Feats and Flops: A Creative Engineering Unit for Advanced and Gifted Students [Paperback]

Make problem solving fun with this award winning, research-based curriculum unit!

Designed to meet the needs of gifted students in grades 6 and up, this book will enable you to expertly guide your students through using the engineering design process, SCAMPER, and a new tool called My Makers Map to innovate solutions to both hypothetical and personal situations in their own lives. By the end of the unit, students will have created a working prototype of their design, presented it to a group of judges in a Shark Tank-esque Junior competition, filed a mock patent application, and conceptualized a marketing campaign. In addition, students will participate in various problem-based learning tasks and organize a Maker Fair for their school.

Standards aligned and full of tips, handouts, and resources, this ready to use curriculum model requires no additional research or prep work and is a must-have for teachers interested in providing an engaging, differentiated, and hands-on engineering design experience for their students.

1. Focusing on Feats and Flops? 2. Blue Sky Thinking? 3. A Strategy for Sparking Solutions? 4. Creating Curiosity? 5. Mistake to Masterpiece? 6. Mindset Mix-up? 7. Innovations-R-Us? 8. Recording Research? 9. Settling on a Solution? 10. The Customer is Always Right? 11. The Power of Persuasion? 12. 3.S.4.K? 13. Focus Group Feedback? 14. Thinking Like an Engineer? 15. My Maker's Map? 16. Brainstorming Bonanza? 17. Blueprint to Innovation? 18. Delving into the Details? 19. Preparing a Prototype? 20. A Doorbell Surprise? 21. Continuing to Create? 22. Preparing a Presentation? 23. It's Show Time? 24. The Inventor's Oath? 25. Patent Pending? 26. A Preamble to my Patent? 27. Editing an Elevator Speech? 28. Jumping in the Tank? 29. A Survivor's Story? 30. A Legacy in Letters

Make problem solving fun with this award winning, research-based curriculum unit!