A Rough Guide to Engineering
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What is Engineering? Where can you find it? Come along on a journey around the world and find out all about what engineers do, and how they do it!
Discover how engineers design cars that go hundreds of miles an hours, build structures that can survive earthquakes, and cook food by using only Mirrors! “A Rough Guide” can show you how Engineering has changed our lives, and with the interactive voting system, you can become an Engineer too!
This
is a careers driven show aiming to introduce secondary school pupils to
the wide range of careers available in engineering, and to
show them that they can aspire to be engineers too!
See reactions to the show here!
"I thought engineering was just about machines but now I think I might be one!" Year 7 Female Student.
Curriculum Links
Key stage 3
- Application of Science and Design Technology
- Obtaining and using materials and components
- Earth science and the environment
Key stage 4
- Forces and motion
- Energy and its uses
- Structures and properties
- Choosing materials, parts and components
- New Technology
Duration
50 or 60 minute versions available
Suggested audiences
- 11-16 years old
- Families or mixed age groups
- Festivals and events
We will need the venue to provide
- Power sockets
- Projector screen
- Two long tables
- Ability to darken room
