4 Brain-Boosting Reasons to Teach Technical Drawing for Kids—And Why Coding for Kids is Not Enough
Coding and robotics curriculum, classes and clubs are springing up around the world. They promise to increase kids’ cognitive skills and creativity. But coding is not enough – they need spatial visualization skills that can be developed through learning engineering, or technical drawing. “Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer…because it […]
17 Simple [Research-Based] Ways to Help your Child Learn Better that Don’t Involve Schoolwork
Like every other parent, you want your child to learn and do well in school. But don’t be fooled into thinking that learning only happens in the classroom. In fact, with almost everything your child does, she is learning – absorbing new ideas and information unconsciously. To help nudge that process along, try some of […]
Review and Design Challenge: 3DUX|Design STEAM Activity Play Sets
Kids can learn an easy way to draw in 3D – and much more – with the help of this fun, no-prep activity kit I recently had the opportunity to work with the 3DuxDesign Company, helping them develop a fun and easy engineering drawing challenge to use with their STEAM educational play sets. STEAM activities […]
My Engineering Draw & Write Journal For Kids
48 Fun Drawing and Writing Prompts to Learn about the Engineering Design Process Fun engineering activity book contains lots of drawing and writing ideas to help kids think and draw like an engineer – NO MATH REQUIRED! Click here to order on Amazon. Includes drawing prompts and instructions for using dot grid, quad graph, and […]