Design Talks are whole-class discussions that teachers facilitate with pre-college students. As supplements to engineering design activities, these conversations help students share and listen to thinking about design problems and solutions. Through Design Talks, teachers can support students not just to construct their designs, but also to construct knowledge about how their designs work in the world. The website, built in collaboration with Vanderbilt University, describes different genres of Design Talks and shares video examples from 1st through 6th-grade classrooms.
