Inside this issue: new videos offer "moment of STEM"; get our handy CCSS alignment guides; keep an engineering notebook; Mathworks grant!
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EiE News — July 2016
MathWorks Grant Brings EiE to MA Districts
A grant from the Natick-based software company MathWorks to the Museum of Science, Boston will bring Engineering is Elementary to elementary students in three Massachusetts school districts. Two dozen elementary teachers from Haverhill, Brockton, and Lowell will attend an EiE workshop on August 9th at the Museum and receive EiE materials for their classrooms. Although this scholarship program is new, MathWorks has been a Museum supporter since 1991.
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sample of engineering notebook page
Engineering Notebooks Scaffold Learning
Keeping an “engineering notebook” brings several benefits for students. That’s one new finding from E4, EiE’s NSF-funded, large-scale curriculum efficacy study.  EiE researcher Jonathan Hertel presented research on notebooking on June 27th at the annual American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) conference.
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New Videos Capture Key Moments in the Engineering Classroom
Here at EiE we're always working to expand our catalog of professional development resources for K-12 teachers of engineering. This month we're pleased to announce a new collection of short videos. EiE "Engineering Moments" take you inside elementary classrooms where kids are engineering, using narration and animations to set a context for the action that unfolds. BROWSE THE COLLECTION!
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Explore Clocks and Timers with New OST Unit
Here’s a STEM activity for your summer program that’s literally timely! It’s About Time, the newest offering from our out-of-school-time curriculum Engineering Everywhere (EE), explores the history of clocks and timers and challenges middle schoolers to design and build their own timekeeping devices. 
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illustration from cover of It's About Time
Teacher Tip: Meet Common Core Standards with EiE
Do you teach in DC or one of the 46 states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics and English Language Arts? Classroom engineering is an engaging and effective way to meet these standards! Let us show you how EiE connects to CCSS with our convenient Alignment Guides.
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