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Three Brief Engineering Examples for ELA

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Three Brief Engineering Examples for ELA

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Engage students in building models or structures that represent settings or concepts from novels, like designing a sustainable home for a character.

Students can design and build sets for dramatic productions of literary works, considering the practical and aesthetic aspects of the design.

Students could create literary theme installations using LEDs, sensors, or sound triggers. The AI tool gave the example of using the novel Fahrenheit 451 and creating a "censorship detector" that lights up when someone says "banned words". (Thanks to classmate Erin Connolly for mentioning this during our discussion on Pi-Top.)

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As an 11th grade English And Language Arts educator, I am not in possession of a strong Science and Math mind. One of the classes I teach is AP English Language and Composition with a student population that is often also enrolled in AP Calculus, AP Physics, and AP Computer Science. I am in awe of what they are capable of at their age. So, when some of them tell me they want pursue 'Engineering' in college, I'm not sure I even know what that means. Now, I'm exaggerating a bit, but if I had to pick a letter that I haven't ever really tried to bring into the ELA classroom, it would be the letter E for Engineering.

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A student model of Shakespeare's Globe Theater

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So, how in the world does Engineering fit in a English Language Arts classroom? Should it fit? In my English Department there are some teachers who embrace integrating tech and hands-on type projects and some who believe we should be the one place where students still read and write as much as possible. I fall somewhere in the middle. Obviously, I use technology frequently - Chromebooks, smartboards, Flipgrid, Adobe, etc, but I am often hesitant to take days off for "projects." Engineering projects? In ELA? Never! Maybe, it was something ingrained in me from early in my career where I had a few admins who frowned on anything that wasn't "preparing them for the Regents exam." However, looking through articles, resources, and the posts of our classmates I have seen that there is a place for more hands-on, collaborative work in ELA. So, Engineering? Yes! Let's make models of stage sets, visually represent characters, create a light show for a stage, and more.

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Design a tiny house for a literary character. Maybe, we can use LEGOs!

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STEM in English Language Arts Class - Building Book Love

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It wasn’t until my Assistant Director of Schools tweeted a picture I sent out with the caption, “Mrs. Bible using STEM in ELA,” that I realized I was even doing STEM at all. I just thought I was doing a really fun tiny house project! Ha! After that, I was all like: If this is STEM, ... Read More abo…

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Scroll through for ways to engage students in the ELA materials they are reading and connect them to the real world through engineering.

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Teaching ELA Subjects Through a STEAM Mindset – Sphero

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Taking an interdisciplinary approach to education that integrates the STEAM mindset into ELA lessons is a great way for educators to encourage skills like problem solving, critical thinking, and creativity.

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How English Teachers Can Utilize STEAM in their Classrooms | Resilient Educator

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The advent and expansion of STEAM doesn’t mean a movement away from language arts. On the contrary, scientists, engineers, technologists, artists, and

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Helping Students and Teachers Embrace Engineering

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By Reid Whitaker - Here are five ways to help students — and teachers — overcome a fear of failure and learn to love engineering design.