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Thinking Like an Engineer
Lessons That Develop Habits of Mind and Thinking Skills for Young Engineers in Grade 4
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Thinking Like an Engineer
Lessons That Develop Habits of Mind and Thinking Skills for Young Engineers in Grade 4
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Thinking Like an Engineer focuses on high-interest, career-related topics in the elementary curriculum related to engineering. Students will explore interdisciplinary content, foster creativity, and develop higher order thinking skills with activities aligned to relevant content area standards. Students will complete design challenges, visit with an engineer, and investigate real-world problems to plan feasible engineering solutions. Thinking Like an Engineer reflects key emphases of curricula from the Center for Gifted Education at William & Mary, including the development of process skills in various content areas and the enhancement of discipline-specific thinking and habits of mind through hands-on activities. Grade 4
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UNIT 1 WHAT IS AN ENGINEER?
DOI: 10.4324/9781003239093-2
RATIONALE
The unit will familiarize students with engineers and their characteristics, job roles, and careers. The unit concludes with an introduction to design thinking using the engineering design process.
PLAN
In Lesson 1.1, students will complete a Draw an Engineer Test. This assessment should be readministered after Unit 6 is completed to examine the progress made by students. After completing the test, students will complete a Frayer model in order to develop a definition of an engineer.
In Lesson 1.2, students will read a biography about an engineer. Throughout the unit, students should remember and compare the characteristics of the real-life engineer to their own characteristics as they solve various problems.
In Lesson 1.3, students will be introduced to the engineering design process on a āneed to knowā basis. Students will be given a challenge to solve before they are provided information about the engineering design process. After completing the challenge, students will reflect on and discuss how their design/solution could be better and what they need to improve it.
LESSON 1.1 WHAT IS AN ENGINEER?
DOI: 10.4324/9781003239093-3
RESOURCES AND MATERIALS
- Lesson 1.1 Draw an Engineer Test
- Sticky notes
- Chart paper with blank Frayer model
- Video: āSolve Problems: Be an Engineer!ā (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9I35Rqo04E)
ESTIMATED TIME
60-75 minutes
OBJECTIVES
In this lesson students will:
- illustrate an engineer,
- compare and contrast various illustrations of engineers,
- evaluate roles and characteristics of engineers, and
- develop a definition of an engineer.
CONTENT
The purpose of the Draw an Engineer Test (Knight & Cunningham, 2004) is to understand and use studentsā preconceived ideas to help guide instruction. Typically, students will draw engineers as men who fix things.
Working with the Frayer model will allow students to examine the roles and characteristics of engineers through brainstorming, discussion, and structured argument.
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE
- Skills: compare and contrast, data collection, presentation tools
- Vocabulary: engineer, characteristics, example, nonexample, career
INSTRUCTIONAL SEQUENCE
- Distribute Lesson 1.1 Draw an Engineer Test to determine studentsā existing perceptions of engineers. Instruct students to draw an engineer in an engineerās work environment. You may ask: What does an engineer do? What does an engineer look like?
- After students complete the drawing, divide them into groups of 3-4. Instruct students to compare and contrast their drawings with their group membersā by completing the graphic organizer included in Lesson 1.1 Draw an Engineer Test.
- Have students create a list of shared characteristics that they can all agree on. Students should then develop a new drawing based on their groupās consensus. These revised drawings could be completed using regular paper or poster-sized paper. Alternately, students could complete this exercise using a computer or tablet drawing application, such as Sketchpad.
- Display the new drawings, and ask groups to participate in a gallery walk, noting how other groupsā drawings are similar and different.
- As an alternative to creating a new drawing, students could use an app such as HP Reveal to create a video about an engineer. The original drawing would launch the video; during the gallery walk, students could access the video through the app.
- Once students have completed their gallery walk, present the video āSolve Problems: Be an Engineer.ā
- Present a class Frayer model created on chart paper or projected on the board (see Figure 3). In groups of 3-4, students should list roles and tasks of an engineer on sticky notes. Have students add their sticky notes to the class Frayer model.
- As a class, have students categorize engineering roles and tasks based on identified and agreed-upon criteria. Although students have not yet learned about the engineering design process, look for students to form criteria such as āengineers ask questions,ā āengineers create and improve,ā etc.
- In their groups, have students list examples of engineering titles or jobs (e.g., chemical engineer, electrical engineer, etc.). Have students add their examples to the class Frayer model.
- Conduct a debate in which students discuss whether or not the examples are correct. For example, students might ask, āIs there an...
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents Page
- Introduction
- Unit 1: What Is an Engineer?
- Unit 2: Who Can Be an Engineer?
- Unit 3: Design Cities Like an Engineer
- Unit 4: Care for Your World Like an Engineer
- Unit 5: Explore Beyond Your World Like an Engineer
- Unit 6: You Can Be an Engineer
- References
- About the Author
- Next Generation Science Standards Alignment
- Common Core State Standards Alignment