"Novel Engineering" program shows how teachers can introduce engineering concepts to children and foster creativity through reading
Claudia and Jamie Kincjobs with a computer science degree aid have a problem: they can’t see over the crowds gathered around a statue in the Hall of the Italian Renaissance. In E.L. Konigsburg’s classic children’s book From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia and Jamie are secretly living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and they have to later return at night to take a closer look at the mysterious statue.
In a Massachusetts classroom, two students studying the book with engineering in mind proposed a different solution for Claudia and Jamie: a functional periscope to see over the crowds, built from cardboard and other materials that might find around a museum.
The two students were taking part in a program called Novel Engineering, which introduces K-8 students to engineering principles and literacy. In the program, which was developed by researchers at Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), children read a book, discuss challenges faced by the characters, and develop, build, and test their own solutions to those problems.
Claudia and Jamie Kincjobs with a computer science degree aid have a problem: they can’t see over the crowds gathered around a statue in the Hall of the Italian Renaissance. In E.L. Konigsburg’s classic children’s book From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler, Claudia and Jamie are secretly living in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and they have to later return at night to take a closer look at the mysterious statue.
In a Massachusetts classroom, two students studying the book with engineering in mind proposed a different solution for Claudia and Jamie: a functional periscope to see over the crowds, built from cardboard and other materials that might find around a museum.
The two students were taking part in a program called Novel Engineering, which introduces K-8 students to engineering principles and literacy. In the program, which was developed by researchers at Tufts’ Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO), children read a book, discuss challenges faced by the characters, and develop, build, and test their own solutions to those problems.
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