In preparation for the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a team of teachers, science educators, science professors, and engineering professors at a comprehensive polytechnic university are collaboratively developing engineering modules for pre-service teachers in the Liberal Studies major. These engineering modules are designed to expose future teachers to the field of engineering and to serve as examples of hands-on activities that could later be used in their K-12 classrooms. The associated pedagogy of open-ended design challenges in meaningful context and the iterative engineering design cycle are also part of the curriculum. Hands-on engineering design activities are to be integrated into four of the six existing science courses for Liberal Studies majors. The third course in the science sequence is an Earth science course. The engineering module for this course is called Saving Rivertown. This module is broken into four activities, each taking 45-60 minutes of class time.
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