Young Engineers

Dream, draw, design, make:- From STEM to STEAM in early years’ education
Andrew King and Sue Lewin

DATE:
TIME: 4pm afternoon tea 4:30 to 6pm workshop.
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AIMS:
1.To introduce engineering (the E in STEM) and to help integrate it into the early years’ setting.
2.To highlight links between engineering the arts; visual arts, also story-telling, books, and music (the E&A in STEAM).
3.To explore engineering design processes to facilitate educators to build on this and be able to work on designing, drawing, implementing, and documenting engineering projects with children.
4. Empowering educators to plan and facilitate an engineering project with groups of children preparing, dreaming, drawing, designing, and implementing:- suggested topic for the modeling workshop- Robots.

Resource:- Young engineers Picture book and Young engineers- projects.

Pre-preparation:- educators to begin collecting cardboard, boxes, foil, robot-type accessories e.g. pipes, tubes, etc. to bring to share in workshop.

Contact Kim for more details on 0418157280 or ectacooloolarg@gmail.com