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Toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergarteners are natural engineers. They love sand castles, blocks, fairy houses, and other projects that support their creative, fantasy play. We support this natural engineering instinct in preschool and kindergarten classrooms with blocks, LEGOs, sand and water tables, and other activities. As students reach first grade and beyond, we remove all these activities from school. Yet we still expect them be interested in engineering when they get to high school and college. The Elementary Engineering Curriculum (EEC), described in this book, supports students' natural engineering interests all through elementary school. The EEC delivers a preschool to grade six engineering experience based on BeeBot, and LEGO WeDo, NXT, and EV3 robotics. Each year, students have at least one robotics unit. In grades K, two, three, four, six, students also have an open ended engineering challenge. The EEC explicitly teaches the engineering design process in an age appropriate way. Robotics provides very high interest, motivating, and deep learning experience for students. This book contains rationale, descriptions, research, and teaching tips on elementary robotics as well as complete lesson plans and standards alignment for the curriculum.
About the Author: John is currently Technology Coordinator at the Williamsburg Elementary Schools. For the last eight years, he has designed and implemented an innovative technology curriculum that provides deep, rich, engaging technology experiences integrated with standards and curriculum. Key projects have included multimedia, robotics, video game programming, and animation. In 2008, John received the MassCUE (Massachusetts Computer Using Educators) Pathfinder Award for Technology Leadership. John has been a educational technology consultant for the Collaborative for Educational Services and a third grade classroom teacher and a Principal Software Engineer for Digital Equipment Corporation. John earned BSEE and MSEE/CS degrees from Tufts in 1981 and 1983 and a Masters of Education degree from Lesley College in 1992. He is currently pursuing a doctoral degree in math, science, and learning technologies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. John is a current member of the Lego Education Advisory Panel. He coaches soccer, baseball, and basketball and has a seven-year old son Aidan. When not playing with robots, John enjoys animal tracking, doing dog agility with his two whippets, juggling, and playing bluegrass music. He blogs at http: //www.jheffernan.com/ and http: //www.kidsengineer.com/.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781493524198
  • Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Publisher Imprint: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Depth: 6
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 12 mm
  • Weight: 494 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1493524194
  • Publisher Date: 16 Nov 2013
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 279 mm
  • No of Pages: 186
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: Sustaining the Natural Engineering Instincts of Children
  • Width: 216 mm


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