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Ei E: Marvelous Machines: Making Work Easier Lesson 3 Part 3
Students use simple machines and spring scales to determine how much force is needed to move a standard load and think about the ergonomics of using each machine. [12:49]
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Ei E: Marvelous Machines: Making Work Easier Lesson 3 Part 2
Students use simple machines and spring scales to determine how much force is needed to move a standard load and think about the ergonomics of using each machine. [8:41]
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Ei E: Marvelous Machines: Making Work Easier Lesson 3 Part 1
Students use simple machines and spring scales to determine how much force is needed to move a standard load and think about the ergonomics of using each machine. [15:28]
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Ei E: Assembly Lines
Students think like industrial engineers as they compare the advantages and disadvantages of making a product independently with making a product in an assembly line.
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Ei E: Marvelous Machines: Making Work Easier Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Aisha, a girl from Boston, Massachusetts, learns about industrial engineering as she designs her own factory subsystem. [9:37]
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Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 4
Students apply their knowledge of solids, liquids, mixtures, and chemical engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve a play dough making process. [11:34]
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Ei E: All Mixed Up
Students create their own rubric for high-quality and low-quality play dough and perform controlled experiments to identify properties of play dough ingredient mixtures.
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Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 2
Students think like chemical engineers as they perform product research related to a new juice being created by the Creative Juices Company. [10:36]
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Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 4
Students apply their knowledge of solids, liquids, mixtures, and chemical engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve a play dough making process. [12:52]
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Ei E: All Mixed Up
Students create their own rubric for high-quality and low-quality play dough and perform controlled experiments to identify properties of play dough ingredient mixtures.
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Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 3
Students create their own rubric for high-quality and low-quality play dough and perform controlled experiments to identify properties of play dough ingredient mixtures. [12:23]
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Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Michelle, a girl from Canada, learns about chemical engineering as she attempts to design a play dough making process to share with her hockey teammates. [13:46]
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Ei E: Designing a Plant Package
Students focus on the package engineering problem of meeting the needs of a plant product and the consumer as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own plant packages.
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 3 Part 2
Evaluating Needs and Creating Criteria: Students determine the needs of the plant and the consumer for which they are designing their plant packages. [9:57]
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 2
Students think like packaging engineers as they examine and identify the functions of a wide variety of packages. [12:10]
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Fadil, a boy from Jordan, learns about package engineering as he designs his own plant package. [10:14]
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Ei E: Designing a Plant Package
Students focus on the package engineering problem of meeting the needs of a plant product and the consumer as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own plant packages.
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 3 Part 2
Students determine the needs of the plant and the consumer for which they are designing their plant packages. [12:18]
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 2
Students think like packaging engineers as they examine and identify the functions of a wide variety of packages. [14:22]
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Ei E: Thinking Inside the Box: Designing Plant Packages Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Fadil, a boy from Jordan, learns about package engineering as he designs his own plant package. [13:10]
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Ei E: Designing a Parachute
Students apply their knowledge of air resistance and aerospace engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own parachutes.
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Ei E: A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Lesson 3
Students learn about air resistance and test three isolated variables used in the design of parachutes. [11:42]
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Ei E: A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Paulo, a boy from Brazil, learns about aerospace engineering as he designs his own parachute. [10:34]
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Ei E: Designing a Parachute (2)
Students apply their knowledge of air resistance and aerospace engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own parachutes.