Disneyland for Engineers: teacher key

Mark Rober, grade 12 edition, written for 12th grade and up. Mark Rober left a career at NASA and Apple to teach science through videos and classroom lessons. Read the evidence of how he works, what he built and what people who know him say.

Read the book. Print this page for the key.

Questions and answers

1. What does Rober call NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory?
   • A small office
   • A museum
   • Disneyland for engineers (answer)
2. What did the NASA-wide wiki that Rober worked on win him?
   • One of NASA's top internal honors (answer)
   • A trip to Mars
   • A new car
3. What did Curiosity find in a rock it drilled?
   • Evidence of a lake that was once mud (answer)
   • Gold
   • A frozen river on the surface
4. What did Rober do with a drone at MIT in 2023?
   • Raced it
   • Had it fly his graduation cap up (answer)
   • Gave it away
5. How much did Rober say he and CrunchLabs had invested in Class CrunchLabs?
   • About $60 million (answer)
   • About $6 million
   • About $600
6. What does Rober's approach to failure suggest about how he sees setbacks?
   • As a level to beat and learn from (answer)
   • As proof to quit
   • As something to hide

Words

• microbes: small life forms
• Curiosity: a Mars rover
• wiki: a sharing site
• curriculum: science lessons