Do you like to build and create new things? Check out this collection of 48 different engineering activities providing opportunities for creative building using things around the house. These include activities like spinning, rubber band...

Learn how to build an British Iron Age house by following these step by step instructions. Measurements given in metric system.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about wildlife workers who are building artificial reefs to provide food and shelter for sea life. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...

Children design an animal habitat and talk about how the habitat provides the animal's basic needs -- shelter, water, and food -- using this block center activity. It includes three resources.

This is a hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides a full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process...

Learn how to build an appropriate habitat for birds and other animals to maintain structural diversity.

Find a classroom-ready annotated slideshow and lesson plans designed to introduce students to fundamental architectural concepts and to improve their skills in recognizing the structural components of architecture. Slideshow uses...

In this lesson, the students will build a shelter in order to protect themselves from the rain. After the shelters are built, the class will perform durability and water proof testing on the shelters.

Build a table out of newspaper that can hold a heavy weight. Hands-on challenge to invent a sturdy emergency shelter that's easy to build. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary....

We all know that it takes energy to provide us with the basics of shelter: heating, cooling, lighting, electricity, sanitation and cooking. To create energy-efficient housing that is practical for people to use every day requires...

Students are introduced to passive solar design for buildings--an approach that uses the sun's energy and the surrounding climate to provide natural heating and cooling. They learn about some of the disadvantage of conventional heating...

Students build model caverns and bury them in a tray of sand. They test the models by dropping balls onto them to simulate an asteroid hitting the Earth. By molding papier-mache or clay around balloons (to form domes), or around small...

Are you prepared for a major disaster or emergency? Would you know what to do until you could get help? Find out how to prepare yourself ahead of time by building an emergency supply kit and also what to do in a specific disaster such as...

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about tornadoes and the scientists who study them. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

In this activity, the students will use wax paper shaped as leaves and kite string to build a shelter to protect them from the rain. The students will then test the shelters for durability and water resistance.

In this activity, students design an innovative human shelter that is inspired and informed by an animal structure. Each group is assigned an animal class, and they gather information about shelters used by the animals in that class....

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about historical Native American daily life including: clothing, beliefs, food, shelter, and goods. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...

"Join us as we build simple, decent, affordablehouses in partnership with those in need of adequate shelter." Portland Habitat allows you to meet new home owners and read about their attempts to gain housing for their families.

Founded and directed by the internationally renowned architect and author Nader Khalili, this institute works to create homes from the earth using such materials as sand, clay, and dirt. Its mission is to create tree-less places for...

Brush Deermice occupy rocky and brushy or forested environments in which rock ledges, piles of brush, fallen trees, and boulders offer shelter and denning sites. Although they are reportedly good climbers, they only occasionally build...

The Charles A. Lindbergh House and Park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator. Their restored 1906 house and two other farm buildings are within the park boundaries....

Constructed in 1898, this is an example of late 19th-century commercial architecture. It served as the focal point of transportation into Montgomery. The train shed is significant in that it shows the adaptation of bridge-building...