Engineering Adventures

October 1st, 2011 - October 1st, 2011 | PROJECT

Engineering Adventures (EA) is a free, hands-on, project-based engineering curriculum designed for out-of-school time (OST) programs serving children in grades 3 to 5. The EA curriculum was developed by Engineering is Elementary® (EiE), a project of the National Center for Technological Literacy® at the Museum of Science, Boston. Each Engineering Adventures (EA) curriculum unit features a hands-on "engineering design challenge" based on real-world events that gives children the opportunity to apply and reinforce the science and engineering practices put forth in the Next Generation Science Standards. Every EA unit focuses on a different field of engineering and features 10-12 hours of activities with flexible scheduling options. EA units area available as FREE DOWNLOADS on the project website.

Project Website(s)

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Project Products

https://eie.org/stem-curricula/engineering-grades-prek-8/engineering-adventures
http://eie.org

Team Members

Cynthia Berger, Contact, Museum of Science, Boston

Funders

Funding Source: NASA

Tags

Audience: Educators | Teachers | Elementary School Children (6-10) | Museum | ISE Professionals
Discipline: Engineering | Life science | Physics | Space science
Resource Type: Project Descriptions
Environment Type: Afterschool Programs | Museum and Science Center Programs | Public Programs