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Increased Engagement with Project Lead the Way

4/24/2017

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Submitted by Scott Nichols
Project Lead the Way, Pikesville High School
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The Lighthouse initiatives at Pikesville High School have played an integral part in successfully implementing the Project Lead the Way Engineering Design and Development Capstone Course.  The students work in groups of four to research a real-world, current problem and develop a testable solution to the problem over the course of the year; the engineering design process is closely followed every step of the way.  In prior lessons, each student generated three-to-four concept sketches that presented a proposed solution to their group’s problem.  At beginning of this lesson, each group had already narrowed their proposed solutions down to three-to-four.  Throughout the course of this lesson, students rotated to each group to provide feedback in order to aid in determining a final solution to the proposed project.  The students left physical post-it notes on the designs while they rotated, as well as comments on each group’s online virtual engineering notebook.  With the use of the physical post-it notes and the devices to access virtual notebooks, students were able to provide each other with comments, questions, and other various forms of feedback.  The students were heavily engaged in this lesson and were forced to think outside-of-the-box in order provide meaningful feedback to their classmates.  Although this lesson could be implemented without the use of the device, the opportunity for students to provide feedback to online engineering journals was more engaging for students and provided the opportunity for digital documentation.
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