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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Natural and Urban "Stormwater" Water Cycles
"Overview: Through an overview of the components of the hydrologic cycle and the important roles they play in the design of engineered systems, students' awareness of the world's limited fresh water resources is heighten...
Natural and Urban "Stormwater" Water Cycle Models
"Overview: Students apply their understanding of the natural water cycle and the urban ""stormwater"" water cycle, as well as the processes involved in both cycles to hypothesize how the flow of water is affected by alte...
Nanotechnology and Cancer Treatments
"Overview: Students learn about the biomedical use of nanoparticles in the detection and treatment of cancer, including the use of quantum dots and lasers that heat-activate nanoparticles. They also learn about electroph...
Nanotechnology Grant Proposal Writing
"Overview: Students apply the knowledge gained from the previous lessons and activities in this unit to write draft grant proposals to the U.S. National Institutes of Health outlining their ideas for proposed research us...
NanoTech: Insights into a Nano-Sized World
"Overview: Through two lessons and four activities, students learn about nanotechnology, its extreme smallness, and its vast and growing applications in our world. Embedded within the unit is a broader introduction to th...
Name That Metal!
"Overview: Given an assortment of unknown metals to identify, student pairs consider what unique intrinsic (aka intensive) metal properties (such as density, viscosity, boiling or melting point) could be tested. For the...
Naked Egg Drop
"Overview: Student pairs experience the iterative engineering design process as they design, build, test and improve catching devices to prevent a ""naked"" egg from breaking when dropped from increasing heights. To supp...
My Moon Colony
"Overview: Students are introduced to the futuristic concept of the moon as a place people can inhabit. They brainstorm what people would need to live on the moon and then design a fantastic Moon colony and decide how to...
My Mechanical Ear Can Hear!
"Overview: Students are introduced to various types of hearing impairments and the types of biomedical devices that engineers have designed to aid people with this physical disability. Subject: Engineering, Electronic T...
Mutations
"Overview: Students learn about mutations to both DNA and chromosomes, and uncontrolled changes to the genetic code. They are introduced to small-scale mutations (substitutions, deletions and insertions) and large-scale...
Mutation Telephone
"Overview: Students perform an activity similar to the childhood “telephone” game in which each communication step represents a biological process related to the passage of DNA from one cell to another. This game tangibl...
Music by Touch
"Overview: Students' understanding of how robotic touch sensors work is reinforced through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT intelligent bricks, motors and touch sensors. They learn programmin...
Muscles, Oh My!
"Overview: Students are introduced to the field of biomechanics and how the muscular system produces human movement. They learn the importance of the muscular system in our daily lives, why it is important to be able to...
Muscles, Muscles Everywhere
"Overview: This activity helps students learn about the three different types of muscles and how outer space affects astronauts' muscles. They will discover how important it is for astronauts to get adequate exercise bot...
The Mummified Troll: Devising a Protection Plan
"Overview: Students are introduced to the parameters of an engineering challenge in which their principal has asked them to devise an invisible security system to cost-effectively protect a treasured mummified troll, whi...
Moving without Wheels
"Overview: In a class demonstration, students observe a simple water cycle model to better understand its role in pollutant transport. This activity shows one way in which pollution is affected by the water cycle; it sim...
Movement Task Using Sensors - Humans and Robots
"Overview: This activity helps students understand the significance of programming and also how the LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robot's sensors assist its movement and make programming easier. Students compare human senses t...
Move Your Muscles!
"Overview: This lesson covers the topic of muscles. Students learn about the three different types of muscles in the human body and the effects of microgravity on muscles. Students also learn how astronauts need to exerc...
Move It!
"Overview: Mechanical energy is the most easily understood form of energy for students. When there is mechanical energy involved, something moves. Mechanical energy is a very important concept to understand. Engineers ne...
Moon Walk
"Overview: Students learn about the Earth's only natural satellite, the Moon. They discuss the Moon's surface features and human exploration. They also learn about how engineers develop technologies to study and explore...