Carnegie Mellon University
How Power Plants Work 2
For this second of three lessons on power plants, future engineers find out how we generate electricity and how coal-powered plants operate. They work in small groups to make electromagnet generators to light LED bulbs. A set of...
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Lava Field
Working in teams, groups of learners must collaborate to make their way across an imaginary lava field using foam tiles, carpet pieces, hula hoops, etc. This activity would be best if adapted to a larger facility or outdoors!
Mr. Jones's Science Class
Planet Presentation
Upper-elementary astronomers take on the role of interplanetary real estate salesmen. They research an assigned planet and create a PowerPoint to persuade the rest of the class to purchase property and move there. This fun project would...
International Technology Education Association
Launch a Frisbee into Orbit!
How fun it must be to play Frisbee in space! That is just what a NASA engineer gets to do, and you can learn how, too. Follow the instructions provided in this informational article to create your own satellite launcher. Afterward,...
Texas Education Agency (TEA)
Build a Paper Structure
Who knew that paper is an amazing building material? Scholars learn about the properties of planar materials, such as paper, as well as their structural capabilities in the sixth lesson a series of 11 on architecture. Working in groups,...
Curated OER
Activity Plan Mixed Ages: Community Cooperation
Students learn how members of communities work together. For this early childhood lesson plan, students explore their neighborhood and discover the people and places that comprise it.
Curated OER
Team Handball
Students continually move up in down the court in this team handball round robin tournament. In this PE lesson, students work as a team to successfully demonstrate and understanding of a team sport while working on hand eye coordination.
Curated OER
Group Foraging
Students explore co-operation by researching ocean life. In this fish science lesson, students identify many vocabulary terms associated with oceanography and discuss what group foraging means among fish. Students utilize paints and...
Curated OER
Team Players
Students examine a school to career website. They collect and collate data about careers from their own data collection. They determine which skills and abilities ensure successful teamwork. They research two careers that they come...
Curated OER
Behavior Code
Students develop codes to guide individual actions and responsibilities as members of the team. They explore memories, journal entries, etc. about
about teamwork. Through prompting questions, they translate these into a
draft behavior...
Curated OER
Encouraging Girls in Engineering
Use these lesson plans rich in teamwork, societal impact, and creativity to get girls excited about engineering!
Curated OER
Wahta (Maple) Project
Learners increase their knowledge base of the maple syrup process and increase their skills of organization, technology, research, teamwork-cooperation, and oral presentation. Students use a team approach to choose a topic pertaining to...
Curated OER
Great River Bend Adventure
Students use their imagination. They discuss the 4 C's of teamwork: Concentration, Communications, Coomperation, and Consideration. Students discuss the safety guidelines of the project. They complete a rope maze. The group walks...
Curated OER
Fly Swatter Spelling
Young scholars practice spelling words by swatting fake insects. In this vocabulary lesson plan, students participate in a spelling game in which teams must spell a word correctly one letter at a time. Young scholars may fix one...
Curated OER
Port Hole
Third graders work together to lift and pass each other through a tire. They simulate time travel and decide on an object they would take with them through the time portal. They reflect on their experiences and consider the importance of...
Curated OER
Physical Education: Games from Australia
Learners discover how to play Austrailian warmup games involving footballs. The activities, Steal the Footy, Pick Up, and Lanework, stress teamwork by students. The exercises are designed as warmups for Australian Rules football.
Curated OER
Folding Paper
Learners use the scientific process and their knowledge to obeserve, predict, and test their predictions under controlled conditions to verify their predictions and then make sense of these predictions. They also graph, write...
Curated OER
The Blob
Students practice team work and following directions. In this physical education lesson plan, students tag other students. Once a student is tagged, they join the student that tagged them. The game is over when the group of students...
Curated OER
Ants Moving an Apple (Coloring)
In this A words coloring learning exercise, students examine a drawing of a team of ants who are carrying an apple. Students color the picture.
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Rotational Equilibrium
Physics stars design mobiles that demonstrate rotational equilibrium. They take measurements and solve related equations for force by graphing, substitution, or determinants. This is a well-developed lesson plan, complete with student...
Curated OER
Modern Day Pyramids
Learners investigate the ways in which ancient technologies - six types of simple machines and combinations - are used to construct modern buildings. As they work together to solve a design problem (designing and building a modern...
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Ship the Chip
Here is a tasty challenge, especially for middle school engineers: design a container that meets mass and volume criteria, and will safely transport a tortilla or potato chip through the mail without damaging it! Mostly, this is a crisp...
Curated OER
Habitat Basics
First graders get out and explore two different habitats to examine how each one meets the needs of the plants and animals that dwell there. They discuss what they've learned about animal habitats as they explore the outdoor environment....
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Working with Watermills
In collaborative groups, emerging engineers or environmental scientists plan and construct a water wheel or watermill that rotates for a total of three minutes. Everything you need to carry out this instructional activity is included:...