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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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
"Overview: The Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP) is an intriguing and publicized environmental problem. This swirling soup of trash up to 10 meters deep and just below the water surface is composed mainly of non-degrada...
Graphing the Rainbow
"Overview: Students are introduced to different ways of displaying visual spectra, including colored ""barcode"" spectra, like those produced by a diffraction grating, and line plots displaying intensity versus color, or...
The Grand Challenge: Fix the Hip Challenge
"Overview: This lesson introduces the Bone Module Grand Challenge question. Students are asked to write their initial responses to the question alone. They will then brainstorm ideas with one other student. Finally, the...
Grading Congestion
"Overview: Students construct a model roadway with congestion and apply their knowledge of level of service (LOS) to assign a grade to the road conditions. The roadway is simply a track outlined with cones or ropes with...
Go with the Flow
"Overview: Students gain an understanding of the difference between electrical conductors and insulators, and experience recognizing a conductor by its material properties. In a hands-on activity, students build a conduc...
Go with the Energy Flow
"Overview: Students learn about energy and nutrient flow in various biosphere climates and environments. They learn about herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, food chains and food webs, seeing the interdependence between p...
Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
"Overview: Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own d...
Got Dirty Air?
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to the concepts of air pollution and technologies that have been developed by engineers to reduce air pollution. Students develop an understanding of visible air pollutants with...
The Good, the Bad and the Electromagnet
"Overview: Using plastic straws, wire, batteries and iron nails, student teams build and test two versions of electromagnets one with and one without an iron nail at its core. They test each magnet's ability pick up loos...
Good News â We're on the Rise!
"Overview: Students build and observe a simple aneroid barometer to learn about changes in barometric pressure and weather forecasting. Subject: Engineering, Atmospheric Science Level: Upper Primary, Middle School Grade...
Gone with the Wind - Sail Cars!
"Overview: Students explore the use of wind power in the design, construction and testing of ""sail cars,"" which, in this case, are little wheeled carts with masts and sails that are powered by the moving air generated...
Glowing Flowers
"Overview: Student teams learn about engineering design of green fluorescent proteins (GFPs) and their use in medical research, including stem cell research. They simulate the use of GFPs by adding fluorescent dye to wat...
Global Climate Change Lesson
"Overview: Students learn how the greenhouse effect is related to global warming and how global warming impacts our planet, including global climate change. Extreme weather events, rising sea levels, and how we react to...
Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!
"Overview: This hands-on activity explores five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature). Students rotate through stations and model each type of erosion on rocks, soils and minerals. T...
Give An Inch, Take A Foot
"Overview: In this activity students practice measuring techniques by measuring different objects and distances around the classroom. They practice using different scales of measurement in metric units and estimation. S...
Get the Word Out at McDonalds!
"Overview: Students take part in a hypothetical scenario that challenges them to inform customers at a local restaurant of how their use and disposal of plastics relates/contributes to the Great Pacific garbage patch (GP...
Get in My Body: Drug Delivery
"Overview: Students are challenged to think as biomedical engineers and brainstorm ways to administer medication to a patient who is unable to swallow. They learn about the advantages and disadvantages of current drug de...
Get in Gear
"Overview: Students are introduced to gear transmissions and gear ratios using LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robots, gears and software. They discover how gears work and how they can be used to adjust a vehicle's power. Specif...
Get Your Motor Running
"Overview: Students investigate motors and electromagnets as they construct their own simple electric motors using batteries, magnets, paper clips and wire. Subject: Engineering, Electronic Technology Level: Upper Prima...
Get Your Charge Away from Me!
"Overview: This activity is an easy way to demonstrate the fundamental properties of polar and non-polar molecules (such as water and oil), how they interact, and the affect surfactants (such as soap) have on their inter...