Introducing Click2Engeering.org

April 21, 2022

By Dr. Rebecca Swanson

STEM Specialist

We are excited to share our newest Click2SciencePD website, Click2Engineering, with you! Click2Engineering offers free professional learning resources to help afterschool and other out-of-school-time educators learn more about engineering and to lead great engineering activities with youth.

 

Want to learn more about teaching engineering?

Are you a new-to-engineering educator or an experienced educator who wants to learn more about engineering? Check out the Practices for an Engineering Mindset. Here, you’ll find Learning Blasts – short video modules designed to introduce you to one of the engineering practices, and to help you see how you might already be engaging in this practice with your youth or to help you plan to do so in the future. Learning Blasts are self-paced, free, and accessible any time, and they’ll take less than 30 minutes to complete. Currently we have three Learning Blasts available, with more coming soon: Use an Engineering Design Process, Explore Materials, and Persist and Learn from Failure.

Need Engineering Activity Ideas?

Are you looking for inspiration or ideas for engineering activities for youth? Check out our Learning Activities where you’ll find some of our favorite engineering activity guides. You’ll also find links to other engineering activity ideas, like Novel Engineering from our partners at the Center for Engineering Outreach and Education at Tufts University ­– integrating literacy and engineering!

Looking for ways to help your staff grow as educators?

If you’re looking for ways to support your educators, or you’re an educator who wants to improve your teaching practices, you can find resources on Training Staff.  For example, you can find a variety of resources here about providing equitable and inclusive learning spaces.

Coming soon…

Over the next year, we’ll be designing Learning Blasts for all of the practices for an engineering mindset, as well as offering webinars and an interactive, synchronous virtual community of practice.  Sign up for the Click2Engineering newsletter at the bottom of the page.  Have an idea or request for a future blog topic?  Email us your ideas!