Technology Education Workshops
Designed by Teachers for Teachers

CEE provides training workshops for public and private schools, home schooling associations, and public and private organizations.

Workshops may be scheduled for full days, half days, after school, or weekends. CEE can plan a series of workshops to help you implement Children's Engineering in your educational setting.

 Workshops

• Explore the meaning of technology.
• Integrate technology education into existing curriculum.
• Provide experience with hands-on designing, building, and problem solving activities.
• Investigate the design loop as a problem solving process.
• Include take home materials to help participants integrate children's engineering into their educational setting.
• Support local, state, and national core curriculum standards.
• Support the Standards for Technological Literacy.

Workshops are tailored to your needs!

Sample Workshop Topics
Check the CEE Calendar for more workshop topics.

• Introduction to Children's Engineering
• Simple Beginnings
• Integrating Children's Engineering Into Everyday Lessons
• Card Engineering
• Exploring Structures
• Simple Motion & Everyday Design Briefs
• Making Things Work
• Integrating Critical and Creative Thinking with Everyday Lessons
• Using Engineering Activities as a Method of Differentiating Instruction

Sample General Workshop Descriptions

Integrating Children’s Engineering Into Everyday Lessons
Children’s Engineering can enhance your daily instruction without being an add-on. We’ll help you develop the skills you need to create design briefs that integrate children’s engineering into what you already teach. Leave the two-day in-service with hands-on experiences that you can relate directly to your classroom.

Introduction to Children's Engineering
This workshop is a general introduction for adults new to design and technology exploring the meaning of technology and investigating the design loop as a problem solving process. The workshop provides experience with hands-on designing, building, and problem solving activities and demonstrates how easy it is to integrate Children's Engineering into the existing curriculum as a method for increasing the mastery of state standards.

"This workshop was very beneficial and practical. The activities were quite useful" -Teacher, Richmond City Schools

Card Engineering
Learn how card engineering can become part of the curriculum you already have in place. Discover movement and motion using levers and linkages. Build a variety of models and see how Card Engineering can add fun to what you are already doing to implement state and national standards.

"Card Engineering is great to use across all subject areas!" -Teacher, Arlington City Schools

"This fits beautifully with Understanding by Design - assessment goals, etc. super means to integrate multiple intelligences and ways to help retain learning." -Teacher, Arlington City Schools

Exploring Structures
Structures are everywhere in our environment. From shelters to towers to milk cartons, they play an important part in everyday life. Choose a focus for your workshop: sheltering structures, containing structures, supporting structures, transporting structures, or directing structures and let us do the rest.

"I had no idea of the catagories [of structures]! Thank you!!" -Teacher, Arlington City Schools, Virginia

"She had la lot of good ideas." -Teacher, Arlington City Schools, Virginia

Making Things Work
A quick review of simple machines leads into exploring how things work. Choose a focus on levers, wheels & axles, gears, pulleys, and or cranks. Learn how to integrate these mechanisms into the curriculum you are currently teaching.

Energy FUNdamentals
Energy is a basic part of everyday life. This workshop will provide adults the background knowledge and hands-on activities they need to help students apply this area of science. Choose a focus on electricity, hydraulics, and /or pneumatics and CEE will plan a professional development appropriate for your educational setting. Learn how to control energy, design and build systems that control energy and understand how to relate energy to your core curriculum areas.

Using Children's Engineering Activities as a Method of Differentiating Instruction
Differentiating Instruction requires teachers to challenge and engage each student at their individual academic level while helping them progress to higher levels of achievement. Children's Engineering can be the vehicle to achieve differentiated instruction without creating individual lesson plans.

"Thanks-this was such a fun way to learn. I can't wait to try t with my students."
"Thought the workshop was great!! Plan to share ideas with my children's school."
"Thank you! Good ideas from other teachers!"
"This was a great workshop. I enjoyed seeing all of the different projects I can do with the kids.

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Highlighting the T & E in STEM Education

Everyday STEM
A Children's Engineering Professional Development Series

COMING SOON!

A Professional Development Series for Integrating STEM, especially Technology &Engineering, into the elementary classroom -

• Developed by elementary educators – for PK-5 elementary educators
• Contains content that has helped hundreds of in-service elementary teachers in Virginia and other states
• Promotes 21st-century skills through technology and engineering education
• Provides teachers the background to teach technology and engineering in an integrated approach – not as an additional subject area
• Provides facilitators tools for supplying meaningful in-service programs – making direct connections between technology and engineering and what teachers are doing in their classrooms.

The series provides facilitators detailed professional development plans, including everything needed to conduct an in-service workshop for elementary educators.

Units are purchased individually to meet the needs of each school. Most units are designed to be implemented as 90 minute workshops. Units include such items as

• Facilitator Plans
• Presentation Slides and Presentation Guide
• Classroom Resources (Posters, Big Books, Sample Lesson Plans, Topic Card Sorts, and Language Arts Connections)
  
  

Children's Engineering Educators, LLC

Children's Engineering:
A Handbook for Elementary Educators

Written by elementary teachers, this guide helps you include basic engineering concepts in the elementary classroom. It describes the benefits of teaching engineering, suggests how to implement engineering for younger students, and details the design process. Includes detailed teacher procedures, reproducible student pages, and national standards addressed.

by Ginger Whiting & Marcia Hickey

 

Children's Engineering:
Beyond the Basics

A follow-up to Children’s Engineering: A Handbook for Elementary Educators, this guide helps elementary educators recognize the technology already in their curriculum and introduces Standards for Technological Literacy (ITEEA 2000/2002/2007) and K-5 Benchmarks. Plus, it includes 12 ready-to-use activities that can tie into other studies.

by Ginger Whiting & Marcia Hickey

Children's Engineering:
Technology Design Loop Poster

A great compliment to the Children’s Engineering books above, this laminated poster brings the five-step Technology Design Loop used in both books into full view for your students.

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