Novel Engineering Challenge!

What does literacy and the Engineering Design Process have in common? More than you would think! Engineering Design is the cornerstone of STEM. Integrate this with literacy and you have the perfect combination for engagement. This is the premise of Novel Engineering: Use existing classroom literature as the basis for engineering design challenges. As students read, they identify problems in the story and design realistic solutions.

For curriculum review, two teachers from each grade level, K-5, will work together to design Novel Engineering experiences for shared and interactive books in Bookworms. Each grade level team will:

• Use the shared and interactive books to identify possible Novel Engineering challenges.
• Make a list of materials needed for the challenge. These will need to be materials found easily in a classroom.
• Find as many cross curricular connections as possible.
• Create a lesson document that will be saved in a Canvas course. Over the summer, the curriculum team will work to put these lessons in the ELA canvas courses that are pushed out to teachers.

Good one for explaining Novel Engineering to Others!!

This was a presentation created by Brittani Crocker from KSU iTeach for the TLC group this past year. Some of the resources above are referenced, but this gives a great overview of Novel Engineering and can be another resource as you plan.

Solve Problems: Be an Engineer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9I35Rqo04E&list=PLlpwfqo3dDFiPIOFngiF-5wDN21kIUwMG

What is an engineer? Crash Course Kids #12.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owHF9iLyxic&list=PLlpwfqo3dDFiPIOFngiF-5wDN21kIUwMG&index=2

A Case of "What-Ifs": Crash Course Kids #29.1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GaKPMlkdO4&list=PLlpwfqo3dDFiPIOFngiF-5wDN21kIUwMG&index=3

The Engineering Process: Crash Course Kids #12.2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJWin195kU&list=PLlpwfqo3dDFiPIOFngiF-5wDN21kIUwMG&index=4

The Engineering Design Process: A Taco Party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAhpfFt_mWM&list=PLlpwfqo3dDFiPIOFngiF-5wDN21kIUwMG&index=6

Jess Has a Problem!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM04n0-QtNo&list=PLlpwfqo3dDFiPIOFngiF-5wDN21kIUwMG&index=6&t=0s

The resources below are updated with Bookworms alignment to science and social studies. If you do not see your grade level, please look at the book lists and your curriculum map to find possible alignments OR books that will fit the Novel Engineering format.