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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Solar System!
"Overview: An introduction to our solar system the planets, our Sun and Moon. To begin, students learn about the history and engineering of space travel. They make simple rockets to acquire a basic understanding Newton's...
Solar Sails: The Future of Space Travel
"Overview: Working as if they were engineers, students design and construct model solar sails made of aluminum foil to move cardboard tube satellites through “space” on a string. Working in teams, they follow the enginee...
Solar Power
"Overview: In this activity, students learn how engineers use solar energy to heat buildings by investigating the thermal storage properties of some common materials: sand, salt, water and shredded paper. Students then e...
Solar Angles and Tracking Systems
"Overview: Students learn about the daily and annual cycles of solar angles used in power calculations to maximize photovoltaic power generation. They gain an overview of solar tracking systems that improve PV panel effi...
Soil Investigations
"Overview: Students learn the basics about soil, including its formation, characteristics and importance. They are also introduced to soil profiles and how engineers conduct site investigations to learn about soil qualit...
Soil Core Sampling
"Overview: Students learn about one method used in environmental site assessments. They practice soil sampling by creating soil cores, studying soil profiles and characterizing soil profiles in borehole logs. They use th...
Soil Biosolarization: Using Food Waste and the Sun to Get Rid of Weeds in Soil
"Overview: Over the course of three sessions, students act as agricultural engineers and learn about the sustainable pest control technique known as soil biosolarization in which organic waste is used to help eliminate p...
Soap vs. Shampoo Surfactant Lab
"Overview: Students learn about the properties of solutions—such as ion interactions, surface tension and viscosity—as they make their own soap and shampoo and then compare their properties. Working as if they are chemic...
So What Is the Density?
"Overview: Students review what they know about the 20 major bones in the human body (names, shapes, functions, locations, as learned in the associated lesson) and the concept of density (mass per unit of volume). Then s...
Snow vs. Water
"Overview: Engineers work in many fields associated with precipitation. Engineers study glaciers to better understand their dates of formation and current demise. They deal with issues of pollution transport and water yi...
Sneaking Up on Sneakers
"Overview: Students explore why different types of sneakers are used in a variety of common sports, and how engineers analyze design needs in sneakers and many other everyday items. The goal is for students to understand...
Smoke and Mirrors
"Overview: Students develop a persuasive peer-to-peer case against smoking, with the goal to understand how language usage can influence perception, attitudes and behavior. Subject: Engineering, Health, Medicine and Nur...
Slow the Cylinder
"Overview: Students learn why shock absorbers are necessary on vehicles, how they dampen the action of springs, and what factors determine the amount of dampening. They conduct an experiment to determine the effect of sp...
Slinkies as Solenoids
"Overview: In this activity, students use an old fashion children's toy, a metal slinky, to mimic and understand the magnetic field generated in an MRI machine. The metal slinky mimics the magnetic field of a solenoid, w...
Slingshot to the Outer Planets
"Overview: Students are introduced to the engineering challenges involved with interplanetary space travel. In particular, they learn about the gravity assist or ""slingshot"" maneuver often used by engineers to send spa...
Sliding and Stuttering
"Overview: Students use a spring scale to drag an object such as a ceramic coffee cup along a table top or the floor. The spring scale allows them to measure the frictional force that exists between the moving cup and th...
Sliding Textbooks
"Overview: In the culminating activity of the unit, students explore and apply their knowledge of forces, friction, acceleration and gravity in a two-part experiment. First, student groups measure the average acceleratio...
Sliders (for High School)
"Overview: In this hands-on activity, students learn about two types of friction static and kinetic and the equation that governs them. They also measure the coefficient of static friction and the coefficient of kinetic...
Sliders
"Overview: Students learn about two types of friction static and kinetic and the equation that governs them. They also measure the coefficient of static friction experimentally. Subject: Engineering, Physics Level: Midd...
Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
"Overview: Students explore building a pyramid, learning about the simple machine called an inclined plane. They also learn about another simple machine, the screw, and how it is used as a lifting or fastening device. Du...