Engineering Design Process for kids

Filipino students ranked poorly on creative thinking as seen in the 2022 Program for International Assessment (PISA) results. How can educators ensure students become critical and creative thinkers who can solve problems independently, even at a young age? In this workshop, the participants will learn about the key stages in the Engineering Design Process (EDP) – Empathize, Define, Generate Ideas, Create and Evaluate. Using this process, the participants will come up with a lesson plan that would provide students opportunities to apply their critical and creative thinking, collaborate and communicate with their peers through solving real-life problems.

At the end of the workshop, students will be able to:

1. Recognize the importance of fostering critical and creative thinking in the classroom;

2. Identify the key stages in the EDP – Empathize, Define, Generate Ideas, Create and Evaluate

3. Explore the use of strategies that support the EDP

4. develop a lesson plan using the EDP for Key Stage 1 (Kindergarten to Grade 3)