{"id":390,"date":"2012-03-30T15:27:31","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:27:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=390"},"modified":"2012-03-30T15:27:31","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T15:27:31","slug":"stages-of-art-stages-of-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Stages of Art, Stages of Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently noticed a significant jump in my son&#8217;s art skills.\u00a0 Truth be told, he was the one that noticed.\u00a0 He came home from school very excited to draw saying, &#8220;Dad, I write like a sixth grader!&#8221;\u00a0 (He was a little mixed up on the difference between &#8220;draw&#8221; and &#8220;write&#8221;, it turns out.)\u00a0 He made a sudden jump from drawing stick figures to drawing filled in figures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stick.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-392\" title=\"Stick Figure Person\" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stick.jpg\" alt=\"Stick Figure Person\" width=\"257\" height=\"457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stick.jpg 645w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stick-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/stick-574x1024.jpg 574w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/filledIn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-391\" title=\"Filled In Figure \" src=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/filledIn-241x300.jpg\" alt=\"Filled In Figure \" width=\"241\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/filledIn-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/filledIn-823x1024.jpg 823w, https:\/\/kidsengineer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/filledIn.jpg 1081w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 241px) 100vw, 241px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I asked him if he learned this at art class, he said that he had not but had practiced and learned on his own, at school.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting that the arms come out of the waist consistently.\u00a0 When I said that his drawing where great and that I could show him one thing to make them even better and draw a basic filled in figure with the arms coming out the shoulder, he attempted to make the change but shortened the torso to almost nothing.<\/p>\n<p>So what&#8217;s the point of all this ?\u00a0 I have been thinking that these development stages and the jumps between them are commonplace, if not ubiqitous.\u00a0 Piaget mapped them out for cognitive development and there has been similar work for social-emotional development.\u00a0 Part of my research at school is to determine if kid&#8217;s engineering skills have similar jumps.\u00a0 I will be giving the same kids the same\u00a0 engineering task every year from K to 6 to see if similar jumps occur.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently noticed a significant jump in my son&#8217;s art skills.\u00a0 Truth be told, he was the one that noticed.\u00a0 He came home from school very excited to draw saying, &#8220;Dad, I write like a sixth grader!&#8221;\u00a0 (He was a &hellip; 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