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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"Overview: Students use their knowledge of scales and areas to determine the best locations in Alabraska for the underground caverns. They cut out rectangular paper pieces to represent caverns to scale with the maps and...
Putting It All Together: Peripheral Vision
"Overview: In this culminating activity of the unit, students bring together everything they've learned in order to write the code to solve the Grand Challenge. The code solution takes two images captured by robots and c...
Population Growth in Yeasts
"Overview: Students follow the steps of the engineering design process while learning more about assistive devices and biomedical engineering applied to basic structural engineering concepts. Their engineering challenge...
One Path
"Overview: Students learn that charge movement through a circuit depends on the resistance and arrangement of the circuit components. In a hands-on activity, students build and investigate the characteristics of series c...
Puttin' It All Together
"Overview: On the topic of energy related to motion, this summary lesson is intended to tie together the concepts introduced in the previous four lessons and show how the concepts are interconnected in everyday applicati...
Population Growth Curves
"Overview: Using Avida-ED freeware, students control a few factors in an environment populated with digital organisms, and then compare how changing these factors affects population growth. They experiment by altering th...
Put a Spark in It! - Electricity
"Overview: Uncountable times every day with the merest flick of a finger each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity...
Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
"Overview: Students learn about population density within environments and ecosystems. They determine the density of a population and think about why population density and distribution information is useful to engineers...
Oil on the Ocean
"Overview: Students learn about oil spills and their environmental and economic effects. They experience the steps of the engineering design process as they brainstorm potential methods for oil spill clean-up, and then d...
Pop Rockets
"Overview: Students design and build paper rockets around film canisters, which serve as engines. An antacid tablet and water are put into each canister, reacting to form carbon dioxide gas, and acting as the pop rocket'...
Oil Spill
"Overview: This lesson will allow students to explore an important role of environmental engineers: cleaning the environment. Students will learn details about the Exxon Valdez oil spill, which was one of the most public...
Pollution Solutions
"Overview: To develop an understanding of modern industrial technologies that clean up and prevent air pollution, students build and observe a variety of simple models of engineering pollutant recovery methods: scrubber,...
Pollution Politics
Overview: Students learn how a bill becomes law in the U.S. Congress and research legislation related to global warming. Subject: Engineering, Environmental Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School Grades: Grade 4, Gr...
Off the Grid (Lesson)
"Overview: Students learn and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of renewable and non-renewable energy sources. They also learn about our nation's electric power grid and what it means for a residential home to be...
Polluted Air = Polluted Lungs
"Overview: To gain a better understanding of the roles and functions of components of the human respiratory system and our need for clean air, students construct model lungs that include a diaphragm and chest cavity. The...
Off-Road Wheelchair Challenge
"Overview: Students further their understanding of the engineering design process (EDP) while being introduced to assistive technology devices and biomedical engineering. They are given a fictional client statement and a...
Ocean Water Desalination
"Overview: Students learn about the techniques engineers have developed for changing ocean water into drinking water, including thermal and membrane desalination. They begin by reviewing the components of the natural wat...
Pointing at Maximum Power for PV
"Overview: Student teams measure voltage and current in order to determine the power output of a photovoltaic (PV) panel. They vary the resistance in a simple circuit connected to the panel to demonstrate the effects on...
Obi-Wan Adobe: Engineering for Strength
"Overview: Students conduct an experiment to determine how varying the composition of a construction material affects its strength. They make several adobe bricks with differing percentages of sand, soil, fibrous materia...
Not So Neutral Views
"Overview: Students are introduced to acids and bases, and the environmental problem of acid rain. They explore ways to use indicators to distinguish between acids and bases. Students also conduct a simple experiment to...