By Amanda Amburgey M.A, Maker Science Teacher, Bulldog Tech What is going on in this classroom? There are kids everywhere excitedly making, testing, remaking, retesting, hot gluing, hammering, there is so much duct tape! This is what engineering looks like in a middle school science class. This is excited, meaningful learning. How did I get to this place where I feel comfortable facilitating such an active engineering process with my classes? As a science teacher I have had practice with hands on, inquiry based labs, technology and math makes their way into those labs easily. But, engineering had me stumped. How was I going to be an effective engineering teacher as required with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) when I knew so little about engineering? This is where RAFT and their STEM workshops really saved me and gave me the courage to start engineering projects. I started with a somewhat common misconception of what engineers do. I thought engine
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