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Engineering Is Elementary: An Engineering And Technology Curriculum For Children

Kate Hester, Christine M. Cunningham

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Abstract

As our society becomes increasingly dependent on engineering and technology, it is more important than ever that everyone have a basic understanding of what engineers do, and the uses and implications of the technologies they create. Yet few citizens are technologically literate, in large part because technology and engineering are not taught in our schools 1 .

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CurriculumEngineering educationComputer scienceMathematics educationEngineeringEngineering managementPedagogyPsychologyEngineering Education and PedagogyEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentBiomedical and Engineering Education