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Looking for ideas & inspiration, downloadable teaching resources, or paperback activity books that make great end-of-the-year gifts and prizes? You’ve come to the right place!
Engaging, no-prep resources for your STEM Club, Makerspace, Project-Based Learning, or Engineering Design and Modeling classes.
If you’re looking to teach students to “Draw Like an Engineer” and inspire them to pursue a career in STEM, then you’re in the right place.
Fun STEM activity books contain lots of drawing ideas and writing prompts to help kids think and draw like an engineer!
I help Middle School teachers (and homeschool parents) like you begin developing Engineering Literacy in their students, even if they’ve never studied engineering themselves.
You’re in the right place if:
That’s why I created STEM-Inspirations. To help you get started with fun, no-prep activity books and digital resources that inspire your students and teach real engineering practices.
Many steps in the Engineering Design Process rely on some form of drawing, from labeled sketches to a presentation of the final solution.
Try this fun and easy STEAM engineering drawing challenge that integrates art education with core STEM subjects
Fun STEM activity book contains lots of drawing ideas and writing prompts to help kids think and draw like an engineer — No Math Required!
“I am so glad I got this book! I am a 4th grade teacher at a STEM school, and have been setting up a makerspace in my classroom over the last few years, as funds have allowed. As I was searching for supplies for that makerspace, I came upon this book, and decided on a whim to buy it….I am SO GLAD I got it!
With the Next Generation Science Standards having engineering design as an integral component of science instruction, this book will prove very valuable! It walks kids through how to design their ideas in a way that is accurate and useful, and it teaches them how to think through that process.
Modeling is such an important aspect of the engineering design process, and this book will help immensely. It trains kids to do scale models, 3D models, front/side/plan models, cutaway models, and much more, and I can’t wait to start using it with my students. Thank you, Ms. Martin, for producing such a wonderful book!”
~Amazon.com review of My Engineering Draw & Write Journal For Kids: 48 Fun Drawing and Writing Prompts to Learn about the Engineering Design Process
“Holly is an outstanding science writer, able to translate complex subjects for a broad audience, without ‘dumbing down’ the content.”
~Josh Chamot, The National Science Foundation
“I use this resource as an activity for students who finish their graded sketches early in my Design and Modeling class. This gives them something engaging to do, while helping them to practice using the skills that we learn in D&M to sketch objects for production.”
“Great for an intro activity on Isometric drawing. Used for my drafting and design class!”
“Even though this was for younger students it worked well with high schoolers with a few changes.”
“This was literally a life saver for distance learning in the spring. We were able to give students paper packets of things before quarantine happened. Students enjoyed having something on paper to do instead of all of it being digital.”
~Product reviews on the STEM-Inspirations Teachers Pay Teachers shop
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