Teaching Engineering as a Vehicle for Math and
Science Integration
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Engineering student leads youngsters in a hands-on project building
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Engineering integrates math and science concepts in a real-world
context, and our faculty and graduate students have developed dozens
of curriculum plans that excite students and meet state standards
in math, science and technology. The College of Engineering and Applied
Science can help you to enrich your math and science courses.
Professional Development Workshops
Our Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory offers a
variety of Teacher
Workshops that will prepare you to teach an age-appropriate
engineering curriculum -- and give you lots of hands-on activities
to take back to your classroom.
Engineering Students in the Classroom
An Engineering
Outreach Corps, comprised of upper-class engineering undergraduates,
partners with teachers in local schools to further introduce engineering
as a potential career choice to students. CU engineering students
have served as teaching assistants in K-12 schools under the NSF
Teaching Fellows Program since 1999, reaching more than 5,000 Colorado
students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Tours for You and Your Class
The Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory is open for
school group tours. Kids will love the interactive exhibits, which
teach
engineering concepts in fun and unusual ways. Visit ITLL to learn more about this outstanding facility.
The Colorado
Space Grant Consortium also works with teachers, provides
classroom speakers and offers tours as part of its mission to extend
space education to students throughout Colorado.
Online Resources
CU-Boulder is leading a team of engineering schools in developing
a web-based digital library of standards-based K-12 curricula for
use by K-12 teachers. The
TeachEngineering
digital library is searchable by school
subject, grade level, key words, standards, activity or lesson.
Other CU Resources
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