Engineering 40: What Characteristics Are Most Important to be a Successful Engineer?
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Grades: K - 12
Video Description: Type of Video: Q & A Segment
Alec Herzog, engineer from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, shares two characteristics he believes are very important to being a successful engineer.
This video is one of many Q & A segments available as part of our Careers collection.
In addition to the lesson plans and activity ideas included with the Teacher and Student Tools below, here’s a quick suggestion for use of this video:
- Ask students: Were they surprised by Mr. Herzog’s answer to the question? Were there other characteristics they thought he would share? What does his answer say to them about the importance of these characteristics?
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Student Tools
Student Tool 65: Journal Entry Worksheet
Students can use this activity on their own to share their learning and insights about any video they watch independently, and this Student Tool can also be used in conjunction with Teacher Tool 317: Sharing Your Insights Through A Journal Entry as part of a classroom or homeschool activity. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Student Tool 68: Vocabulary Interesting to Me Worksheet
Students can use this activity on their own to share their learning and insights about vocabulary in any video they watch independently, and this Student Tool can also be used in conjunction with Teacher Tool 320: Vocabulary Interesting to Me as part of a classroom or homeschool activity. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tools
Teacher Tool 317: Cross Curricular Activity–Sharing Insights Through a Journal Entry
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to write a journal entry that shares learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 318: Cross Curricular Activity–Video Reflection
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to complete a reflection worksheet to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 319: Cross Curricular Activity–Sharing Learning Verbally
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, provides an Interdisciplinary activity that invites students to share learning and insights they gained by watching the video through verbal sharing and conversation. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
Teacher Tool 320: Vocabulary Interesting to Me
This teacher tool, accompanying the video above, invites students to increase their vocabulary by selecting, and learning the definitions of, words in the video that are unknown and/or interesting to them. This tool can be used with any video on the Educate.Today website.
