Blog #12 Teach Engineering

 

Teach Engineering 

Teach Engineering is a website that provides guidance and access to many free STEM lesson plans for grades kindergarten to 12th grade. These lessons align with common core standards and the NGSS standards with a DCI, cross Cutting concept, and Science and Engineering practice. It also contains the integrated standards for math as well. It provides premade lessons, connected Units, stand-alone activities. Each lesson plan comes with all of the materials, the handouts, the directions, integrated videos, and the research used to back up their lesson material. I found this website as I was creating a natural resource portfolio for my science capstone. 

Eaze of Use / Versatility 

It is very simple to explore as each lesson can be searched for in the search engine or on the left top side where you can search it based on certain requirements. You can use topics, grades, types of lessons, and what kind of standard it contains. Once you find one you like you can easily download it and access all of the links for free. It can be used to help you integrate subjects like math and science to enhance students learning. 

Experience

I recently stumbled across this helpful website as I was creating a science portfolio and loved how easy it was to access and the rich strategies and content it has in each lesson all laid out for teachers to put into practice. I actually borrowed an activity where students were to create a model water wheel and it was a hit. In the future, I will definitely take advantage of the accessibility of a tool like this. 

Connections to the Course

This technology tool is perfect for the Teaching part of the TLC framework in our class. It falls under the Planning instruction part because it guides and provides a pre-planned lesson plan for you to teach your students. 

Sites Used: STEM curriculum for K-12 - TeachEngineering