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Engineering Ideas for Kids

It all starts with, well, what are our goals? And how does this project support those goals and how are we assessing in light of those goals? So, you would expect to see for any project a scoring guideline, a rubric, in which there are clear links to the project, to some criteria and standards that we value that relate to some overarching objective -- quite explicitly, that we're aiming for as teachers.

What we have to do is realize that even if we give this kid free reign to do really cool projects, it's still got to fit within the context of some objectives, standards, and criteria that we bring to it, and frame the project in so that we can say by the end, "I have evidence. I can make the case that you learned something substantial and significant that relates to school objectives."

There are different categories of analogies: ● Opposites or antonyms: up is to down as short is to tall ● Synonyms or words with identical or similar meanings: big is to large as little is to small ● Characteristic: pillow is to soft as blanket is to warm ● Part to whole: trunk is to tree as stem is to flower ● Uses: broom is to sweep as pencil is to write ● Users: hammer is to carpenter as brush is to painter ● Category: robin is to bird as shark is to fish ● Product to Producer: poem is to poet as sculptor is to statue ● Degree: snow is to blizzard as rain is to hurricane ● Homonyms: four is to for as see is to sea