This project addresses the current and critical need for improved teacher training in effectively teaching engineering through an on-going, collaborative professional development program for upper elementary and middle school teachers in North Dakota, focusing on rural and Native schools surrounding and within the Spirit Lake and Turtle Mountain Nations.
This video tells the story of how our team worked together to keep IDEAS Maker Program going in challenging circumstances, and what the remote making experience has been like.
This video showcases how attention to both work products and processes has the potential to provide to teachers evidence of students’ ability to engage in engineering practices, with a particular emphasis on optimizing design solutions, which includes iteration, systematic investigation, incorporating feedback, and combining elements of previous designs.
The EngrTEAMS project is a curriculum development and coaching project that has focused on engineering design in the intermediate and middle level classrooms.
