Bringing STEM to the elementary classroom

Part 1: Grades prek-5

How to develop an engineering design task

Minding design missteps

Teaching through trade books

More teaching through trade books

Part 2: Grades prek-2

Gimme an E!

The EDP-5E

Can a student really do what engineers do?

Catch me if you can!

Inviting engineering into the science lab

Integrating design

Elephant trunks and dolphin tails

Engineering adaptations

Sailing into the digital era

Inventing mystery machines

Am I really teaching engineering to elementary students?

The STEM of inquiry

Printing the playground

A house for Chase the dog

Measuring success

Part 3: Grades 3-5

Think it, design it, build it, test it, refine it

Community-based engineering

Engineer it, learn it

Designing a sound-reducing wall

Blade structure and wind turbine function

You and your students as green engineers

Smashing milk cartons

Creating a prosthetic hand

Gliding into understanding

A system of systems

Blasting off with engineering

SCAMPERing into engineering

Wacky weather

Straw rockets are out of this world

Nature as inspiration

The tightrope challenge

Modeling water filtration.