Wee Engineer

Unit Overview

Children use familiar materials to figure out how to make something that solves a specific problem. Four unique design challenges that can be taught in any order build children’s confidence and mastery.

Pre-K
Setting: In school
Science connection: Sound, energy, forces and motion, floating and sinking
4 design challenges
Whole group and station activities

Standards alignment

We’ve developed Wee Engineer with careful attention to early childhood educational standards, including NAEYC and Head Start. View Standards Alignments.

Unit Map

Prep Activities

Children help the engineering puppet figure out how to make a comfortable pillow and begin to associate engineering with solving specific problems. They also sing a song about the Engineering Design Process.