“Design under constraint”Īnd readers can be seen, too, to hoe in the engineer’s row: identify a problem facing a character, understand how details of the story define the elements of the problem, analyze how a character does or does not solve the problem, and reflect on ways the story touches, even shapes, one’s own experience of the world. Using imagination and ingenuity to conjure up something that does not already exist to please or serve others is both the engineer’s and the writer’s task. We developed the coloring book to help young kids see the engineering that is always already all around them, in the buildings, cars, toys, and tools that shape their daily lives.Ĭhildren’s books are, by definition, great at this work connecting fun pictures with engaging stories to render make-believe worlds is, from a certain angle, another way of describing engineering itself. Our goal with the coloring book has always started with the first lesson most people need to learn about engineering: how to know it when they see it. Please, for example, go get a free download of our coloring book, What’s Engineering? Learning to see But efforts to help, share, and encourage each other have overflowed in online education communities, to the benefit of educators, students, and families.įloods of ideas and resources have come from countless individuals and organizations to help the millions of families whose households have suddenly become classrooms. Nobody has any very good answers amid the anxiety and trauma of these COVID-19 times.
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