"What is Engineering?" Resources & Lesson Plan

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Grade: Kindergarten. Duration: 1 hour. Type: Website with a lesson plan, video, and other resources. This website is FULL of amazing resources giving Kindergarteners an intro to Engineering. It provides a video, a read-aloud, discussion questions, vocabulary. I love that it has the 5E learning cycle incorporated into the lesson plan!

Performance Expectations

K-2-ETS1-1   Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

K-2-ETS1-2   Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

K-2-ETS1-3   Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.