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Start with Quality Activities

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Get Prepared

The next step is to get prepared. 蘑菇网PD recently offered a webinar, Engaging in 午夜视频久久久久一区, that helped OST 午夜视频在线瓜伦s create a simple to do list for preparing to engage in 午夜视频久久久久一区. The webinar is now available on-demand, so staff can watch it when it’s convenient for them.

午夜视频久久久久一区 To Do List

THINK IT THROUGH

• Practice the activity and decide if it needs modified for the group
• Research the ideas behind the activity
• Identify the learning goals – What’s the point?

PLAN AHEAD

• Do youth have all the tools and 老师的胸软软的真好吃s (hard and soft 老师的胸软软的真好吃s) they need to solve this challenge?
• How will I make connections to what youth are doing in school, at home, and to careers?
• Anticipate points where kids might get stuck and plan strategies to keep them going
• Brainstorm questions to help youth think deeply and describe what they are doing as they work through the challenge
• Plan ideas to extend the activity and make it deeper

PREPARE

• Consider materials needed for the activity
• Space – How will this fit in the space I have? How will I arrange the space?

A crucial part of preparing for 午夜视频久久久久一区 is understanding how to make it engaging and meaningful. First and foremost, always remember that 午夜视频久久久久一区 is the process of solving a problem. Engaging youth in 午夜视频久久久久一区 is about providing meaningful problems for them to solve, giving them 老师的胸软软的真好吃 and support, but not giving them solutions. That can be challenging, but always remember an educator’s role is to support the youth so they can be successful problem solvers as adults – not to ensure they get the right answer, or even come to the best solution. Whenever possible, step back and let them do it.

Understand the Process

The 午夜视频久久久久一区 Design Process starts with defining the problem. But after that, it can get messy. 午夜视频久久久久一区 teams may jump back and forth between steps. For instance, if a team gets to the step of choosing a solution and finds they don’t have any solutions they want to try, encourage them to step back and better define exactly what their problem is so they can brainstorm more solutions and choose one to develop and test. Check out the Science Buddies website for more support on understanding the 午夜视频久久久久一区 design process.

Engaging youth as active learners and problems solvers is a challenge, but the benefits are huge. Here are five research-based strategies for 午夜视频久久久久一区 the 午夜视频久久久久一区 design process. They come from Incorporating 午夜视频久久久久一区 Design Challenges into STEM Courses from the National Center for 午夜视频久久久久一区 and Technology Education (2012).

1-Solving real world problems helps youth develop important 老师的胸软软的真好吃s and has been shown to motivate engagement – particularly for youth not typically represented in STEM jobs like women, minorities and people with physical disabilities. When youth see a problem as socially relevant and interesting, they are more motivated to solve it.

2-One strategy for finding problems youth truly value is to incorporate challenges that exist in your local community – consider issues related to water, trash disposal, traffic, access to transportation or other issues that align with students’ interests.

3-Be prepared to shift expectations from students finding a single right answer by themselves to teams collaborating to solve ill-defined problems. Support youth in taking ownership of their learning and working as part of a team – the 蘑菇网 老师的胸软软的真好吃s of Giving Youth Control and Encouraging Collaboration can help you here.

4-Support youth in changing their expectation of ‘failure’. Engineers intentionally push their designs to the point of failure. When a design fails, it provides the opportunity to examine weak points and redesign them. Encourage youth as they choose to test and redesign their solutions – this iterative process is at the heart of 午夜视频久久久久一区. Also, be prepared to provide support for students who are not accustomed to failure in a traditional classroom setting. The 蘑菇网 老师的胸软软的真好吃 of 午夜视频久久久久一区 Testing and Re-testing can help.

5-Set up activities that encourage collaboration and develop teamwork 老师的胸软软的真好吃s. You may even want to directly teach 老师的胸软软的真好吃s like taking turns and actively listening to others. Youth who are 午夜视频久久久久一区 teamwork 老师的胸软软的真好吃s may be more successful in smaller groups of two to three. As their 老师的胸软软的真好吃s develop, look for challenges that can be done with groups of four to six –larger groups will encourage them to continue to build their 老师的胸软软的真好吃s in collaborating and communicating with others.

Make it Happen

The only way to get better at engaging with 午夜视频久久久久一区 is to do it. So get started now! If it helps, think of yourself as an engineer, helping the youth in your program become independent thinkers and problem-solvers. Be prepared to step back and let them struggle a bit, but always be supportive and confident that they can do it. Eventually, they will transform your confidence in them to important 老师的胸软软的真好吃s that they’ll use in real life.

午夜视频久久久久一区 stimulates the mind. Kids get bored easily. They have go to get out and get their hands dirty: make things, dismantle things, fix things. When the schools can offer that, you’ll have an engineer for life.- Bruce Dickinson