For classroom teachers, home-schoolers, out-of-school programs, informal educators – anyone teaching engineering to kids.
From How to Teach Kids Engineering – 5 Keys to Success 3/5 republished with permission…
3. Seek Out Inspiration
Kids need vision casting. Lots of it. When I mention a new project idea to them, I usually get mixed reactions. But after we watch some amazing videos together on that topic, they are excited and ready to dive in.
So just before we start a new type of project, we all sit together to watch some Youtube videos to get inspired. Before we created our first LEGO Mindstorms robot, we watched a ton of videos and then picked our 10 favorite. When we wanted to build our own Rube Goldberg machine, we watched amazing videos and that inspired us to do multiple projects. Inspiration gets our minds ready to do big things.
Check out some of our lists of Inspirational videos:
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