Primary Engineering Projects for Grade K Through 2

by Terry Green, Chris Rogers (Foreword)

Intent of

· Make engeering in primary grades accessable to all students through easy to implement, project based lessons using Lego building pieces

· Empower teachers with classroom tested, easy to implement engineering lessons


Good science teaching involves experiential, hands on learning

Students

Construct knowledge based on their experience working with Lego building pieces
Become teachers to other students and adults with new found knowledge or skills on how things work


Why engineering for K-2?

Kids are naturally curious
Love to build and explore materials
Not constrained by boundaries- will try any idea
Explore world around them in ways that help explain how things work




Working on teams and developing prototypes, students learn to

Solve problems
There are multipel ways to solve problems and represent solutions to problems
Communicate, verbally and graphically with sketches
Build skills working on teams that are life long skills (ie. working with others, especially teammate that are different from oneself, expressing ideas in words and sketch, learning how to compromise, come to consensus, and validate the ideas of others

140 pages, Unknown Binding

About the author

Many of you may know me as "Cashier Number Three!" And over the last twenty years or so around 25 million shoppers every month heard me summoning them from the queue in banks, shops and post offices everywhere.

My career has taken some interesting twists and turns - from cars to queues- cellular phones to celebrity chefs.

But I needed something more which is why I turned to a life of crime.

A reader commented that my first business book, You're Next, read like a thriller. That got me thinking. Could I write an entertaining, compelling series of novels set against the background of my career? Oh sure, there would have to be lies, fraud and murder, along with some delicious scandal and just a touch of romantic intrigue - in short, all the elements you'd expect in a compelling, page-turning thriller.

So here, from my base, on the western edge of Dartmoor, in delightful Devon, I'm plotting the career of Jake Elderfield. I hope you can join me on the journey.