| Learning what an engineer does is hard work! Kindergartners are learning to identify the characteristics of the designed world, focusing on the difference between living and non-living things and human-made vs. natural things. We're starting with our first sort of the year, identifying the technologies engineers make! Some items are tricky to identify, because not all non-living things are designed by engineers. For example, a rock is non-living, but it is natural. Therefore, it is not a technology that engineers design. We're also learning our "What Do Engineers Do?" song, which is sung to the tune of "A Farmer in the Dell." Here's our first two verses: What do engineers do? What do engineers do? Hi-ho-the-derry-o, What do engineers do? They design non-living things, They design non-living things, Hi-ho-the-derry-o, They design non-living things! |