Free pre-engineering curriculum for middle school.Intel's Design and Discovery is a free curriculum with supporting resources for implementing a program to interest students 11 to 14 years of age in design and engineering. The Design and Discovery website is organized into three areas: Implementation, Curriculum and Resources. The implementation section offers information on planning and organizing For other uses, see Organising model and Union organizer. Organizing is the act of rearranging following one or more s. It can also be seen as the opposite of messing up. One organized opposite could be disordered, since ordered is almost synonymous. a program. The curriculum is organized into 18 sessions, which include hands-on hands-on adj. Involving active participation; applied, as opposed to theoretical: "We're involved in hands-on operations, pulling levers, pushing buttons" Arthur R. Taylor. activities. The resources section of the website includes research sources, supplemental design investigations and project examples. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Intel, through its Design and Discovery program, "Students are introduced to fundamental design and engineering concepts and follow a design process that leads to building prototypes of their ideas." Students can also share the results of their work in a mini-engineering fair or compete in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair is the largest pre-college scientific research event in the world. Each May, over 1500 students from 52 nations are flown in to compete in the fair for scholarships, tuition grants, internships, scientific field trips and the (ISEF ISEF International Science and Engineering Fair ISEF International Society for Ethnology and Folklore ) and Intel ISEF-affiliated science fairs. For more information, visit http://www.intel.com/education/Design/index.htm. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] |
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