A goal of this blog is to promote teaching young people the
engineering method. I have spent over twenty years teaching middle and
high school students engineering. I think the best way to teach
engineering is by doing engineering with a minimum of lecture time and
and a maximum lab time. The labs or projects need to be interesting and
relevant to kids. We try to create labs where students use math as a
tool that saves them time when doing the engineering project. We explain
the underlying science ideas or better yet we try to get the students
to rediscover these concepts. The sweet spot is a class that is both
engaging and academically rigorous.
I will provide tips and trick for teaching kids engineering as well
as news that you might find interesting. Here are some of the topics I
will cover:
- Aviation featuring Fly To Learn
- Bridges featuring West Point Bridge Designer
- Programming including Scratch,Python and C++
- Physical computing — think Arduino
- Raspberry Pi Computing
- Robotics featuring LEGO EV3, NXT and Tetrix
I have linked a
local TEDx talk
I did in Charlotte last year. It explains my views on teaching
children. I am very curious what you think and I hope you will share
your ideas.
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