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The Engineering Process in the Classroom

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Ah the E in STEAM, the Engineering Process, to me this is the most integral and essential piece of STEAM.  Science, Technology, Arts, and Math are all options to pull in but the heart of STEAM lies with the engineering process in the classroom.
Welcome back to my series on STEAM.  To read the first two posts you can click the links below.
What is STEAM?
5 Components of an Effective STEM lesson 

The Essential Engineering Process

As I mentioned in my 5 Components of an Effective STEAM lesson the engineering process is essential. I like to introduce the Engineering Process with a book (I am an ELA girl at heart), Rosie Revere, Engineer. The book is about a little girl who loves to invent crazy gadgets and gizmos. She collects “stuff” to make her creations, one day she makes her uncle a hat which he says he loves but he laughs at it and it hurts Rosie’s feelings so she hides her inventions away until one day when her Aunt Rose comes to visit.  Will Rosie be able to create a flying machine for her aunt?  Or will she give up? I absolutely LOVE this book, it actually made me cry the first time I read it because it is my middle child to a T! He is my inventing, junk collecting, tinker!  You may have a “Rosie” in your life or classroom!  

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Activities for the Book

We read the book and do all of the great ELA activities I created to go with it!  These are just three of them! There are several more including sequencing, beginning, middle, end, a Venn Diagram, and more!

             

Then we start talking about the engineering process!  How engineers solve problems and they create solutions and test them out and then make them even better!!! The kids really get it using this book! I have included an Engineering Invention planning guide for you to use with your students as well! It really gets them thinking about the Engineering Process and Inventions.

  

We also do our first STEAM challenge after reading this book.  The challenge is to create a “Flying Machine” just like Rosie does in the book.

If you would like to grab this Reader Response Unit to introduce the engineering process you can click the picture below.

This really sets the tone for the year with our STEAM lessons including the Engineering Process and using a Growth Mindset all year long!
I have the Engineering Process up on our STEAM bulletin board as well.
to grab it and the other STEAM posters click the picture below!

Engineering and Other STEM Posters
Be sure to check back soon for another STEAM post! Thanks for stopping by!

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