Campus Units
Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Education, School of, Mechanical Engineering
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Conference
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
Publication Version
Published Version
Link to Published Version
https://peer.asee.org/27685
Publication Date
6-24-2017
Journal or Book Title
2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
First Page
18659
Conference Date
June 24-28, 2017
City
Columbus, OH
Abstract
Elementary teacher preparation programs are generally tightly packed, with limited room for additional coursework. As states adopt Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS ), the need for teacher education programs to provide meaningful exposure to engineering is growing, and a multitude of approaches can be taken to meet this need. While the topics of engineering and engineering design are typically incorporated into science teaching methods courses, this research presents an alternative approach where we expose elementary pre-service teachers to engineering prior to or concurrently with enrollment in their methods courses. Specifically, we describe here our efforts in building a 12-contact-hour non-credit short course – based upon NGSS-aligned learning outcomes – that was delivered to 10 students in fall 2016. We provide details on our approaches, including examples used in the course, and explain our decision to offer this as a short course instead of a full-semester course. We also report on results from the pre- and post-surveys which we used to assess student learning in the course, and to understand what aspects of the course needed improvement.
Copyright Owner
American Society for Engineering Education
Copyright Date
2017
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Raman, D. Raj; Lamm, Monica H.; Sundararajan, Sriram; Tank, Kristina Maruyama; and Estapa, Anne T., "Baby Steps toward Meeting Engineering-rich Science Standards: Approaches and Results from a Short "What is Engineering?" Course for K-5 Pre-service Teachers (Work in Progress)" (2017). Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Conference Proceedings and Presentations. 532.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/abe_eng_conf/532
Included in
Curriculum and Instruction Commons, Elementary Education Commons, Engineering Education Commons, Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Commons
Comments
This proceeding is published as Raman, D. Raj, Monica H. Lamm, Sriram Sundararajan, Kristina Maruyama Tank, and Anne T. Estapa. Baby Steps toward Meeting Engineering-rich Science Standards: Approaches and Results from a Short "What is Engineering?" Course for K-5 Pre-service Teachers (Work in Progress). In 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. Columbus, OH. June 24-28, 2017 Posted with permission.