This five-day workshop prepares educators to teach the Engineering byDesign™ (EbD) seventh grade course (see course description below). Participants will learn the pedagogy and skills necessary to implement the seventh grade course, which may be used as an elective during the regular school day to enhance a district's STEM offerings, in an after school program, or as part of a summer camp or bridging program.
Description of EbD's Invention and Innovation Seventh Grade Course
In this course, students learn all about invention and innovation. They have opportunities to study the history of inventions and innovations, including their impacts on society. They learn about the core concepts of technology and about the various approaches to solving problems, including engineering design and experimentation. Students apply their creativity in the invention and innovation of new products, processes, or systems. Finally, students learn about how various inventions and innovations impact their lives. Students participate in engineering-design activities to understand how criteria, constraints, and processes affect designs. Students are involved in activities and experiences where they learn about brainstorming, visualizing, modeling, constructing, testing, experimenting, and refining designs. Students also develop skills in researching for information, communicating design information, and reporting results.For more information, including in-depth outline of this course, and other offerings of Engineering byDesign™ in Texas, please go to http://www.txstem.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=93
This workshop is at the Thompson Conference Center on UT campus in Austin, Texas.
For directions, please go to http://www.utexas.edu/ce/tcc/attend/maps-directions/
For parking map, please go to http://www.utexas.edu/ce/tcc/files/forms/TCC_Map_9.2011_
If you are a Texas public, charter, or private school educator, use promotional code TEXAS NETWORK when registering so that you receive the in-network price for Texas schools and T-STEM academies.