TeachEngineering NGSS Aligned Records
"Overview: The difference between an architect and an engineer is sometimes confusing because their roles in building design can be similar. Students experience a bit of both professions by following a set of requirements and meeting given constraints as they...
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The Strongest Strongholds
"Overview: Students work together in small groups, while competing with other teams, to explore the engineering design process through a tower building challenge. They are given a set of design constraints and then condu...
The Strongest Pump of All
"Overview: In this lesson the students will learn how the heart functions. Students will be introduced to the concept of action potential generation. The lesson will explain how action potential generation causes the ele...
Strong as the Weakest Link
"Overview: To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo compression and tension students examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building st...
String Telephones
"Overview: Students investigate how sound travels through string and air. First, they analyze the sound waves with a paper cup attached to a string. Then, they combine the string and cup with a partner to model a string...
Stressed and Strained
"Overview: Students are introduced to the concepts of stress and strain with examples that illustrate the characteristics and importance of these forces in our everyday lives. They explore the factors that affect stress,...
Strength of Materials
"Overview: Students learn about the variety of materials used by engineers in the design and construction of modern bridges. They also find out about the material properties important to bridge construction and consider...
Stream Consciousness
"Overview: During this activity, students will learn how environmental engineers monitor water quality in resource use and design. They will employ environmental indicators to assess the water quality of a nearby stream....
Strawkets and Weight
"Overview: In this activity, students investigate the effect that weight has on rocket flight. Students construct a variety of their own straw-launched rockets, or ""strawkets,"" that have different weights. Specifically...
Strawkets and Thrust
"Overview: In this activity, students investigate the effect that thrust has on rocket flight. Students will make two paper rockets that they can launch themselves by blowing through a straw. These ""strawkets"" will dif...
Strawkets and Control
"Overview: In this activity, students investigate the effect that fins have on rocket flight. Students construct two paper rockets that they can launch themselves by blowing through a straw. One ""strawket"" has wings an...
Straw Towers to the Moon
"Overview: Students learn about civil engineers and work through each step of the engineering design process in two mini-activities that prepare them for a culminating challenge to design and build the tallest straw towe...
Straw Bridges
"Overview: Working as engineering teams, students design and create model beam bridges using plastic drinking straws and tape as their construction materials. Their goal is to build the strongest bridge with a truss patt...
Stormy Skies
"Overview: Students learn that wind and storms can form at the boundaries of interacting high and low pressure air masses. They learn the distinguishing features of the four main types of weather fronts (warm fronts, col...
Stop Heat From Escaping
"Overview: In this activity, students act as engineers to determine which type of insulation would conserve the most energy. Subject: Architecture and Design, Engineering Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 3, Grade 4, G...
Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone!
"Overview: Students learn about the strength of bones and methods of helping to mend fractured bones. During a class demonstration, a chicken bone is broken by applying a load until it reaches a point of failure (fractur...
Statistical Analysis of Flexible Circuits
"Overview: Students are introduced to the technology of flexible circuits, some applications and the photolithography fabrication process. They are challenged to determine if the fabrication process results in a change i...
Stations of Light
"Overview: Student groups rotate through four stations to examine light energy behavior: refraction, magnification, prisms and polarization. They see how a beam of light is refracted (bent) through various transparent me...
Static Cling
"Overview: This hands-on activity explores the concept of static electricity. Students attract an O-shaped piece of cereal to a charged comb and watch the cereal jump away when it touches the comb. Students also observe...
Stack It Up!
"Overview: Students analyze and begin to design a pyramid. Working in engineering teams, they perform calculations to determine the area of the pyramid base, stone block volumes, and the number of blocks required for the...
The Squeeze Is On
"Overview: Through hands-on group projects, students learn about the force of compression and how it acts on structural components. Using everyday materials, such as paper, toothpicks and tape, they construct structures...