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Teachers Institute II: Your Facilitators

This document provides an outline and agenda for a Teachers Institute on engineering concepts. Over the course of the weeklong institute, teachers will learn about design, buoyancy, heat transfer, physics, and bridge design. They will work with local engineers to incorporate what they learned into their own lesson plans. The goal of the institute is to help teachers present more engineering concepts in K-12 classrooms to expand the pool of students interested in engineering.

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Teachers Institute II: Your Facilitators

This document provides an outline and agenda for a Teachers Institute on engineering concepts. Over the course of the weeklong institute, teachers will learn about design, buoyancy, heat transfer, physics, and bridge design. They will work with local engineers to incorporate what they learned into their own lesson plans. The goal of the institute is to help teachers present more engineering concepts in K-12 classrooms to expand the pool of students interested in engineering.

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Teachers Institute II

Your Facilitators: Beth Eschenbach, Ph.D.* Jim Zoellick + Erin Cearley*# Lonny Grafman* Andrea Allen*+ Steven Medina*

Assessment: Brandie Wilson, M.A.


Environmental Resources Engineering* Schatz Energy Research Center+ Redwood Sciences Project#

Outline for the Week


Monday What is Design? Buoyancy and Heat Transfer Penny Boats & Save the Penguins Tues. & Wednesday Chemistry, Design and Hydrogen Fuel Cells Thursday & Friday Physics - Bridge Design Thursday Afternoon & Dinner (4-7) Work with local engineers to incorporate engineering into your own lesson plans

Outline for the Day


Check In Pre Assessment Why are we here? Introductions & Expectations Buoyancy Design Problem Break What is Design Thurs. Assignment Lunch Heat-Transfer: Save the Penguins Teamwork Discussion How to use curriculum in your class? Post-Assessment Minute Paper

The Shrinking Pie Only 4% of 9th graders graduate in S&E

Up to 60% lost in college


32% CCC transfers

from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology

Californias racial diversification 2006-2020 projection


Asian 12.1%
A sian 12.5%

Hispanic 35.9% Other 9.2%

H ispanic 41.4%

Other 8.7%

White 37.4%

White 42.8%

2006
Source: Department of Finance.

2020
from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology

Failure to achieve in education will have economic consequences


from Susan Hackwood, Board member of California Council on Science and Technology

Projected Change in Personal Income per Capita by State, 2000-2020 Source: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems (2005)

The future of engineering depends on preparedness and interest of school children. We all must play a greater role in developing the future engineering student. We need more better prepared K-12 STEM teachers.
National effort to market and brand engineering so students, teachers and parents will know what engineering is.

Rather than focus on skills in math and science, we need to convey the excitement and impact of engineering.

Engineers Shape Essential Engineering Is The Future! Engineers Are Creative Problem Solvers! Engineers Make A World Of Difference! To Our Health, Happiness and Safety!

Summer 2007 - CSU Deans of Engineering request funding for CSU Engineering Academies to recruit (and retain) a larger and more diverse pool of engineering students. Dec. 2007 - Proposal to Bring 20,000 New Engineers to Californias Workforce by 2014

Source: http://gov.ca.gov/about/arnold

Project Goal
to facilitate the presentation of more

engineering concepts in our regions K-12


classrooms

in order to expand and diversify


the pool of incoming students who are well prepared and eager to enter as engineering majors.

Source: http://www.calstate.edu/college/map.shtml

The Design Your Future: North Coast Engineering Academies has three components:
1.Teacher Professional Development

2. Co-Curricular offering of ENGR 215 Introduction to Design

3. Community Building: Teachers, Students, Parents & Engineers. Students, & Engineers.

Thank you to Principal Jennifer Lane, Teacher Forrest Stamper and the Hoopa Valley High School ENGR 215 class for trying our pilot course.

Name Game
First person to learn everyones name in the room will get a $20 certificate to the HSU bookstore.

DYF Teacher Institute Introductions & Expectations


Please state your name, what you are teaching this fall, and

what you are hoping to get our of our


institute this week.

Relationship between STEM Disciplines


Seek to understand the natural world

Math and Science

Engineering

Design products and processes to meet needs and solve problems

Systems of products and processes

Technology

built from engineering designs

Adapted from Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework, October 2006, page 81. by Richards, Schnittka & Donohue, ASEE 2009

The engineering design process provides a framework for inquiry based learning
1. Identify the need or problem

8. Redesign

2. Research the need or problem 3. Develop possible solutions 4. Select the best possible solution(s)

7. Communicate the solutions 6. Test and evaluate 5. Construct a prototype


Massachusetts Science and Technology/Engineering Curriculum Framework, October 2006, page 84. Adapted by Richards, Schnittka & Donohue, ASEE 2009

ETKs (Engineering Teaching Kits) were developed at Univ. of Introduction to ETK Virginia by Senior Engineering Students. ETKs include:
Teachers guide with unit overview Review of relevant concepts Plans for five 50 minute activity periods Assessment instruments You will receive paper & electronic versions of ETKs materials

Today we will consider students misconceptions and take a constructivist approach to learning

Lets try it with buoyancy and Archimedes principle.


A body immersed in a fluid is subject to an upward force equal in magnitude to the weight of the displaced fluid Archimedes supposedly derived this principle from noting that the amount of water spilled from his bath was equal in volume to the submerged part of his body

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buoyancy and http://www.juliantrubin.com/bigten/archimedesprinciple.html adapted by Richards, Schnittka & Donohue, ASEE 2009

More on buoyancy Density Matters!!


Completely submerged objects with equal masses, but different volumes, will experience different buoyant forces.

In a more dense the fluid, the upwards force will be greater because the fluid displaced will weigh more.

Design Objective: Using one piece of foil, design a vessel that will float and carry the highest number of pennies.
You have ____ minutes Work in groups of ____ People Make sure everyone gets to touch

Minute Paper
What is the most important thing you have learned today? What questions do you still have? Feedback

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