EiE's monthly newsletter for December 2016 features new Snippets and Classroom Videos, STEAM and theater, and much more!
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EiE News — December 2016
Announcing New Snippets and Classroom Videos
We’re happy to announce 14 new snippets and 2 new classroom videos featuring the units A Sticky Situation: Designing Walls and Now You’re Cooking: Designing Solar Ovens. 
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STEAM and Theater: An Enlightening Combination
When theater and STEAM enthusiast Wendi Laurence attended an EiE Teacher Educator Institute and found EiE's Lighten Up unit, she knew that it would be a blockbuster success in the Egyptian Theatre’s YouTheatre STEAM program. Check out her amazing story!
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Investigating Materials Properties is an Engineering Habit of Mind

At EiE, we believe that a well-designed engineering curriculum can help students develop as many as 16 unique engineering habits of mind. Investigating the properties and uses of materials is a habit of mind that is an essential foundation to engineering education—it allows students to make informed decisions as they plan, create, and improve their technologies.

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How EiE Works for Gifted and Talented Populations
At the National Association for Gifted Children’s 2016 conference, EiE’s Chris San Antonio-Tunis presented his preliminary research about EiE’s impact on gifted and talented populations to a standing-room-only crowd. He shared a few reasons why real teachers from around the country love using EiE in their gifted and talented classrooms.
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Helping a Boy in Haiti: Engineering Makes Real-World Connections

When Camie Walker chose an EiE activity for her fifth-grade classroom two years ago, she was thinking about how the lessons would complement her plans for English Language Arts instruction. She never expected that the real-world engineering design challenge would help her students become more resilient in the face of failure . . . or move them to meaningful social action on behalf of a young boy left destitute by a natural disaster.

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