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“No child is too young to play and therefore to engage in engineering, albeit
of a primitive kind.”
- Henry Petroski Professor of Civil Engineering and professor of history,
Duke University
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The Role of Play in Elementary Engineering
Lora K. Hine Xraise, CLASSE
Cornell University
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Interactive Science Centers
“Distinction between playing and learning
is a false one.” (Wellington, 1990 p.249)
Ithaca Physics Bus
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Play
No consensus on what it means to “play”
Exploring Bubbles with first graders
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Features of Play1. Child-led and voluntary, with no extrinsic goals
2. Focus on activity (process) rather than on the final product
3. Low risk (high success)
4. Highly engaging
5. Potential to contribute to both procedural and conceptual knowledge
(Morgan & Kennewell, 2006)
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Features of Play (cont.)Play is FUN! (Morgan & Kennewell, 2006)
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Learning Through Play
• Through play children can develop social and cognitive skills, mature emotionally, and gain the self-confidence required to engage in new experiences and environments (Kahn & Wright, 2013)
• Play provides a context in which children construct knowledge about physical and social worlds (Goldhaber, 1994)
• “Playful learning” - children actively engage, explore and discover the world around them (Zosh, Fisher, Golinkoff & Hirsh-Pasek, 2013)
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Through Play, students learn to;
explore materials
participate in hands-on activities
self-initiate
solve problems
act on intrinsic motivation
engage deeply in efforts
extend prior knowledge
(based on Morgan & Kennewell, 2006)
collaborate and communicate
invent new things
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The Disappearance
of Play“Formal education has become a serious business, defined as success at abstract thinking and high stakes testing, that
there is no time and no context for play” (Dougherty,
2013, p.8)
Designing spinners with fifth graders
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Effective Learning Practices in College Engineering
Students learn to:
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Though K-12 Engineering Practices, students learn to;
define problems
develop & use models
use math & computational thinking
design, iterate & test solutions
engage in argument from evidence
analyze & interpret data
obtain, evaluate & communicate info
(NRC, 2012, p.43)
reach consensus
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Intersection between Engineering and Playful
Learning
A learning continuum exists for students engaged in the overlapping practices of play and engineering (Honey &
Kanter, 2013)
Engineering practices
Playful learning
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Learning Continuum
Playful Learning Engineering Practices
The idea of playfulness is embedded in engineering through concepts of invention and design. (Petroski, 2003 p. 206)
The learning continuum overlap includes aspects of design, innovation and exploration
Designing & Inventing
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Learning Continuum
Playful Learning Engineering Practices
Guided Play
• Guided Play: adults create flexible interest-driven, child-centered experiences that encourage children’s thinking and scaffold their discoveries (Zosh et al. 2013)
• Engineering design challenges presented in the primary grades are examples of Guided Play
(Design, invention & exploration)
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3rd Grade Design ChallengeBuild a wind-o-meter that will measure two different wind
speeds, 12” from fan using recycled materials
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Testing the First DesignGuided play or engineering design?
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Testing the Second DesignIntroduction of a bearing
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Guided Engineering-based Learning activities help
develop students’:problem solving abilities
conceptual understanding
planning, construction and testing skills
self-confidence
sharing of ideas
Barron & Darling-Hammond, 2008 and Sadler et al., 2000)
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A Framework for K-12 Science Education
The Framework’s emphasis on the practices of science and engineering represents a new opportunity to conceptualize and recognize how expansive forms of pedagogy and learning activities can create deep insights, identification, and understanding for the learner (Bevan et al., 2013)
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A new vision for formal science education!
“In some ways, children are natural engineers….they use a variety of tools and materials for their own playful purposes”. Students’ building efforts progress from free play to solving design problems (NRC, 2012)
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“I could solve my most complex problems in Physics if I had not given up the ways of
thinking common to children at play.”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer