Description
Whether you are reading a picture book, early reader, or chapter book, students can participate in creative problem solving as a way to interact with the story. Characters face problems and those problems require potential solutions.
That’s where our students come in to save the day! They choose a potential problem to solve and then design their own solution.
Novel Engineering is a fun way to immerse children in literature and makerspaces. It’s really fun to stop the story early and invite students to create their own ending through the design process.
👉🏼 YOU ARE GOING TO LOVE CONNECTING LITERATURE TO YOUR MAKERSPACE!
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Included
AFTER downloading this resource you’ll get:
⭐Engineering and Design posters that you can print and hand in your space.
⭐Novel Engineering Journal that you can edit on your computer first then print and copy for students to plan, record, and reflect.
⭐Engineering and Design Song, sung to the tune of Baby Shark, that helps students learn the design process.
🖥️ Editable Novel Engineering Journal. You can edit the journal before assigning it to students. Students then edit the journal as they engage in the engineering process.
Standards
This activity addresses the following standards:
AASL:
- Learners engage with the learning community by collaboratively identifying innovative solutions to a challenge or problem.
- Learners construct new knowledge by problem solving through cycles of design, implementation, and reflection.
- Learners construct new knowledge by persisting through self-directed pursuits by tinkering and making.
NGSS:
- Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
- Develop a simple sketch, drawing, or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.
ALSO ADDRESSES ISTE STANDARDS