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NAF’s educational design includes four essential elements of practice that help ensure high school students are college, career, and future ready.

Course | Engineering Design Process New

Engineering

This 13-week course takes students through the engineering design process which emphasizes open-ended problem solving and encourages them to learn from failure. This process nurtures students’ abilities to create innovative solutions to challenges in any subject!

Planning Tools

PLANNING TOOLS provides a guide to course implementation, including scope and sequence, lesson plans, and the culminating project overview.

Creative Engineering Design - Unit - TeachEngineering.pdf

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What is Engineering?

Engineering is the ultimate human endeavor, creating solutions to the world’s challenges and designing the products that support our quality of life.

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Instructional Units

Unit 1 Design Step 1 | Identify the Need

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Unit 2 Design Step 2 | Research the Problem

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Unit 3 Design Step 3 | Brainstorm Possible Solutions

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Unit 4 Design Step 4 | Select a Promising Solution Using Engineering Analysis

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Unit 5 Design Steps 5 & 6 | Create and Test a Prototype

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Unit 6 Design Step 7 | Improve, Redesign and Manufacture a Product

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I am a Scientist

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Explore Types of Engineers

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Student Guide

Great guide created by Florida Polytechnic University that provides recommendations from 9th grade to...

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