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Annie Whitehouse

Annie Whitehouse is a Marketing Specialist at EiE.

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Monday, December 23

Happy Holidays from EiE

From everyone here at EiE, thank you for making 2019 a terrific year. We have loved hearing your stories, seeing your learners discover their inner engineer, and seeing you connect and share ideas with each other!

This year, we were honored to receive a CODiE Award for Best PreK/Early Childhood Learning Solution for our Wee Engineer curriculum, we worked with Questacon to bring EiE to classrooms across Australia, and we released a new, NASA-themed Engineering Adventures unit. Behind the scenes, we have been hard at work developing new EiE experiences that will help you develop your learners' STEM identity—and even engage their families in the engineering fun!

Profiles | EiE Teaching Tips | Implementing EiE | Engineering Everywhere | Create a Generation of Problem Solvers | STEM Implementation | Thursday, October 31

Letting Learners Take the Lead: 3 Ways to Foster Problem Solving in Your Classroom

Solving food scarcity. Preventing viral outbreaks. Designing buildings to withstand natural disasters. Through Engineering Adventures and Engineering Everywhere, learners across the country have proposed unique, data-driven solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. These flexible curricula were tested in afterschool and summer programs, but classroom educators across the country have been implementing them into their STEM instruction for years. Just ask Camie Walker, the Utah educator who was featured on our blog in 2016 for her incredible work with the Engineering Adventures unit Shake Things Up: Engineering Earthquake-Resistant Buildings. She chose units from EiE’s flexible curricula because she loves creating opportunities for learners to connect what they’re learning to the world around them and to follow their STEM interests and passions.

We sat down with Walker to learn how she uses flexible curricula to foster an inquiry-based, globally focused culture in her classroom that leads to plenty of real-world connections, and even the chance to perform with a Mythbuster!

Profiles | Implementing EiE | Engineering for All | Create a Generation of Problem Solvers | STEM Implementation | Wednesday, October 16

Creating a Culture of Problem Solving in Battle Ground, Indiana

It’s a groundbreaking year for Battle Ground Elementary School in Battle Ground, Indiana. For the first time, teachers across all grade levels will be using EiE. For many of them, EiE will be brand new, but they have experts in their midst: principal John Pearl and veteran fifth-grade science educator Diane Lehman have been championing EiE for 10 years. In the past decade, they’ve seen how EiE sets learners up for success in later grades, levels the playing field, and opens the doors for exciting real-world connections. Now, they’re ready to share everything they’ve learned with the educators in their school and across their district, so they can help even more learners discover their STEM identity.

EiE Resources for Teachers | Engineering for All | Tuesday, September 17

3 Engineering Role Models to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month

At EiE, we believe that one of the most powerful ways you can help kids envision themselves as engineers is to present them with role models that they can identify with. According to the National Science Foundation, in 2015, Hispanic engineers made up just 7% of the engineering workforce. Introducing young learners to diverse STEM leaders before stereotypes about “who can be an engineer” take hold can help level the playing field and inspire them to discover their inner engineer. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, we’re spotlighting three Hispanic engineers who broke barriers and used their knowledge of math and science to solve problems and change our world.

EiE Resources for Teachers | EiE Teaching Tips | STEM Funding | Tuesday, August 27

Back to School Resource Kit

Back to school time is upon us! Whether you're brand new to STEM or a seasoned engineering educator, it's the perfect time to reflect on your goals for the upcoming year and think about how to help a new group of learners discover their STEM identity. We've compiled a few resources that will help you with everything from syllabus planning to storage and organization, so you can start the year off right.

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