Integrating engineering and science in your classroom /
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Arlington, Virginia :
NSTA Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Part One. Engineering design
- 1. The engineering design process / Eric Brunsell
- 2. Science and engineering: two models of laboratory investigation / Jennifer Harkema, James Jadrich, and Crystal Bruxvoort
- 3. Using a cycle to find solutions: students solve local issues with a four-step cycle / Glenn Fay Jr.
- 4. Building models to better understand the importance of cost versus safety in engineering / William Sumrall and Michael Mott
- 5. Miniature sleds, go, go, go!: engineering project teaches kindergartners design technology / Gina A. Sarow
- 6. Science and engineering / Donna R. Sterling
- 7. Elementary design challenges: students examine NASA engineers / Jonathan W. Gerlach
- Part Two. Content area activities. Life and environmental science
- 8. Repairing femoral fractures: a model lesson in biomaterial science / Jarred Sakakeeny
- 9. Get a grip: a middle school engineering challenge / Suzanne A. Olds, Deborah A. Harrell, and Michael E. Valente
- 10. A partnership for problem-based learning: challenging students to consider open-ended problems involving gene therapy / Amanda Lockhart and Joseph Le Doux
- 11. Plastics in our environment: a jigsaw learning activity / Elaine Hampton, Mary Ann Wallace, Kristan Keele, and Wen-Yee Lee
- 12. Designed by nature: exploring linear and circular life cycles / Sandra Rutherford, Bonnie Wylo, Peggy Liggit, and Susan Santore
- 13. The sport-utility vehicle: debating fuel-economy standards in thermodynamics / Shannon Mayer. Content area activities. Earth science
- 14. Design challenges are "ELL-ementary": English language learners express understanding through language and actions / Nancy Yocom de Romero, Pat Slater, and Carolyn DeCristofano
- 15. Save the penguins: teaching the science of heat transfer through engineering design / Christine Schnittka, Randy Bell, and Larry Richards
- 16. Shake, rattle, and hopefully not fall: students explore earthquakes and building design / Adam Maltese
- Content area activities. Physical science
- 17. Gravity racers / Dawn Renee Wilcox, Shannon Roberts, and David Wilcox
- 18. The egg racer / Jeremy Brown and John Corbin
- 19. Engineering for all: strategies for helping students succeed in the design process / Pamela S. Lottero-Perdue, Sarah Lovelidge, and Erin Bowling
- 20. Fuel-cell drivers wanted / Todd Clark and Rick Jones
- 21. The science of Star Wars: integrating technology and benchmarks for science literacy / Stephanie Thompson
- 22. Catapulting into technological design / Kristen Hammes
- 23. Potato problem solving: a 5E activity addresses misconceptions about thermal insulation / Sarah J. Carrier and Annie Thomas
- 24. Nanoscale in perspective / Elvis H. Cherry, Weijie Lu, and R.P.H. Chang
- 25. What's so big about being small? / MaryKay Orgill and Kent J. Crippen
- Part Three. After-school programs
- 26. Fueling interest in science: an after-school program model that works / Kathleen Koenig and Margaret Hanson
- 27. The invention factory: student inventions aid individuals with disabilities / Thomas W. Speitel, Neil G. Scott, and Sandy D. Gabrielli
- 28. Engineering-a-future for tomorrow's young women / Susan Gore
- 29. A model of the INEEL Science and Engineering Expo for middle schools / Elda Zounar
- 30. Engineering in the classroom / Kathleen Matthew and Stacy Wilson.