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 Outer Planets
"Overview: Students explore the outermost planets of our solar system: Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. They also learn about characteristics of Pluto and its interactions with Neptune. Students learn a little about the histo...
Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
"Overview: This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, students depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a Microsoft Excel® graph. In addition, student...
Red Cabbage Chemistry
"Overview: Students take advantage of the natural ability of red cabbage juice to perform as a pH indicator to test the pH of seven common household liquids. Then they evaluate the accuracy of the red cabbage indicator,...
Preconditioning Balloons
"Overview: Students use balloons (a polymer) to explore preconditioning a viscoelastic material behavior that is important to understand when designing biomedical devices. They improve their understanding of precondition...
Recycled Towers
"Overview: Students learn about material reuse by designing and building the strongest and tallest towers they can, using only recycled materials. They follow design constraints and build their towers to withstand earthq...
Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors
Our Bodies Have Computers and Sensors
Power to the People
"Overview: Students read and evaluate descriptions of how people live ""off the grid"" using solar power and come to understand better the degree to which that lifestyle is or is not truly independent of technological, e...
A Recipe for Air
"Overview: Why do we care about air? Breathe in, breathe out, breathe in... most, if not all, humans do this automatically. Do we really know what is in the air we breathe? In this activity, students use M&M(TM) candies...
Our Big Blue Marble
"Overview: Students are introduced to the fabulous planet on which they live. Even though we spend our entire lives on Earth, we still do not always understand how it fits into the rest of the solar system. Students lear...
Rebuilding Soil with Biochar
"Overview: Students learn about soil properties and the effect biochar—charcoal used as a soil amendment—has on three soil types, sand, loam and clay. They test the soils’ water retention capability before and after the...
The Power of Mechanical Advantage
"Overview: Students learn about the mechanical advantage offered by pulleys in an interactive and game-like manner. By virtue of the activity's mechatronic presentation, they learn to study a mechanical system not as a s...
Ready to Erupt!
"Overview: Students observe an in-classroom visual representation of a volcanic eruption. The water-powered volcano demonstration is made in advance, using sand, hoses and a waterballoon, representing the main components...
The Power of Food
"Overview: Students imagine they are stranded on an island and must create the brightest light possible with the meager supplies they have on hand in order to gain the attention of a rescue airplane. In small groups, stu...
Our Amazing Skeleton
"Overview: This lesson covers the topic of human bones and joints. Students learn about the skeleton, the number of and types of bones in the body, and how outer space affects astronauts' bones. Students also learn how t...
Ready, Set, Escape
"Overview: Students are asked to design simple yet accurate timing devices using limited supplies. The challenge is to create a device that measures out a time period of exactly three minutes in order to enable a hypothe...
Powering the U.S.
"Overview: This lesson provides students with an overview of the electric power industry in the United States. Students also become familiar with the environmental impacts associated with a variety of energy sources. Su...
Our Amazing, Powerful Sun
"Overview: The purpose of this lesson is to introduce the students to the Sun. They explore various aspects of the Sun including its composition, its interior workings, and its relationship to the Earth. Subject: Engine...
Reaction Exposed: The Big Chill!
"Overview: Students investigate the endothermic reaction involving citric acid, sodium bicarbonate and water to produce carbon dioxide, water and sodium citrate. In the presence of water [H2O], citric acid [C6H8O7] and s...
Ranking the Rocks
"Overview: Student teams assign importance factors, called ""desirability points,"" the rock properties found in the previous lesson/activity in order to mathematically determine the overall best rocks for building caver...
The Other Water Cycle
"Overview: For students that have already been introduced to the water cycle this lesson is intended as a logical follow-up. Students will learn about human impacts on the water cycle that create a pathway for pollutants...