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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Keep Spreading the News
"Overview: In this lesson, students develop an understanding of the critical role communication plays in an engineer's life. Students create products to communicate their learning about the engineering role in the enviro...
Keep It Moving! from Electrons to Electric Motors
"Overview: Students act as engineers to apply what they know about how circuits work in electrical/motorized devices to design their own battery-operated model motor vehicles with specific paramaters. They calculate the...
Keep It Hot!
"Overview: Student teams design insulated beverage bottles with the challenge to test them to determine which materials (and material thicknesses) work best at insulating hot water to keep it warm for as long as possible...
Just Plane Simple
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to three of the six simple machines used by many engineers. These machines include the inclined plane, the wedge and the screw. In general, engineers use the inclined plane to l...
Just Breathe Green: Measuring Transpiration Rates
"Overview: Through multi-trial experiments, students are able to see and measure something that is otherwise invisible to them seeing plants breathe. Student groups are given two small plants of native species and materi...
Just Breathe
"Overview: Students explore the inhalation/exhalation process that occurs in the lungs during respiration. Using everyday materials, each student team creates a model pair of lungs. Subject: Engineering, Anatomy/Physiol...
Journey to the Afterlife
"Overview: Student teams are challenged to design models of Egyptian funerary barges for the purpose of transporting mummies through the underworld to the afterlife. Planning the boat designs requires an understanding of...
I've Gotta Get Some Air
"Overview: Students identify types and sources of indoor air pollutants in their school and home environments. They evaluate actions that can be taken to reduce and prevent poor indoor air quality. In an associated liter...
It's all In the Package
"Overview: Students explore the concept of ""reducing"" solid waste and how it relates to product packaging and engineering advancements in packaging materials. They read about and evaluate the highly publicized packagin...
It's Tiggerific!
"Overview: Students investigate potential energy held within springs (elastic potential energy) as part of the Research and Revise step. Class begins with a video of spring shoes or bungee jumping. Then students move on...
It's Really Heating Up in Here!
"Overview: Student teams model the Earth's greenhouse effect using modeling clay, ice chunks, water, aluminum pie tins and plastic wrap. They observe and record what happens in this closed environment and discuss the imp...
It Burns!
"Overview: In this activity, students learn how to prevent exposure to the Sun's harmful ultraviolet rays. Students will systematically test various sunscreens to determine the relationship between spf (sun protection fa...
Issues, Issues Everywhere
"Overview: In this activity, students will learn to identify different opinions related to an issue as well as the things (information, values and beliefs) that influence those opinions. They will use an opinion spectrum...
Issues Awareness
"Overview: In this activity, students will conduct a survey to identify the environmental issues (in their community, their country and the world) for which people are concerned. They will tally and graph the results. Al...
Is That Natural?
"Overview: Students will brainstorm ways that they use and waste natural resources. Also, they will respond to some facts about population growth and how people use petroleum. Lastly, students will consider the different...
Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
"Overview: The goal of this activity is to understand how techniques of persuasion (including background, supporting evidence, storytelling and the call to action) are used to develop an argument for or against a topic....
Is It Shocking?
"Overview: To better understand electricity, students investigate the properties of materials based on their ability to dispel static electricity. They complete a lab worksheet, collect experimental data, and draw conclu...
Investigating Contact Angle
"Overview: Students observe how water acts differently when placed on hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces. They determine which coatings are best to cause surfaces to shed water quickly or reduce the ""fogging"" caused...
Invent a Backscratcher from Everyday Materials
"Overview: Being able to recognize a problem and design a potential solution is the first step in the development of new and useful products. In this activity, students create devices to get ""that pesky itch in the cent...
Intro to Engineering
"Overview: Students are introduced to the basic principles behind engineering and the types of engineering while learning about a popular topic - the Olympics. The involvement of engineering in modern sports is amazing a...