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Teaching Fifth Graders Engineering

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the get-on-the-method dept.

Jamie noticed a NYT story saying "To compete in a global economy, some school districts are offering engineering lessons to students in kindergarten. " The story is about 5th graders working on a new experimental curriculum that is well beyond the egg drop of old.

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  1. Re:Parents are the Biggest Factor by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Funny

    You could adopt the alternate strategy, of forcing them to play with a "Child's First Call Center Playset: Now with over 500 recordings of angry, clueless, customers and verbally abusive managers!" for 14 hours a day.

    This won't actually teach them anything; but it will fill them with a burning desire to acquire job skills.

  2. Re:Parents are the Biggest Factor by Rogerborg · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm an engineer, and I am a parent

    Inconceivable!

    For once, that word does mean what I think it means.

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  3. Re:NICE! by bickerdyke · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hmm.. I think it was elemantary sodium you used for that....

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  4. I call bullshit by Hognoxious · · Score: 3, Funny

    Fifth graders are far too soft and slippy to make anything useful out of.

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