Engineer Your Life (EYL) has FREE resources you can use to spark girls' interest in engineering.
What is EYL?
EYL breaks down stereotypes about engineering and encourages college-bound girls to consider it as a career option.
EngineerYourLife.org features ten great reasons to become an engineer, streaming video of inspiring women engineers, descriptions of dream engineering jobs, and advice for parents, educators, and engineers on how to talk to girls about engineering.
An independent evaluation shows that 78.5% of girls, after exploring the EYL website, listed engineering as their number one career choice.
Use EYL in your classroom:
Share www.EngineerYourLife.org with students, parents, teachers and counselors.
Order FREE brochures/postcards by sending an email to feedback@engineeryourlife.org.
Present EYL videos of inspiring women engineers to students and parents.
Incorporate EYL into your career exploration programs and curricula.
- Mary Schmitz, a geometry teacher in Missouri, gives her students the assignment of researching engineering careers on EYL’s site and posting their favorite on their class wiki. Mary comments:
“I just want to let the girls know what is available to them and maybe open up more opportunities for them. I think your site is wonderful and I get really good responses from my students after they have read about the different fields of engineering.”
Questions about EYL? Contact feedback@engineeryourlife.org with any questions or requests related to EYL.
And for additional classroom resources, check out the Engineering collection on Teachers' Domain.
Thank you!
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
New Educational Games Available at NASA.gov
NASA has introduced four new educational games geared toward students in grades K-8.
Build Your Own Space Mission -- Grades K-2
In this interactive game, students choose a scientist, laboratory, spacecraft and destination as they design their own space mission. After packing the spacecraft into a rocket, they watch it blast off to their destination of choice.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/edu_game/
Astro-Matic 3000 -- Grades K-8
Use the Astro-Matic 3000 to learn how much you would weigh or how old you would be if you lived on another planet. Students also learn facts about each planet.
Astro-Matic 3000 supports the following national education standards and benchmarks:
National Science Education Standards: Objects in the sky.
National Science Education Standards: Earth in the solar system.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standard: Recognize the attributes of length, volume, weight, area and time.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Astro-Matic_3000.html
Let’s Fly Away Airplane Dodecahedron -- Grades K-8
In the interactive version, students click and drag the dodecahedron to see NASA aircraft. They also can read about the aircraft and print full color pictures or a coloring page. In the Build Your Own activity, students print, color and construct their own dodecahedron featuring 12 different NASA aircraft.
Let’s Fly Away supports the following national education standards:
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Identify, compare and analyze attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes and develop vocabulary to describe the attributes.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Describe attributes and parts of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
National Science Education Standards: Science as a human endeavor.
Interactive Dodecahedron http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/clubhouse/Lets_Fly_Away.html
Build Your Own Dodecahedron http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Lets_Fly_Away.html
Put It Together Puzzle -- Grades K-6
In this interactive online game, students build online puzzles of NASA pictures.
Put It Together supports the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standard:
Understand patterns, relations and functions.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Put_It_Together.html
Build Your Own Space Mission -- Grades K-2
In this interactive game, students choose a scientist, laboratory, spacecraft and destination as they design their own space mission. After packing the spacecraft into a rocket, they watch it blast off to their destination of choice.
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/edu_game/
Astro-Matic 3000 -- Grades K-8
Use the Astro-Matic 3000 to learn how much you would weigh or how old you would be if you lived on another planet. Students also learn facts about each planet.
Astro-Matic 3000 supports the following national education standards and benchmarks:
National Science Education Standards: Objects in the sky.
National Science Education Standards: Earth in the solar system.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standard: Recognize the attributes of length, volume, weight, area and time.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Astro-Matic_3000.html
Let’s Fly Away Airplane Dodecahedron -- Grades K-8
In the interactive version, students click and drag the dodecahedron to see NASA aircraft. They also can read about the aircraft and print full color pictures or a coloring page. In the Build Your Own activity, students print, color and construct their own dodecahedron featuring 12 different NASA aircraft.
Let’s Fly Away supports the following national education standards:
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Identify, compare and analyze attributes of two- and three-dimensional shapes and develop vocabulary to describe the attributes.
National Council of Teachers of Mathematics: Describe attributes and parts of two- and three-dimensional shapes.
National Science Education Standards: Science as a human endeavor.
Interactive Dodecahedron http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/kidsclub/flash/clubhouse/Lets_Fly_Away.html
Build Your Own Dodecahedron http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Lets_Fly_Away.html
Put It Together Puzzle -- Grades K-6
In this interactive online game, students build online puzzles of NASA pictures.
Put It Together supports the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics standard:
Understand patterns, relations and functions.
http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/topnav/materials/listbytype/Put_It_Together.html
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