Describe at least one reason engineering education is challenging to integrate into K-12 curriculum.
What will be an ideal response?
Answers will vary and include: (1) No one discipline (e.g., mathematics, science, technology education) ensures that students experience and comprehensively understand engineering; (2) most K-12 teachers have had little exposure to engineering education and need continued professional development on this disciplinary topic; (3) engineering must be integrated into other subject areas which already have full curriculum; (4) teachers who elect to integrate engineering topics into their teaching must give engineering the same full treatment as the content they regularly teach, at least for some of the time.
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