Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
Explore the historic reasons women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics today.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Technology Over Time
In this interactive activity adapted from A Science Odyssey, learn how technology in the home has changed through the years. Scroll through a timeline from 1900 to 2010 to explore technological innovations in the home (such as...
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Technology and Ethics
Investigate the meaning of ethics and morality as applied to technology and scientific advances. Research various issues related to scientific, technological and medical advances in the past decade and take a stand on each.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Cars From the Future
Students learn about air pollution caused by cars and what engineers are doing to try to help with the problem. Students then design their own environmentally friendly car and give a presentation to experience how engineers have to be...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Transportation and the Environment
Looking at transportation and the environment, young scholars learn that some human-made creations, such as vehicles, can harm the environment. They also learn about alternative fuels and vehicles designed by engineers to minimize...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Case of Innovation
A white paper is a focused analysis often used to describe how a technology solves a problem. In this literacy activity, students write a simplified version of a white paper on an alternative electrical power generation technology. In...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Habitat Mapping
The marine environment is unique and requires technologies that can use sound to gather information since there is little light underwater. In this lesson, the middle schoolers will be shown benthic habitat images produced by GIS. These...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education: Reverse Engineering
Learners use reverse engineering to examine, classify, diagram, and identify the purpose and technological impacts of the components of two different single-use cameras.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Shake It Up With Seismographs
During this lesson, students learn how seismographs work and how technology has impacted the world by helping save lives from earthquakes. They will work in teams to design, test, and evaluate the results of their own seismographs, then...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Greenewables
Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power: passive solar, solar...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: A Magnetic Personality
Students learn about magnets and how they are formed. They investigate the properties of magnets and how engineers use magnets in technology. Specifically, students learn about magnetic memory storage, which is the reading and writing of...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Crash! Bang!
Students learn about the physical force of linear momentum - movement in a straight line - by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the psychological...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Rocking the Boat
The concepts of stability and equilibrium are introduced while students learn how these ideas are related to the concept of center of mass. They gain further understanding when they see, first-hand, how equilibrium is closely related to...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
For thousands of years, navigators have looked to the sky for direction. Today, celestial navigation has simply switched from using natural objects to human-created satellites. A constellation of satellites, called the Global Positioning...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Impact of Technology: Cars
This video segment adapted from A Science Odyssey looks at the invention of the automobile and the development of mass production. [4:21]
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Making Sense of Sensors
Lesson explore sensors focusing on ones that measure humidity. Students work in teams to design, build, test, and evaluate a hygrometer which was made out of everyday materials to measure humidity levels.
University of Houston
University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: No. 1359: History of Windmills
This page provides a brief account of the history of windmills, their origins and types. This is a transcript of an accompanying radio broadcast.
Other
The Naked Scientists: Online Science Podcast and Science Radio Show
An online science radio show and podcast covering STEM topics of technology, medicine, and science. Includes experiment ideas, current scientific research, science news, science book reviews, and so much more.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Electric Messages: Then and Now
Lesson investigates electronic communication from the Morse Code system to text messaging. To learn about this, students construct simple circuits, send messages to each other, and explore the history and impact of communication.
Nature Research
Scitable: Genetics and Society
Get an in-depth look at the ethical, legal, and social implications genetic technologies have on society. Explore the ethical considerations that genetics has on our society with the advances in genetically-tailored treatments, genetic...
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Human Genome Project Overview
Explains the goals of the Human Genome Project. It also explains some of the ethical, legal and social challenges associated with this new technology.
Other
American Society of Gene & Cell Therapy
Here find information about gene and cell therapy and other important terminology. Includes a glossary and resources on disease treatments and government regulations.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Career Technical Education Research
This lesson is designed to help students document their research for a year long capstone project. (Creating an Engineering Report)The students will be following the requirements for the Siemens Math, Science Technology competition....
Cosmo Learning
Cosmo Learning: Introduction to Bioengineering
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the bioengineering field. Webpage includes sixteen videos from professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lectures vary in length and include an introduction...