Keeping the Group Focused
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:
- What attention-grabbing strategies did you see the staff using in this video?
- What positive statements did staff use that kept youth together and engaged?
- If you were leading this activity, what would you do differently? What would you do the same?
Now that you’ve watched the video, reflect on what you saw and post your responses.
- What strategies do you use in your program to keep youth together when doing a group activity?
- How did youth respond to the strategies used?
- Why is it important to encourage youth to work together when doing STEM?
Explore Engineering Practices
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Affirming Youth During Retesting
Watch as staff encourage youth to investigate how they designed their package, what did or didn’t work with their design, and how they might adapt for re-testing. Staff support youth’s abilities and encourage youth to work with their team and develop their own solutions for re-testing their designs.
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Designing Unique Balloon-Powered Vehicles
Engineers think innovatively to envision multiple possible solutions to open-ended problems. Youth apply this practice as they design unique balloon-powered vehicles.
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Where Are You Stuck?
Notice how the facilitator nudges learners to find their own solutions as they create the algorithms that control their agents in the virtual world.