Three Little Pigs Challenge

Our Beginnings Workshop Book, Curriculum: Brain Research, Math, Science, explores how the teaching of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) can begin in the preschool years.  In Brain World magazine (Fall 2014; brainworldmagazine.com), Kenneth Wesson argues that "Parents and teachers should learn to recognize 'where STEM is' in what they already teach in class, do at home, or experience during the day."  He offers as an example this STEM learning activity:

"Take a traditional storybook that presents a problem.  Ask students to 'engineer' a different (preferably better) solution to the problem.  For example, you have received an urgent e-mail message from the Three Little Pigs.  They have been traumatized long enough by the Big Bad Wolf!  Your family/class has been commissioned by the Three Little Pigs to engineer two safeguards to thwart the Big Bad Wolf.  How many design and engineering models can you propose as solutions to the Three Little Pigs problem?"

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