Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Summer 2017

Publication Title

Science Teacher

Publisher

NSTA

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.2505/4/tst17_084_05_25

Abstract

With the widespread adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS Lead States 2013), science teachers now aspire to integrate engineering into science instruction, as the standards suggest, yet many don’t know how. The first steps are to define engineering and identify tasks that incorporate engineering, which can be difficult and confusing. This article presents a simple explanation of engineering and offers a framework to help teachers determine whether a task is based on engineering. We also offer examples of how to integrate engineering in Earth science, chemistry, biology, and physics.

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The published version of this article can be found here: https://my.nsta.org/resource/?id=10.2505/4/tst17_084_05_25

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