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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Laura Lee Lang NBCT, Sauk Prairie High School

addresses the following (maximum 4,000 characters): a. Learning objectives b. Hands-on activities and interactive exercises c. Materials that participants can take with them d. Practical application for teachers and outreach staffThe Teaching Creative Problem Solving workshop is designed to help teachers answerthe question of how to teach creative problem solving within the structure and time limitsof a science classroom.Laura Lang will give a step-by-step description of how her Advanced Placement Physicsstudents have used engineering practices to design devices in laboratory activities.Participants will have an opportunity to use some of those engineering practices todesign their own devices to solve a specific

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Ann P McMahon, Pacific Science Center; Jacob Clark Blickenstaff Ph.D., Pacific Science Center-LASER

curriculum, instruction, assessment, professional development, materials and equipment support and administrative and community support, 2) Facilitating alignment of science and engineering instructional materials to state and national standards and, 3) Establishing a K-8 science and engineering program that is designed to improve teaching and learning in classrooms and schools across Washington State in the 21st Century.Immersive engineering experiences and our science/engineering notebook tool will be featured. Page 18.27.3WA LASER 2015-ASEE-K12-Proposal-Form.docxPage 2 of 7 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL FORM 2015

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

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Mohamad Musavi, University of Maine; Cary Edward James, Bangor High School; Ali Abedi, University of Maine

Edward James, Bangor High School Mr. Cary James has a BS in chemistry and an MS in Plant Pathology. He has received numerous teaching awards including the Siemens Award for Advanced Placement Teacher of the Year for Maine 2009, Pulp and Paper Foundation Maine Teacher Award 2009, New England Institute of Chemistry Maine State Teacher Award 2011, New England Water Environmental Association Public Educator Award 2013, and has received the Francis Crowe Society Honorary Engineering Degree from the University of Maine 2010. Recently he presented a lecture on High School Students as Water Researchers at the Climate Change and the Future of Water Conference in Abu Dhabi. His students have excelled in many national and