Franklin the Engineer / Franklin Needs to Notice
From Franklin and Friends · 2011
23 minPre-KK1st2ndSocial-Emotional LearningScience
Summary
Franklin becomes an engineer, planning and building to solve a woodland problem. In the second story, he learns to slow down and notice the details he'd been rushing past.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
These stories are about engineering a solution and about paying attention.
- What problem did Franklin the engineer try to solve, and how did he build it?
- What did Franklin miss by not noticing carefully?
- If you could build something to fix a problem, what would it be?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: engineer, build, notice.
Try it: Sketch a simple machine or gadget you'd build to solve an everyday problem.