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TeachEngineering: Feel Better Faster - All about Flow Rate
To gain a basic understanding of microfluidic devices, how they are developed, and their uses in the medical field, young STEM engineers learn about how flow rates relate to the speed at which medicine affects the body. What they learn...
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TeachEngineering: Hybrid Vehicle Design Challenge
Wouldn’t it be lovely if there was a way to capture the energy given off by a vehicle and transform it into kinetic energy to power the vehicle? That is the challenge young engineers face in an eight resource TeachEngineering: Hybrid...
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TeachEngineering: Skeletal System
The five lessons in the TeachEngineering: Skeletal System unit module are designed for honors anatomy and physiology classes. Young biomedical researchers are challenged to consider the case of a grandmother who fell and fractured her...
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TeachEngineering: Walk the Line - A Module on Linear Functions
The nine resources in the TeachEngineering: Walk the Line - A Module on Linear Functions unit, designed for Pre-algebra or Algebra 1 classes, focuses on the characteristics of linear equations in algebraic and graphic formats. Scholars...
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TeachEngineering: Keepers of the Gate
Red Rover, Red Rover, send young intracellular engineers right over! In this unit of the TeachEngineering series, scholars tackle the challenge of determining why Grandmother’s suggestion of gargling with salt water to relieve a sore...
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TeachEngineering: Using Nanoparticles to Detect, Treat and Protect from Skin Cancer
Young scientists take on the role of biomedical engineers as they accept the challenge of using nanoparticles to help detect, treat, and protect people from skin cancer. Researchers perform hands-on activities to become familiar with the...
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TeachEngineering: Forces All Around
Imagine using a hot glue gun or a glue stick to demonstrate tension, compression, and torsion! A six-part series of lessons and hands-on activities teach young engineers about the fundamental facets of engineering design: forces, loads,...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 10: Quadratics
The unit begins with scholars watching a video that introduces them to quadratics. They learn what a quadratic is, its key features, and how to sketch a graph of the parabola it defines. The second lesson introduces young mathematicians...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 9: Factoring
To begin Unit 9 in the Common Core Algebra I series, scholars view a video presentation on determining the greatest common factor for algebraic expressions. They see how to use factoring and the zero product property to solve polynomial...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 8: Functions
Four lessons make up Unit 8 in the Flipped Math Algebra 1 module. Each lesson contains an instructional video, practice sets, and corrective assignments. The first lesson looks at function notation, domain, and range. The video...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 5: Bivariate Data
Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 5 is all about Bivariate Data. The first lesson in the series begins with a video on creating a two-way frequency table. Viewers learn how to calculate relative frequencies within the table to determine...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 4: One Variable Statistics
Each of the four lessons in Unit 4: One Variable Statistics comes with videos that teach the concepts, worksheets, practice packets, and corrective assignments. To begin the unit, viewers learn to calculate the mean, median, mode, and...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 3: Systems of Equations
The five lessons in the third unit of the Common Core Flipped Math series focus on Systems of Equations. Each lesson comes with videos that teach the concepts, worksheets, practice packets, and corrective assignments. The unit begins...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 2: Create and Solve Equations and Inequalties
Learners view instruction videos to create and solve equations and inequalities. The first video focuses on determining what values make an algebraic equation true. Pupils describe the solution set using three different methods:...
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Common Core Algebra 1, Unit 1: Analyze Graphs and Expressions
A series of videos teaches young mathematicians how to analyze graphs and expressions. The presenters stress the importance of a consistent scale and proper labels for the graphs and identify the independent and dependent variables. A...
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Becoming Us: Resistance
The three case studies in the Becoming Us: Resistance unit module look at the individuals and groups who have resisted the antidemocratic forces of inequality and oppression. The Fighting For Freedom resource has young historians...
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Becoming Us: Belonging
The Becoming Us: Belonging module examines how the American ideal of shared identity has been challenged by fear and insecurity. The first of three case studies focus on the deportation of Mexican American citizens during the Great...
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Becoming Us: Policy
Studying the laws and policies enacted to restrict or reform immigration, including or excluding certain groups of people, is essential to understanding the complicated history of immigration in our nation's democracy. Three case studies...
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Becoming Us: Education
The Becoming Us: Education module examines the history of the fight for racial justice and educational equity today. The first case study looks at the re-segregation of American schools, while the second explores the resistance to school...
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Becoming Us: Borderlands
Three case studies make up a unit the looks at the power contentions and exchanges in the borderlands that have shaped the United States. The first case study focuses on creating the US southern border and the experiences of people...
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The Big Climate Change Experiment
The Big Climate Change Experiment begins with young scientists gaining background knowledge by watching news clips a video and examining cartoons. Next, learners view videos of witnesses who describe how climate change affects their...
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Moon Munchies: Human Exploration Project and Engineering Design Challenge
NASA and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, or ITEEA, present young scientists with a challenge: design and build lunar plant growth chambers so that astronauts can grow edible plants on the moon. Class...
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Inquiry in Action: 5th Grade Science Lessons
Looking for remote learning science lessons aligned to NGSS? Check out the resources in this inquiry-in-action packet. Designed for fifth graders, the 16 lessons are divided into four chapters: Matter is Mad of Tiny Particles, Substances...
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Algebra I Unit 4: Descriptive Statistics
Four lessons on descriptive statistics comprise the Algebra 1, Unit 4 module. The unit begins with young mathematicians learning how to calculate the mean, median, mode, range, and standard deviation of data sets. They progress to...