Students study industrial processes and greenhouse emissions. In this research instructional activity students choose a manufactured product, research the life cycle of the product, and present it in a PowerPoint presentation.

Fifth graders discuss the functions, benefits and drawbacks of packaging.  In this product package lesson students design alternative packaging and write an essay to deal with the issues of packaging. 

In this fun lesson, you will be the "customer" ordering a paper airplane, and your student teams will be engineering companies that will manufacture planes. Before they start making planes, they need to define the criteria and...