Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Crank Mechanism
In this challenge, students will transfer rotational motion into linear motion by building a simple machine. The site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot
Make a robot that moves like a living creature using a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms with this challenge. Also, on this challenge find a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Structure That Assembles Itself
Using magnets design and build a structure that builds itself from pieces. This site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a 3 D Object Out of Tetrahedra
Can you build a 3-D object out of tetrahedra that is as big as you are? With this challenge, students will be using common household items to build their tetrahedra structure. Site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Cantilever
Make a cantilever that can hold 5 marbles at least 12 inches away from its base structure with this engineering challenge. The site contains the challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Construct a Crane
Can you build a crane that uses simple machines and mechanical advantage to move heavy objects? This website contains a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Balance a Dinosaur
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a dinosaur at least 6" tall that can balance on two legs using counterbalances. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dna Origami Inspired Structure
Using pasta students will design and construct a container that can travel along a zip line to deliver a cargo which is candy. This challenge is explored on this site as well as tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Long Spanning Wing
Students are challenged to build a wing that can support its own weight over a span of at least two feet on this website. The website also contains a place for students to document their engineering design process, tips, and a lesson plan.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Set of Mechanical Genes
Design a set of mechanical genes that control the way something grows with this challenge on this site. This site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot
A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make Identical Quantum Dots
Using different materials students will create spheres that are all the same size. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Nanopipe
In this design challenge, students will build walls within a tube so different objects are separated as they travel through the tube. The site contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Nanostamp
On this challenge, students will create a stamp to reproduce a drawing from a meter away quickly and accurately. This challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What's the Matter: Concentration Game
What's the Matter? is a guided inquiry lesson on classification of matter, physical and chemical properties, and physical and chemical changes. There are two parts to this lesson: (a) concentration game for definitions and (b)...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Do We Have in Common?
This inquiry instructional activity explores the definitions of quadrilaterals and the properties of the diagonals of quadrilaterals to classify quadrilaterals. Students will work cooperatively to justify conclusions. This lesson plan...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: I'm So Crushed
In this activity, students will have an opportunity to solve a mystery. They will discover why a soda can collapses during a demonstration due to the effects of changes in temperature and atmospheric pressure. Students will gain further...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Project Nopp Drifters
Data collected by the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) can be used by teachers to integrate ocean science into their science and math instruction.This site offers educational activities, curriculum materials, and lesson...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Introduction to the Light Microscope
This is a Microscope Internet Lab that can be used as a virtual lab for a whole class or as a make-up lab. The virtual microscope is a little more complicated than the microscope that is used in the labs but it will not be difficult to...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: How Sweet It Is
As part of the study of Matter, the students will determine the density of standard percent sugar solutions through hands on experimentation. In laboratory groups, students will graph a standardized curve of the experimental data. The...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Quadrilaterals
This is an inquiry lesson plan used to review Algebra 1 objectives by applying them to geometry concepts. Students explore the properties of quadrilaterals and classify them by definition. This lesson plan can be use in geometry classes....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Souper Scooper
This hands-on, inquiry based lesson is an extension of the AMSTI Science Module, Solids and Liquids. Students use nonstandard units to measure beans in a soup mix. Students predict how many beans will be in a scoop. Students group beans...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Surface Area of Pyramids and Cones
For this inquiry-based lesson, students will discover the formulas for the surface area of pyramids and cones. This lesson plan was created by exemplary Alabama Math Teachers through the AMSTI project.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Geometric Mean and Indirect Measurement
In this inquiry-based lesson, students will work in groups to gather measurements needed to approximate the height of a building. Students will discover how geometric mean can be used to find the lengths of missing sides of right...