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Try Engineering: Heart of the Matter
Students learn about artificial heart valves and the engineering design process used in mechanical heart valve designs. The objective of the lesson is to develop an understanding of the interface between man and machine and the impact of...
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Try Engineering: Here Comes the Sun
Students work in teams to learn about solar panel design, simple circuits, and how solar energy is used to provide power to simple machines such as calculators.
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Try Engineering: Program Your Own Game
Teams of students learn about the work of software engineers as they design a simple computer game using free software available in multiple languages.
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Try Engineering: Engineered Sports
Students work in teams to investigate how aerospace engineering relates to sports, especially golf ball design and the physics of bounce. They use this information to determine whether these aerospace principles can be applied to...
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Try Engineering: Cast Your Vote
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a voting system made with everyday materials. The objective of the lesson plan is to learn how engineering has changed methods of voting over...
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Try Engineering: Nano Waterproofing
Lesson investigates the modification of a material at the nanoscale to enhance it with properties such as water and stain resistance.
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Try Engineering: Trebuchet Toss
A lesson through which young scholars design and build a small trebuchet from everyday materials. After building and testing their models, students will compete to see whose prototype produces the farthest launch.
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Try Engineering: Classroom Paper Recycling
Students learn about the engineering design process as they devlop their own recycled paper using everyday materials. The objective of the instructional activity is to learn how chemical engineers work in teams to develop and improve the...
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Try Engineering: Spring Scale Engineering
Learners learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a spring scale using everyday items that can measure the weight of an apple. The objective of the lesson is to explore how scales work and to learn about...
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Try Engineering: Tall Tower Challenge
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate the tallest tower they can build with just straws, pipe cleaners, and paperclips that can support the weight of a golf ball for two minutes....
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Try Engineering: Eeeek a Mouse!
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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Try Engineering: Questioneering Engineering Trivia Game
In this challenge, students test their knowledge of engineering and technology trivia.
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Try Engineering: Tinkering With Tops
Learners learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test spinning tops using everyday materials. The objective of the design is to have the top spin at least 10 seconds within a thirty centimeter diameter.
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Try Engineering: Can You Copperplate?
Chemical engineering lesson investigates the processes of chemical plating and electroplating. Teams of students work together to devise a chemical system for plating metal objects with copper, then test and evaluate their findings and...
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Try Engineering: Radio Reception and Transmission
Teams of young scholars learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a radio receiver and optional transmitter that can receive FM broadcasts. Lesson focuses on how advances in radio communications have...
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Try Engineering: Ets1 1 :Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge
Students learn about the engineering design process as they work in teams to design a process and a product to solve the Toxic Popcorn Challenge and save the city.
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Try Engineering: Engineered Music
Object of this lesson is to learn about the engineering design of musical instruments. Students work in teams to design and build their own "tunable" and unique instrument using everyday materials.
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Try Engineering: Filtration Investigation
Working in teams of "engineers", students learn about filtration systems and how they can remove impurities from drinking water.
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Try Engineering: Get It Write
Students learn about the engineering design process by working in teams to design and build a pen out of everyday materials that can deliver a controlled amount of ink to a sheet of paper.
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Try Engineering: Build a Big Wheel
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a big wheel or Ferris wheel made with pasta, glue, and teabags. The objective of the lesson is to explore how big wheels have been designed...
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Try Engineering: Conveyor Engineering
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, test, and evaluate a conveyor system made with everyday items than can move pieces of candy 4 feet including a 90 degree turn. The objective of the instructional...
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Try Engineering: Engineer a Dam
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a dam structure in a classroom water trough. The objective of the lesson is to learn about the different types of dams and to build one that has the...
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Try Engineering: Water Tower Challenge
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a water tower made with everyday items. The objective of the lesson is to work in teams to learn about water delivery systems and create one that will...
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Try Engineering: Smooth Operator
Students learn about the engineering design process as they design, construct, test, and evaluate surgical instruments using everyday materials. The objective of the design is to see how well they can perform a simulated "surgical...