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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Separating Mixtures

For Teachers 10th - 12th
In this instructional activity the students will learn how to classify the materials as mixtures, elements and compounds and identify the properties of each group. Also the concept of separation of mixtures will be introduced to the...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Surfactants: Helping Molecules Get Along

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn about the basics of molecules and how they interact with each other. They learn about the idea of polar and non-polar molecules and how they act with other fluids and surfaces. Students acquire a conceptual understanding...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: All About Water!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young scholars learn about the differences between types of water (surface and ground), as well as the differences between streams, rivers and lakes. Then, they learn about dissolved organic matter (DOM), and the role it plays in...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Let's Make Silly Putty

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students make two different formulations of imitation Silly Putty with varying degrees of cross-linking. They witness how changes in the degree of cross-linking influence the putty properties.
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Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Courses: Polymer Science Laboratory

For Teachers 9th - 10th
College-level chemical engineering course highlighting polymers. Course topics focus on the range of properties of polymers, methods of synthesis, and physical chemistry. Course features include a list of related readings and a large...
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Website
Environmental Education for Kids

Eek!: Chemical Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides interesting and relevant information on engineering careers by offering a look into the life of a chemical engineer. Also, site describes what type of courses a student should study to pursue an engineering career.
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Handout
Career Cornerstone Center

Profiles of Chemical Engineers: Chevron Process Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a profile of Ms. Gloria Chaw, a process engineer at Chevron Research & Technology Company in Richmond, California. Presents a video interview and written transcripts of portions of the interview.
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Handout
Career Cornerstone Center

Profiles of Chemical Engineers: Shell Process Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a profile of Ms. Dawn Childs, a process engineer with Shell Chemical Company in Deer Park, Texas. Included in the profile is a video interview about her job and advice to current students.
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Handout
Career Cornerstone Center

Profiles of Chem. Engineers: Fluor Daniel Process Eng.

For Students 9th - 10th
Presents a profile of Mr. William Huang, a process engineer for Fluor Daniel Inc, located in Sugar Land, Texas. Includes the transcript from a video interview with Mr. Huang, covering time management skills, job responsibilities, and...
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Handout
Career Cornerstone Center

Profiles of Chemical Engineers: Dupont Process Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Gives a career profile of Mr. Lee Margolis, a process engineer for Dupont, located in Seaford, Delaware. This site contains an interview transcript covering his job responsibilities, professional development, and advice to rising...
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Handout
Other

University of Delaware: Major Resource Kits

For Students 9th - 10th
Major Resource Kits link academic majors to career alternatives by providing information on career paths, sample job titles, and a short bibliography of Career Resource Center materials available to students in a particular major....
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Carl Bosch

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about the life and work of German chemist, engineer, and Nobel laureate in chemistry, Carl Bosch.
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Article
Famous Scientists

Famous Scientists: Thomas Midgeley Jr.

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet a key figure in a team of chemists that developed the tetraethyllead additive to gasoline as well as some of the first chlorofluorocarbons.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Solid, Liquid or Gas?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify if each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses - sight, sound, smell, texture and taste - to identify the other characteristics of each item.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Chemical Wonders

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated hands-on activity gives...
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Website
Other

Chemical Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This online magazine is devoted to the science of chemical engineering.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Can You Copperplate?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Chemical engineering lesson investigates the processes of chemical plating and electroplating. Teams of students work together to devise a chemical system for plating metal objects with copper, then test and evaluate their findings and...
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Meet Syud Momtaz Ahmed

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet Syud Momtaz Ahmed, a scientist at 3M and tabla player!
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Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Meet Rachel Price

For Students 9th - 10th
Meet Rachel Price, engineer and bike-traveler!
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Website
Careers New Zealand

Careers Nz: Chemical Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Careers New Zealand contains brief profiles of two chemical engineers. The second, Mr. Vaughan Rimmer, is a process engineer at the Marsden Point Oil Refinery in New Zealand.