TeachEngineering NGSS Aligned Records
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Hanging Around
"Overview: Students learn about weight by building a spring scale and observing how it responds to objects with different masses. Subject: Engineering, Physics Level: Upper Primary, Middle School Grades: Grade 5, Grade...
Homes for Different Climates
"Overview: Students learn about some of the different climate zones in China and consider what would be appropriate design, construction and materials for houses in those areas. This prepares them to conduct the associat...
Highlighting the Neuron
"Overview: In this lesson on the brain's neural networks, students investigate the structure and function of the neuron. They discover ways in which engineers apply this knowledge to the development of devices that can a...
Gumdrop Atoms
"Overview: Students use gumdrops and toothpicks to make lithium atom models. Using these models, they investigate the makeup of atoms, including their relative size. Students are then asked to form molecules out of atoms...
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's to the Mine We Go
"Overview: This activity simulates the extraction of limited, nonrenewable resources from a ""mine,"" so students can experience first-hand how resource extraction becomes more difficult over time. Students gather data a...
A Guide to Rain Garden Construction
"Overview: Students are presented with a guide to rain garden construction in an activity that culminates the unit and pulls together what they have learned and prepared in materials during the three previous associated...
Heredity Mix n Match
"Overview: Students randomly select jelly beans (or other candy) that represent genes for several human traits such as tongue-rolling ability and eye color. Then, working in pairs (preferably of mixed gender), students r...
Growing and Graphing
"Overview: Students visit second- and fourth-grade classes to measure the heights of older students using large building blocks as a non-standard unit of measure. They also measure adults in the school community. Results...
Here Comes the Hurricane! Saving Lives through Logical Reasoning and Computer Science
"Overview: Students use a hurricane tracking map to measure the distance from a specific latitude and longitude location of the eye of a hurricane to a city. Then they use the map's scale factor to convert the distance t...
Grow Your Own Algae!
"Overview: Students discover how tiny microscopic plants can remove nutrients from polluted water. They also learn how to engineer a system to remove pollutants faster and faster by changing the environment for the algae...
Heavy Helicopters
"Overview: Students learn about weight and drag forces by making paper helicopters and measuring how adding more weight affects the time it takes for the helicopters to fall to the ground. Subject: Engineering, Physics...
Groundwater Detectives
"Overview: Student teams locate a contaminant spill in a hypothetical site by measuring the pH of soil samples. Then they predict the direction of groundwater flow using mathematical modeling. They also use the engineeri...
The Grid
"Overview: The class forms a ""Presidential Task Force"" for a week, empowered by the president to find answers and make recommendations concerning the future of the national power grid. Task force members conduct daily...
The Great Gravity Escape
"Overview: Students use water balloons and a length of string to understand how the force of gravity between two objects and the velocity of a spacecraft can balance to form an orbit. They see that when the velocity beco...
The Great Divide
"Overview: In this activity, students will use cookies to simulate the distribution of our nonrenewable resources (energy). Then, they will discuss how the world's growing population affects the fairness and effectivenes...
Greenewables
"Overview: Students form expert engineering teams working for the (fictional) alternative energy consulting firm, Greenewables, Inc. Each team specializes in a form of renewable energy used to generate electrical power:...
The Great Algae Race
"Overview: In a multi-week experiment, student groups gather data from the photobioreactors that they build to investigate growth conditions that make algae thrive best. Using plastic soda bottles, pond water and fish ta...
Gravity-Fed Water System for Developing Communities
"Overview: Students learn about water poverty and how water engineers can develop appropriate solutions to a problem that is plaguing nearly a sixth of the world's population. Students follow the engineering design proce...
Green Infrastructure and Low-Impact Development Technologies
"Overview: Students are introduced to innovative stormwater management strategies that are being used to restore the hydrology and water quality of urbanized areas to pre-development conditions. Collectively called green...
Graphing the Spread of Disease
"Overview: Students simulate disease transmission by collecting data based on their proximity to other students. One option for measuring proximity is by having Bluetooth devices ""discover"" each other. After data is co...