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Engineering Education Resources for Educators

The resources on LEARN @ Tufts CEEO are grounded in decades of engineering education research conducted by CEEO faculty, researchers, and staff in collaboration and co-design with educators and practitioners. Many of the activities, tools, and curriculum materials hosted here were developed through rigorous, peer-reviewed projects funded by the National Science Foundation, meaning they weren't just designed to be useful in classrooms, they were tested there. As an educator, you can feel confident that what you find here has been developed by experts and tried out with real students.

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Novel Engineering Microcredential

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Custom Introducing Engineering in K-8 Settings PD

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The image is an educational placemat titled "Pocket Panpipe" from Tufts School of Engineering, featuring prompts and photos to guide students in designing a panpipe instrument that plays at least three notes using materials like plastic tubes, bamboo, and test tubes.

Music Engineering Activity Placemats

Three music engineering activities - build a pocket panpipe, an electric guitar, and a speaker.

A colorful LEGO robot with articulated arms and legs stands on a white baseplate; its circular head features yellow and blue accents.

Engineering with Bricks

Engineering with Bricks is a curation of resources for LEGO® Education robotics platforms, including those created by CEEO.

A colorful graphic with the word "Design" in large blue letters, surrounded by speech bubbles featuring "talks" and design topics like "PROBLEM-SCOPING," "DESIGN SYNTHESIS," "IMPACT," "IDEA GENERATION," and "DESIGN IN PROGRESS."

Design Talks

A resource for teachers to facilitate whole-class discussions about engineering design activities.

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Constructopedia

The Constructopedia is a building guide for common mechanisms, like pulleys and hinges, that uses craft and recycled materials.

The image shows five colorful, cube-shaped electronic devices with screens, knobs, and large buttons, arranged in a row. The devices are yellow, purple, pink (tilted), green, and blue.

Smart Motors

Smart Motors are trainable standalone robotics system that lower the barriers to entry into robotics as well as provide avenue for richer explorations.

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Accessible Playground Design

Curriculum for 3rd grade students explore core ideas of balanced and unbalanced forces, changes in motion, and interactions between magnets.

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Introducing Engineering in K-8 Settings

Introducing Engineering to K-8 Students will provide you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom.

The image is the cover of the book "Novel Engineering, K–8: An Integrated Approach to Engineering and Literacy," featuring illustrations of educational and engineering items like a rocket, telescope, gears, microscope, backpack, book, and two children reading. The authors are Elissa Milto, Merredith Portsmore, Jessica Watkins, Mary McCormick, and Morgan Hynes, and it is published by NSTA Press.

Novel Engineering Book

Novel Engineering will both introduce your students to an exciting integrated curriculum and support you as you use it in your own elementary or middle school classroom.

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