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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Let's Get Breezy!
"Overview: With the assistance of a few teacher demonstrations (online animation, using a radiometer and rubbing hands), students review the concept of heat transfer through convection, conduction and radiation. Then the...
Let’s Build an Aqueduct!
"Overview: Students explore in detail how the Romans built aqueducts using arches—and the geometry involved in doing so. Building on what they learned in the associated lesson about how innovative Roman arches enabled th...
Let's Bag It
"Overview: Students observe and discuss a vacuum cleaner model of a baghouse to better understand how this pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution. Subject: Engineering, Atmospheric Scie...
Let Your Ears Do the Walking
"Overview: Students experience a simulation of echolation, using the sensory method to walk along a path while blindfolded. This relates to the issue of bycatching by fisheries, which they learned about in the associated...
Lending a Hand: Teaching Forces through Assistive Device Design
"Overview: Students learn about how biomedical engineers create assistive devices for persons with fine motor skill disabilities. They learn about types of forces, balanced and unbalanced forces, and the relationship bet...
Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
"Overview: In this lesson, students discover the entire process that goes into designing a rocket for any customer. In prior lessons, students learned how rockets work, but now they learn what real-world decisions engine...
Learning Light's Properties
"Overview: Students learn the basic properties of light the concepts of light absorption, transmission, reflection and refraction, as well as the behavior of light during interference. Lecture information briefly address...
Learning Imaging Techniques!
"Overview: During this activity, students will be introduced to the concepts of the challenge. They will generate ideas for solving the grand challenge first independently, then in small groups. Finally, as a class, stud...
Leaning Tower of Pasta
"Overview: Using spaghetti and marshmallows, students experiment with different structures to determine which ones are able to handle the greatest amount of load. Their experiments help them to further understand the eff...
Launch into Learning: Catapults!
"Overview: Students learn about catapults, including the science and math concepts behind them, as they prepare for the associated activity in which they design, build and test their own catapults. They learn about force...
Latex and Hybrids: What's the Connection?
"Overview: Students gain perspective on the intended purpose of hydraulic accumulators and why they might be the next best innovation for hybrid passenger vehicles. They learn about how hydraulic accumulators and hydraul...
Laser Types and Uses
"Overview: Through two classroom demos, students are introduced to the basic properties of lasers through various mediums. In the Making an Electric Pickle demonstration, students see how cellular tissue is able to condu...
Laser Light Properties: Protecting the Mummified Troll!
"Overview: Students learn and use the properties of light to solve the following challenge: ""A mummified troll was discovered this summer at our school and it has generated lots of interest worldwide. The principal aske...
Land on the Run
"Overview: Students learn about landslides, discovering that there are different types of landslides that occur at different speeds from very slow to very quick. All landslides are the result of gravity, friction and the...
Landfills: Building Them Better
"Overview: Waste disposal has been an ongoing problem since medieval times. Environmental engineers are employed to develop technologies to dispose of the enormous amount of trash produced in the United States. In this l...
Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
"Overview: In this lesson, students are introduced to both potential energy and kinetic energy as forms of mechanical energy. A hands-on activity demonstrates how potential energy can change into kinetic energy by swingi...
Kidney Stone Crystallization
"Overview: Students learn how crystallization and inhibition occur by examining calcium oxalate crystals with and without inhibitors that are capable of altering crystallization. Kidney stones are composed of calcium oxa...
Kidney Filtering
"Overview: In this activity, students filter different substances through a plastic window screen, different sized hardware cloth and poultry netting. Their model shows how the thickness of a filter in the kidney is impe...
Keeping Our Roads Smooth
"Overview: Students learn how roadways are designed and constructed, and discuss the advantages and limitations of the current roadway construction process. They look at current practices of roadway monitoring, discuss t...
Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites
"Overview: How do we communicate with each other? How do we communicate with people who are close by? How do we communicate with people who are far away? In this lesson, students will explore the role of communications a...