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What are the essential questions relating to this topic?
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How does that relate to goals and measurements?
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How can we teach this creatively?
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But what’s missing?
Cyclical nature of the process.
Fundamentally a learning process that uses thinking skills. In
fact, it is a higher order thinking skill.
The Engineering design process touches most learning
disciplines.
Doesn’t simplify
for younger
students
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On the left side, we see the
divergent and convergent thinking happening as many ideas
are created and the reduced base on what will work and meet
the needs.
This creative and critical thinking.
On the right side we see the iterative nature of the
process as things are tried, found to need a change and then
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As an example: Our problem or design
challenge is to find a way to keep the coffee from getting
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