About EiE in Ohio
The National Center for Manufacturing Education (NCME) at Sinclair Community College in Dayton is helping to bring a new national Engineering is Elementary (EiE) curriculum to Ohio. To facilitate teacher training in the EiE methods, the NCME will serve as the host for Teacher Education Institutes, which are one and a half day hands-on workshops serving Ohio elementary teachers.
Engineering is Elementary is a storybook-based curriculum designed to foster engineering and technological literacy among children. EiE consists of research-based, standards-based, and classroom-tested activities that integrate engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics. EiE materials also relate to literacy, social studies, and mathematics. Through a variety of engineering design challenges, children apply their knowledge of science and engineering, as well as their problem solving skills, as they design, create, and improve possible solutions.
In May, the first training workshop was provided for Stark County educators to support them in implementing the EiE program in their schools as part of an Ohio Partnership for Continued Learning grant. The workshop was facilitated by trainers from the Educational Service Centers in Montgomery and Auglaize Counties. The Stark County educators are now in a position to provide teacher training for seventeen local school districts served by the Stark County Educational Service Center.
Initial funding to bring this initiative to Ohio from the Boston Museum of Science was provided by the NCME, a National Science Foundation Advanced Technological Education center.
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