Novel Engineering: Students Offer Solutions for Peter in <em>The Snowy Day</em>

Authors

  • Kristin Hancock

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5860/cal.16.3.22

Abstract

A good book lets us imagine ourselves in the story— befriend the main character, explore the setting, and consider what we would do in any given event. Novel engineering brings imagination to life by giving students the opportunity to identify a problem in the story and design a solution using everyday objects. It was this very concept that brought together an unlikely collaboration between myself, a language arts teacher, and my colleague at Crestview Middle School in Ellisville, Missouri, math teacher Liz Buesteton.

Author Biography

Kristin Hancock

Kristin Hancock teaches eighth grade language arts at Crestview Middle School in Ellisville, Missouri. She and her colleague Liz Buesteton received a mini-grant from the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation to implement novel engineering.

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Published

2018-09-24

Issue

Vol. 16 No. 3 (2018): Fall

Section

Features

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