Overview


 * Engineering 4 Kids (e4k)** - a kid-friendly exploration of everything engineering as a collection of stories about people, places and things, design challenges, projects, games - all yours to discover

[|engineering4kids.org] - domain name, blog [|Collection] - stories, wiki, web service [|WikiSpaces]

Audience : Middle school, self-directed
 * Most teachers have little or no background in Engineering, no time and no support so the E in STeM is “silent”. We are here to help. We are building a collection of stories, resources and activities for kids to discover Engineering on their own.

Stories - some examples of the broad range of topics included
 * structures - Statue of Liberty, Golden Gate Bridge, Costa Concordia
 * objects - Industrial robots, Paper planes, Gears
 * technologies - Raspberry Pi, Renewable energy, Materials
 * people - Henry Ford, People
 * engineering ideas - Simple machines, Aerodynamics, Momentum, Buoyancy
 * society - Go Green, Assistive technologies, Food
 * tools, skills - Programming, Games and simulations

Feedback, suggestions on... > **Ask** (What? Ask questions, understand the need, identify the problem, define) * **Imagine** (So what? Imagine, brainstorm, explore, discover) * **Plan** (Now what? Plan, design) * **Create** (Do it. Create, try it out) * **Improve** (If this then what? Improve, make it better)
 * [|story layout] - template - order, coverage good
 * introduction - keywords, definitions, links to more comprehensive content, picture, illustration, people
 * **What's the problem?** - engineering design process - prompts and questions, facts and questions - Statue of Liberty
 * **That's engineering** * **Engineering ideas** - connecting to engineering thinking, systems, components
 * Do it - activities that kids can do on their own, online games, simulations, hands-on with no / minimum supervision
 * News, updates, Learn more... - more links to related online resources, additions to basic content
 * ..r0 work in progress - outline and some information, but needs work - Computer Aided Engineering, Nuclear, Pacemaker - fine as placeholder - may actually be enough information, even if not complete
 * tags - categories, number per story

Who...
 * advisory board - kids - what works, what's missing - story format, sections, content areas, navigation, classification
 * reviewers - check stories - complete, interesting, identify missing items
 * engineers - reviews, advise, suggest - subject matter experts, what's the engineering here?
 * contributors - research - information, activities, pictures, videos. suggest additional stories, topics
 * authors - edit existing stories, write new stories
 * media - pictures, animations, video - [|Wikimedia Commons], [|Flickr BY.NC.SA], YouTube, Vimeo
 * curators - manage collection

Resources - sources of content for additional stories
 * [|engineering news magazine] - weekly updates, aggregates multiple sources
 * [|ideas for e4k stories] - suggest basis for additional stories, this list is updated periodically
 * [|Wikipedia for Schools] - selection of articles from Wikipedia used by school children around the world. 6000 articles, 26 million words and 50,000 images

About e4k
 * work in progress, always CBB (could be better)
 * doing, thinking, asking - engineering, applied math and science
 * kid-friendly sources, open, ever-green, updates, mostly links to other sources with summary, description
 * Creative Commons - BY-SA-NC - Attribution, Share-Alike, Non-Commercial - all e4k, most (but not all) sources, too
 * contributors - kids, engineers, educators, parents, global community