Learning To Fail
As you watch the video:
- Notice how the facilitators respond when the machines don’t work.
- Listen for strategies you can use to help youth learn from failure.
- Look for strategies that encourage perseverance.
Now that you’ve watched the video, reflect on what you saw.
- What strategies would you like to use to encourage youth learn failure?
- What strategies would you like to use to encourage perseverance?
Explore Engineering Practices
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Like A Real Engineer!
What happens when youth challenge a group of engineers to complete the STEM activity they did in their program? Listen as the engineers go through the same problem solving steps and align real-world engineering strategies to the challenge they have in building and designing vehicles.
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Making Meaning from STEM Learning
To make STEM experiences meaningful, youth need to make the STEM learning personal. Staff use “provocations” and “plussing” to challenge youth to think of new ideas based on what they have discovered while creating an object that can fly out of a wind tunnel.
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Balance Criteria and Constraints that Require Trade-offs
Engineers make trade-offs to balance competing factors as they solve problems. As youth create enrichment toys for zoo animals, they balance the animals’ safety with keeping them engaged.