1st Edition
Feats and Flops A Creative Engineering Unit for Advanced and Gifted Students
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 Maker’s 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
Biography
Jason S. McIntosh, Ph.D., is an experienced educator and passionate advocate for gifted education. He has served as a gifted coordinator and Director of Advanced Learning Experiences for several school districts in Arizona. To find out more about his latest curriculum projects, please visit his website at www.notmoreofthesame.com.
