The Go-To Guide for Engineering Curricula, PreK-5

Foreword - Janet Kolodner Introduction - Cary Sneider Technology and Engineering in Middle School Standards - Cary Sneider Acknowledgments - Cary Sneider 1. Seeds of Science/Roots of Reading - Jacquey Barber 2. Physical Science Comes Alive! - Gary Benenson 3. Engineering by Design TEEMS: Kindergarten Through Second Grade - Diana Cantu 4. BSCS Science Tracks: Connecting Science & Literacy - Nancy Landes & Janet Carlson 5. A World in Motion From SAE International - Chris Ciuca 6. Engineering Opportunities in FOSS: The Full Option Science System, 3rd Edition - Linda DeLucchi & Laurence Malone 7. Engineering is Elementary: Engineering for Elementary School Students - Christine Cunningham 8. Tangible Kindergarten: Learning How to Program Robots in Early Childhood - Marina Bers 9. Engineering Adventures: Engineering for Out-of-School Time - Melissa Higgins 10. Engineering by Design TEEMS and I3 for Grades 3,4,5, and 6 - William Giese 11. Design It! Design Engineering Projects for Afterschool - Charlie Hutchison 12. Engineering for Everyone: 4-H's Junk Drawer Robotics Curriculum - Steven Worker, Richard Majacek, Tara Wheeler, & Saundra Frerichs 13. Picture STEM - Tamara Moore & Kristina Tank 14. STEM in Action: Solar House Design - Elizabeth Gajdzik, Johannes Strobel, & Barbara DiSioudi

Cary Sneider is Associate Research Professor in the Center for Science Education at Portland State University in Portland, Oregon, where he teaches research methodology to teachers in a Master's degree program. In recent years he served the National Research Council as design lead for technology and engineering to help develop A Framework for K-12 Science Education: Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Core Ideas, which has provided the blueprint for Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). He then played a similar role on the writing team to produce the NGSS, which was released in April, 2013. The recognition that teachers would need access to instructional materials to help them meet the new standards led Cary to develop the current volume, Engineering Curricula Ready to Go! Cary was not always interested in engineering-or at least he didn't know that he was. For as long as he can remember he was interested in astronomy. He read all he could find about it, and when he was in middle school his father bought him a small telescope. In high school Cary built his own telescopes, grinding mirrors and designing and building mountings. All this time he thought he was doing science. Today, he recognizes that like many scientists, he especially enjoyed the engineering part of the work. During his junior year at college Cary had an opportunity to teach at an Upward Bound program, and found that he enjoyed teaching even more than research in astronomy. In subsequent years he taught science in Maine, Costa Rica, Coalinga California, and the Federated States of Micronesia. He returned to college, this time to obtain a teaching credential and eventually a PhD degree in science education from the University of California at Berkeley. He spent nearly thirty years in Berkeley, developing instructional materials and running teacher institutes at the Lawrence Hall of Science. He spent another decade as Vice President at the Museum of Science in Boston, where he developed a high school curriculum called Engineering the Future, and finally moved to Portland, Oregon, to be closer to children and grandchildren. Over his career Cary directed more than 20 federal, state, and foundation grant projects, mostly involving curriculum development and teacher education. His R&D interests have focused on helping students and museum visitors unravel their misconceptions in science, on new ways to link science centers and schools to promote student inquiry, and on integrating engineering and technology education into the K-12 curriculum. In 1997 he received the Distinguished Informal Science Education award from NSTA and in 2003 was named National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences for his service on several National Research Council committees.