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Novel Engineering, K–8 - An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy (Paperback)
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Novel Engineering, K–8 - An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy (Paperback)
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With the Novel Engineering approach, “students become excited
about what they are reading, writing, designing, and building! This
excitement in turn helps them make strides in engineering and
literacy, as well as in their abilities to work together, think
creatively and analytically, and communicate their ideas.”
—from Chapter 1 of Novel Engineering This book will both
introduce your students to an exciting integrated curriculum and
support you as you use it in your own elementary or middle school
classroom. Novel Engineering shows how your students can work
through engineering design challenges inspired by a broad range of
literature—novels and short stories, biographies and histories,
or even picture books. By way of introduction, the book offers
clear conceptual background and practical advice on how the
approach works: Your students pull information from literature to
identify a problem. Then, using details from the story or text,
they go through an engineering design process to develop functional
solutions for their “clients”—the book’s characters. To
support your efforts and bring the concept to life, the book gives
you five in-depth case studies featuring the use of novels, a
biography, and a nonfiction historical text. In addition to
demonstrating what a Novel Engineering project looks like in an
actual classroom, the case studies give you practice in thinking
about what your students’ work might look like and how you would
respond. One case describes a class in which students help the
shipwrecked Swiss Family Robinson build a shelter to keep them cool
under the hot sun. Another tells of students who design a hearing
aid for the main character in El Deafo—and then style it as a
fashion accessory. You’ll see that the books used in the case
studies are just suggestions. You don’t have to adopt texts
outside your existing English language arts or social studies
curriculum. You also don’t have to buy a specific
building-materials kit. You just have to embrace the idea that
literacy and engineering can support each other in your
classroom—and then watch the excitement build.
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