Throughout my Kenan Fellowship, my main task has been finalizing a kit of engineering lesson plans and materials that will be distributed to each county in North Carolina. This has required extensive thought into how this kit of lessons will function and be clear to anyone that might decide to teach one (not just teachers). When designing lesson plans for non-teachers, even more thought is involved. Teachers are required to figure out how to “hook” students into every lesson and are  good at adapting the lesson as it unfolds. The effort to make this kit of lessons work well has been a big challenge. Fortunately, there was a lot of good input and development put into the lessons before I was added to the effort. One of the main changes I have made to the five lesson plans is the way it is presented. I have made changes that aim to make the kit less intimidating to begin preparing for a lesson. I hope that this will make the kit more widely used.

For my own KFP lesson plan, I am developing a supplemental activity for the kit. It is a basic introduction to electrical circuits for middle school students. Students will use only their pencil and paper to light up a circuit with LED light bulbs! It is as simple as drawing dark lines on the paper to act as the wires. They will experiment with creating their own series and parallel circuits.