Affirming Youth During Retesting
Watch the activity overview video. This video shows staff facilitating the activity featured in the skill video.
As you watch the skill video below, think about these questions:
- How do staff help prepare youth to re-test their designs?
- What do staff do to support youth after their design failed?
- What are other strategies to help youth feel comfortable with failure as part of the learning process?
Now that you’ve watched the video, reflect on what you saw and post your responses.
- What practices in the engineering design process did you see modeled in this video?
- How can you help youth deal with and learn from failure?
Explore Engineering Practices
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Connecting Real-World Skills to Career Roles
Dagen connects the skills youth use with the career role they selected during the challenge.
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Understanding Your Audience Needs
Watch and listen as Jean discusses the importance of understanding the needs of both your staff and youth when evaluating materials and resources for STEM learning. Pay close to attention to strategies she uses to set everyone up for success.
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Using Museum Experiences to Inform Marble Ramp Design
Youth explore hands-on museum exhibits to learn about force and motion and then apply their scientific knowledge as they engineer their own marble ramps.