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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Aerospace Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of Aerospace Engineering learning modules will allow students to explore video and interactive media resources that support the middle and high school Engineering Design core ideas.
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Activity
Science Buddies

Science Buddies: Bridge Building Bonanza: Which Design Wins?

For Students 9th - 10th
In this activity, you build and test two types of bridges: a simple suspension bridge and a beam bridge. Which bridge design is stronger?
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Eeeek a Mouse!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students investigate how a mouse works by dissembling and evaluating its design. They are also challenged to improve the design by eliminating or changing components of the mouse they dissembled.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education:nanotechnology,biological Engineering and Biosensors [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson plan where students use their innovative thinking skills to design biosensors for a future use. During the lesson, students will learn about nanotechnology and biosensors.
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Lesson Plan
Other

American Society for Engineering Education: E Gfi: Activity: Keep a Cube

For Teachers K - 1st
In this activity, student teams in grades K-6 explore the design process by engineering a way to keep an ice cube from melting for 30 minutes. [6:00]
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Other

American Society for Engineering Education: E Gfi: Think Like a Bird!

For Teachers 2nd - 4th
Students learn about wildlife habitats, environmental engineering, and the complexities of nest construction by attempting to design and build a nest themselves. This activity can be done individually or with a partner.
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: A Question of Balance

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students work in teams to fill jars with a product that is uniform in weight or count. Lesson investigates how manufacturing engineers use weight scales and measurement to develop systems that can create consistent products.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Concentrated Solar Power

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how the total solar irradiance hitting a photovoltaic (PV) panel can be increased through the use of a concentrating device, such as a reflector or lens. This is the final lesson in the Photovoltaic Efficiency unit and is...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this lesson, students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engineers have to make when...
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: How Does Your Garden Grow?

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
Based on the book Muncha! Muncha! Muncha! by Candace Fleming. Students must use the engineering design process to plan and build a barrier that will keep hungry bunnies out of a garden.
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: Scratch My Back

For Teachers K - 1st
Starting with the book Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup, students use the engineering design process to design a solution to the bear's problem of not being able to scratch an itchy back.
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Lesson Plan
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology

Ciese: The Three Little Pigs

For Teachers K - 1st
Learners are asked to use the engineering design process to construct a house for the third pig in The Three Little Pigs story that can withstand the huffing and puffing of the wolf.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Rockets on a Shoestring Budget

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
In this activity, students revisit the Pop Rockets activity from Lesson 3. This time, however, the design of their pop-rockets will be limited by budgets and supplies. They will get a feel for the limitations of a real engineering...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Transportation and the Environment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Looking at transportation and the environment, students 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 pollution....
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Architects and Engineers

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students explore the interface between architecture and engineering. In the associated hands-on activity, students act as both architects and engineers by designing and building a small parking garage.
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Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Land Surveying Project

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This project resulted from of the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher, Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life application in...