Mindy ZarskeK-12 Engineering CoordinatorITL Program, University of Colorado at Boulder

Paul KlenkCo-Director, Engineering K-PhD ProgramPratt School of Engineering, Duke University, NC

and the Submittal Review Process

Creating Searchable

TeachEngineering Documents

• What does it mean to be a contributor?• Website Formatting Requirements• Engineering and K-12 Rubrics • Quality Control Process

Creating TE Documents

• Our team teaches you to format your curricula in Word templates for publication• You agree to allow others to freely use

your material for educational purposes

What does it mean to become a TE contributor?

Prior to publication, • You must classroom-test the curricula• Curricula is peer-reviewed by a teacher

and an engineer• Take a look at TE to see what is already

published in the collection

Curricula must be original work

What does it mean to become a TE contributor?

• Searchable• Common “look & feel”

o Fonts and layout controlled by the websiteo You specify image placement

(such as photos, tables, drawings)

• Flexible to incorporate different teaching styles within those requirements

More on formatting after lunch…

Website Formatting Requirements

• We recognize our contributors approach engineering in the K-12 classroom differently• Goal: To accommodate differences while

ensuring curricula incorporates engineering• Created categories of engineering activities

Ways of Teaching Engineering

• Category 1:Relating science concept to engineering

• Category 2:Relating math concept to engineering

• Category 3: Engineering analysis or partial design

• Category 4: Complete engineering design process

Designation required of all activities

TE Engineering Categories

• Submit documents to TeachEngineeringin Word templates

• Document(s) sent to reviewero K-12 Content Review – Teacher uses rubric to ensure

quality, readability and usability by teacherso Engineering Review – Engineer or upper-level

engineering student uses rubric to evaluate technical content and determine curricular category

• Document is accepted, accepted with changes,or rejected (similar to a journal submission)

• Final edit of the document is required

Quality Control Process