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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Sensors and Scatterplots
"Overview: Students are introduced to several types of common medical sensor devices, such as ear and forehead thermometers, glucometers and wrist blood pressure monitors; they use the latter to measure their blood press...
Sensing Air Pollution
"Overview: Students learn about electricity and air pollution while building devices to measure volatile organic compounds (VOC) by attaching VOC sensors to prototyping boards. In the second part of the activity, student...
Selectively Permeable Membranes
"Overview: Students learn that engineers develop different polymers to serve various functions and are introduced to selectively permeable membranes. In a warm-up activity, they construct models of selectively permeable...
Seismology in the Classroom
"Overview: Students learn about seismology by using a sample seismograph constructed out of common classroom materials. The seismograph creates a seismogram based on vibrations caused by moving a ruler. The students work...
Seismic Waves: How Earthquakes Move the Earth
"Overview: Students learn about the types of seismic waves produced by earthquakes and how they move the Earth. The dangers of earthquakes are presented as well as the necessity for engineers to design structures for ear...
See the Genes
"Overview: Through this concluding lesson and its associated activity, students experience one valuable and often overlooked skill of successful scientists and engineers communicating your work and ideas. They explore th...
Seeing the World through a Different Lens
"Overview: Students participate in a variety of activities modeling different disabilities. They gain a better understanding of physical limitations while performing tasks at workstations without the use of their thumbs...
Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
"Overview: Students examine the existence of sound by listening to and seeing sound waves while conducting a set of simple activities as a class or in pairs at stations. Students describe sound in terms of its pitch, vol...
Seeing All Sides: Orthographic Drawing
"Overview: Students learn how to create two-dimensional representations of three-dimensional objects by utilizing orthographic projection techniques. They build shapes using cube blocks and then draw orthographic and iso...
Plumbing the Deep - Using Sound Waves to See
"Overview: In this lesson, students learn about echolocation: what it is and how engineers use it to ""see"" things in the dark, or deep underwater. Also, they learn how animals use echolocation to catch their dinner and...
Security System Design
"Overview: Students apply everything they have learned about light properties and laser technologies to designing, constructing and presenting laser-based security systems that protect the school's mummified troll. In th...
Sea to Sky
"Overview: In this lesson, students learn about major landforms (e.g., mountains, rivers, plains, valleys, canyons and plateaus) and how they occur on the Earth's surface. They learn about the civil and geotechnical engi...
Plot Your Course - Navigation
"Overview: In this unit, students learn the very basics of navigation, including the different kinds of navigation and their purposes. The concepts of relative and absolute location, latitude, longitude and cardinal dire...
The Search for Surfactants: What Is the Best Soap?
"Overview: Student teams are challenged to evaluate the design of several liquid soaps to answer the question, “Which soap is the best?” Through two simple teacher class demonstrations and the activity investigation, stu...
The Plastic Test
"Overview: After a brief history of plastics, students look more closely as some examples from the abundant types of plastics found in our day-to-day lives. They are introduced to the mechanical properties of plastics, i...
The Search for Secret Agents
"Overview: Students embark on a scavenger hunt around the school looking for indoor air pollution and mapping source locations. Subject: Engineering, Environmental Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School Grades: Gra...
The Science of Swinging
"Overview: Students learn what a pendulum is and how it works in the context of amusement park rides. While exploring the physics of pendulums, they are also introduced to Newton's first law of motion about continuous mo...
Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
"Overview: What do plants need? Students examine the effects of light and air on green plants, learning the processes of photosynthesis and transpiration. Student teams plant seeds, placing some in sunlight and others in...
Scale Model of the Earth
"Overview: Students gain an understanding of the layers of the Earth by designing and building clay models. Subject: Engineering, Geology Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5 Material Type: Activity/La...
Saving a Life: Heart Valve Replacement
"Overview: Students use their knowledge about how healthy heart valves function to design, construct and implant prototype replacement mitral valves for hypothetical patients' hearts. Building on what they learned in the...