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@@Science/Engineering principles@@

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@@Design skills@@

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@@Describe any concrete deliverables at the end of the lesson:@@

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@@Describe the knowledge and skills you expect students to have coming into the lesson. (If there's already a lesson that covers that ground, note it in brackets.)@@

@@Describe any practical skills (not necessarily taught elsewhere in the curriculum) students would need to have:@@

@@List any suggested follow-up lessons (if any):@@

@@If there are any front-of-class practical demonstrations done by you or a teaching assistant, describe how they might work and what would be needed for them:@@

@@If there are any experiments or demos (not designing or building) the students do themselves or in groups, describe how these might work and what would be needed for them:@@

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@@Estimate the size of class you would want to teach the lesson to, and roughly how many teachers/teaching assistants would be required per student. Explain your choices:@@

Why should students want to participate in this lesson?

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Why should teachers want to teach it?

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If this lesson (and its prerequisites) were the only PEN lessons someone took, what should they be able to do?

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If you had to teach this lesson tomorrow morning, what would you spend tonight working on? (assuming that materials were not an issue)

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If you hadn’t taught this lesson before, what questions would you have for someone who had taught a very similar lesson?

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If the only materials available were broken radios, TVs, and computers, could you do all the electronics in this lesson? (assuming you had solder, soldering irons, etc.) If not, what would be missing?

@@If the only materials available were broken radios, TVs, and computers, could you do all the electronics in this lesson? (assuming you had solder, soldering irons, etc.) If not, what would be missing?|@@

If the only structural materials available were dish-cloths, cardboard, and plastic bags, could you make the mechanical bits of this lesson? (assume equipment as above) If not, what would be missing?

@@If the only structural materials available were dish-cloths, cardboard, and plastic bags, could you make the mechanical bits of this lesson? (assume equipment as above) If not, what would be missing?|@@