Hello to the list.
On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 06:12 pm, Allison Henderson wrote:
> My first question would be, what do children understand 'engineering'
> to be. Engineering in adult perception is difficult enough, before
> doing my arts degree course, I worked in engineering - mechanical and
> electrical for 20 years. The amount of people I met who had no idea
> what it meant was huge. You may need to address the question in a
> simpler form with examples of what engineering could be / is,
> especially as 'engineering' is a coverall for a huge variety of jobs /
> industry sectors.
>
> May be on the drawing side, ask them to draw what an engineer looks
> like, uses at work (eg tools), what do they make etc etc.
Or give them some building blocks. :-)
- Rob.
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