The Engineering is Elementary (EiE, www.mos.org/eie) project aims to foster engineering and technological literacy among children and their educators. EiE is creating a research-based, standards-based, and classroom-tested curriculum that integrates engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics. EiE materials also connect with literacy, social studies, and mathematics. Through engaging engineering design challenges children are invited to apply their knowledge of science, engineering, and their problem solving skills, as they design, create, and improve possible solutions. The EiE project also focuses on helping elementary educators enhance their understandings of engineering concepts and pedagogies through professional development programs and resources. Over the past four years as we have created curricular materials, offered a wide range of professional development workshops, solicited extensive teacher and student feedback and evaluation, and observed elementary engineering teaching in classrooms, the EiE project team has learned a great deal about teaching and doing engineering with elementary teachers and students. Eleven EiE staff have offered over 140 professional development workshops for over 2700 teachers in 21 states.
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