Engineering Stories for Children
Engineering is Elementary (EiE) develops a new children's illustrated storybook to coordinate with each unit.
Written by staff and reviewed by engineering, cultural, and literacy specialists, this series of books helps cultivate children's understandings of engineering, technology, and the role these disciplines play in society, in a fun and interesting way.
Each EiE story features a child character from a different country or racial or ethnic background. Throughout each book, the lead character is faced with a challenge in his or her own world or daily life that can be solved through engineering. Adult relatives or neighbors involved in engineering offer perspectives from their own work—but it is always the young engineer who uses the Engineering Design Process to creates his or her own solution to the challenge. A "Try It!" activity at the end of each book (a boiled down version of the design challenge presented in the teacher's guide associated with each storybook) invites young readers to engineer their own solutions to the same design challenge.
