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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Spool Racer Design & Competition
"Overview: Students see how potential energy (stored energy) can be converted into kinetic energy (motion). Acting as if they were engineers designing vehicles, they use rubber bands, pencils and spools to explore how el...
Splash, Pop, Fizz: Rube Goldberg Machines
"Overview: Refreshed with an understanding of the six simple machines; screw, wedge, pully, incline plane, wheel and axle, and lever, student groups receive materials and an allotted amount of time to act as mechanical e...
Spectroscopy
"Overview: Students learn how using spectrographs helps people understand the composition of light sources. Using simple materials including holographic diffraction gratings, students create and customize their own spect...
A Spectral Mystery
"Overview: Students use the spectrographs from the ""Building a Fancy Spectrograph"" activity to gather data about light sources. Using their data, they make comparisons between different light sources and make conjectur...
Spaced Out
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to the space environment. It covers the major differences between the environment on Earth and that of outer space and the engineering challenges that arise because of these dis...
Spacecraft Design: Beat the Heat
"Overview: To understand the challenges of satellite construction, student teams design and create model spacecraft to protect vital components from the harsh conditions found on Mercury and Venus. They use slices of but...
Space Shelter
"Overview: Students are given the following engineering challenge: ""The invasion has taken place and we need to find a new home. To ensure your survival beyond Earth's occupation you must design a shelter that can be bu...
Sounds Like Music
"Overview: Music can loosely be defined as organized sound. The lesson objectives, understanding sound is a form of energy, understanding pitch, understanding sound traveling through a medium, and being able to separate...
Sounds All Around
"Overview: Students follow the steps of the engineering design process to create their own ear trumpet devices (used before modern-day hearing aids), including testing them with a set of reproducible sounds. They learn t...
Sound from Left or Right?
"Overview: Why do humans have two ears? How do the properties of sound help with directional hearing? Students learn about directional hearing and how our brains determine the direction of sounds by the difference in tim...
Sound for Sight
"Overview: Echolocation is the ability to orient by transmitting sound and receiving echoes from objects in the environment. As a result of a Marco-Polo type activity and subsequent lesson, students learn basic concepts...
Sound and Light
"Overview: Students are provided with an understanding of sound and light waves through a ""sunken treasure"" theme a continuous storyline throughout the lessons. In the first five lessons, students learn about sound, an...
Sound Visualization Stations
"Overview: Students learn about sound and sound energy as they gather evidence that sound travels in waves. Teams work through five activity stations that provide different perspectives on how sound can be seen and felt....
Sound Line
"Overview: Students learn the decibel reading of various noises and why high-level readings damage hearing. Sound types and decibel readings are written on sheets of paper, and students arrange the sounds from the lowest...
Sound Environment Shapers
"Overview: Students are introduced to the sound environment as an important aspect of a room or building. Several examples of acoustical engineering design for varied environments are presented. Students learn the connec...
Solving Energy Problems
"Overview: The culminating energy project is introduced and the technical problem solving process is applied to get students started on the project. By the end of the class, students should have a good perspective on wha...
Solid Waste Takes Over
"Overview: In this lesson, students explore solid waste and its effects on the environment. They will collect classroom trash for analysis and build model landfills in order to understand the process and impact of solid...
Solid Rock to Building Block
"Overview: Students continue their pyramid building journey, acting as engineers to determine the appropriate wedge tool to best extract rock from a quarry and cut into pyramid blocks. Using sample materials (wax, soap,...
Solid, Liquid or Gas?
"Overview: Students are given a variety of materials and asked to identify each material as a solid, liquid or gas. They use their five senses ŰÓ sight, sound, smell, texture and taste ŰÓ to identify the other characte...
Solar Water: Heat it Up!
"Overview: Students explore energy efficiency, focusing on renewable energy, by designing and building flat-plate solar water heaters. They apply their understanding of the three forms of heat transfer (conduction, conve...