{"id":5819,"date":"2014-03-21T01:39:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T06:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asuen.wordpress.com\/?p=5819"},"modified":"2014-03-21T01:39:23","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T06:39:23","slug":"cool-engineering-activities-for-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/cool-engineering-activities-for-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Cool Engineering Activities for Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How can engineering help me solve problems?<\/strong> Help K-5 students answer this essential question (and meet the Common Core State Standards) with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1610694260\/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=1610694260&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=kidswrite-20\" target=\"_blank\">Teaching STEM<\/a> lesson plans for this mentor text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/745609846\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Cool Engineering Activities for Girls<\/a> by Heather E. Schwartz <em> (<a href=\"http:\/\/lexile.com\/book\/details\/9781429676779\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IG740L<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Cool engineering activities for girls\" alt=\"Cool engineering activities for girls\" src=\"http:\/\/coverart.oclc.org\/ImageWebSvc\/oclc\/+-+193451092_140.jpg?SearchOrder=+-+OT,OS,FA,GO\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Unit Summary:<\/strong> Students will examine <strong> the essential question, \u201cHow can engineering help me solve problems?\u201d<\/strong> Students will solve an actual engineering problem by designing and testing a paper airplane. They will test their products and have the opportunity to work in groups to redesign a second plane after examining the more successful plane designs. They will use the steps an engineer might follow to address the problem and design a solution, and then retest it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/teachingstem.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/teachingstem-med.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-69 alignright\" alt=\"TeachingSTEM.med\" src=\"http:\/\/teachingstem.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/11\/teachingstem-med.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a>The <strong>Library Activity<\/strong> begins on page 138. The <strong>Collaborative Teacher Activity<\/strong> is on page 140.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Extension Activities <\/strong><em>(sample)<\/em><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Have the students identify a problem they have in their daily life and design an invention that would help solve that problem.<\/p>\n<p>2. Have the students each make new airplanes and test them individually. Measure how far they fly and see if they have improved on their designs following the lesson.<\/p>\n<p>3. After reading the book, have the students write a short description of the main idea of the book. Use the phrase, \u201cI am a <strong>engineer<\/strong>. I know that _________.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><em>You can find more Teaching STEM lesson plans on the <a href=\"http:\/\/teachingstem.wordpress.com\/\">Teaching STEM blog<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!-- Copyright (c)2006 Site Meter -->Copyright \u00a9 2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\n<!-- Site Meter --><a href=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/stats.asp?site=s31asuen\" target=\"_top\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Site Meter\" src=\"http:\/\/s31.sitemeter.com\/meter.asp?site=s31asuen\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can engineering help me solve problems? Help K-5 students answer this essential question (and meet the Common Core State Standards) with the Teaching STEM lesson plans for this mentor text: Cool Engineering Activities for Girls by Heather E. Schwartz (IG740L) Unit Summary: Students will examine the essential question, \u201cHow can engineering help me solve &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/21\/cool-engineering-activities-for-girls\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cool Engineering Activities for Girls<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booktalks","category-chapter-book-of-the-day","category-stem-friday"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}