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- Title
THE ROADSTER CHALLENGE: A Model Eliciting Activity for second graders.
- Authors
Parks, Melissa
- Abstract
Model Eliciting Activities (MEAs) are pedagogical approaches that allow teachers to integrate multiple subjects into creative multi-day learning experiences that captivate students' curiosity and engage them in real-life problem solving (Figure 1). The ability to tailor MEAs by pairing teacher-selected ELA and mathematics skills with science content to meet the needs of the class makes them a worth-while primary grade instructional strategy. Before letting teams begin their brainstorming, the teacher reviewed the materials in each supply bag, named them, and modeled some questions students might ask within the team to facilitate the engineering design process: For example, one student wrote his test results on the client letter instead of the report, so the teacher reminded, "Copy the test data onto the report sheet.
- Subjects
AUTOMOBILE racetracks; COMMON Core State Standards; SCIENCE education
- Publication
Science & Children, 2020, Vol 57, Issue 7, p22
- ISSN
0036-8148
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/00368148.2020.12291552