Statue of Liberty - thin copper skin over a framework like a tower inside
- How Things Work - Harnessing the Elements - materials, turning natural basic material into man-made
- create -
- Solve. Problem solving process steps. Critical thinking.
plan
- How Things Work - Working with Waves
- Use
create
- How Things Work - Electricity & Automation
- Make
improve
- How Things Work - The Digital Domain
- Share
learning literacies
teaching and learning - lifelong learners - curious, self-directed, problem-solving. skills, processes, practice, application
- How Things Work - The Invention of Machines
- Protect
try this...
hands-on activities
- visualization - tessellation
- structures - toothpick, mini marshmallow tower
- motion, wheels - balloon rocket car - water bottle, straws, bottle caps
- electricity - squishy circuits - salt, flour dough
- digital - hour of code
- pulleys
- paper helicopter - strip with 2 cuts?
- water bottle ornament - thermo plastic
learn more...
The New How Things Work - 1998 https://www.amazon.com/New-Way-Things-Work/dp/0395938473/
- Mechanics of Movement
- Harnessing the Elements
- Working with Waves
- Electricity & Automation
- The Digital Domain
- The Invention of Machines
The Way Things Work Now - 2016 https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-Now/dp/0544824385/
The Way Things Work - 1988 https://www.amazon.com/Way-Things-Work-David-Macaulay/dp/0395428572/
- 3D
- units, measurement
- Cars, trucks, planes, boats, trains
- Roads, bridges
- Clothes, footwear, jewelry
- Buildings - houses, skyscrapers
- Grand Challenges
- 100 top inventions
- UN Development Goals
Engineering is...
- Engineering is the silent E in STEM / STEAM
- designed world, man-made
- everywhere
Engineering and Society for Youth (EASY) - applying science to benefit the global community
- Scientists ask questions about the world around us, whereas engineers modify the world to adapt it to our needs. Scientific inquiry is concerned with what is, while engineering design is focused on what can be.
Motivation, goals, interest - from Marilla D. Svinicki, Ph.D.
- Because the ideas for enhancing motivation sound so straightforward (like... make the task interesting), instructors dismiss them as too simple for such a daunting task as improving student motivation.
- brilliant thinkers like Charles Darwin - search for their purpose
- brilliant doers like Thomas Edison - know what the purpose is; they are just trying to find out how to achieve it in reality.
- assigned or self-generated goals, simply having SOME goal spurs motivation.
