A Survey Tool to Get Kids Thinking about Engineering

engineering-cool-550Engineering may sound pretty boring to your typical tween or teen. Do you ever talk to your students about STEM careers in engineering? We really can’t expect them to appreciate all the creative possibilities without some “awareness raising.”

Visit this post at my MiddleWeb blog – Could Engineering Be the Coolest Job Ever? – to read some language I’ve used with students and in my writing over the years. It’s language we might use to interest students in researching the many exciting job prospects in STEM-related fields.

Need something quick? Here’s a student survey I’ve put together – the Engineering Interest Check-up. You could use it with some ideas from my MiddleWeb post or as a stand-alone. It’s a 3-minute, one page student awareness survey. Click to download the PDF.

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Anne Jolly

Anne Jolly began her career as a lab scientist, caught the science teaching bug, and was recognized as an Alabama Teacher of the Year during her time as a middle grades science teacher. From 2007-2014 Anne was part of an NSF-funded team that developed middle grades STEM curriculum modules and teacher PD materials for the Mobile Area Education Foundation's Engaging Youth through Engineering initiative. In 2020-2021 Anne teamed to develop a middle school STEM workforce curriculum for Flight Works Alabama. Her book STEM By Design: Tools and Strategies to Help Students in Grades 4-8 Solve Real World Problems is published by Routledge/MiddleWeb.

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