Engineering for Sustainable Communities
Welcome to I-Engineering for Sustainable Communities! I-Engineering is a justice-oriented approach to teaching engineering in the middle grades and is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards.
Curricular Materials
The I-Engineering curriculum provides middle school classrooms with two connected engineering design units focused on engineering for sustainable communities:
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Designing and iterating on electric art for loved ones, and
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Creating sustainable, green-energy powered engineering design solutions for their classroom.
These two design challenges are grounded in the disciplinary core ideas of energy transformations, sources and systems, and sustainability, alongside engineering practices.
Download Both Curricular Units Together!! I-Engineering for Sustainable Communities
Within the curriculum, you will find: Teacher Lesson Plans & Student Activity Sheets. Our Teacher Lesson Plans include in addition to the plan itself: a) samples of student work to help make the goals for student learning clear, and to provide insight into potential challenges students may face, b) teaching tips for implementation, c) NGSS Connections, and d) embedded assessments.
Supporting Toolkits for Teachers
This toolkit provides an overview of the Engineering for Sustainable Communities Approach, with both information and tools that teachers can use to adapt their classrooms materials to incorporate this approach. We explore why justice matters in engineering education, and how teachers can take a justice stance through engineering in ways that connect to science and engineering in everyday life. This not only support rigorous learning of engineering practices and disciplinary core ideas, but also welcomes family and community funds of knowledge as part of authentic design that students and their teachers can use both now and in the future as they work collaboratively towards justice.
I-Engineering and the Next Generation Science Standards!
