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...
Category stem: Featured STEM Providers
Filter Resources
Use search, per-page, and sort options to refine resources in this collection.
-
Collection:
TeachEngineering NGSS Aligned Records -
Category Stem:
Featured STEM Providers
Forced to Fracture
"Overview: Students learn how forces affect the human skeletal system through fractures and why certain bones are more likely to break than others depending on their design and use in the body. They learn how engineers a...
For Your Eyes Only
"Overview: Air is one of Earth's most precious resources, and we need to take care of it in order to preserve the environment and protect human health. To this end, students develop their understanding of visible air pol...
Food Packaging
"Overview: This lesson focuses on how food packages are designed and made. Students will learn three of the main functions of a food package. They will learn what is necessary of the design and materials of a package to...
Food Chains and Food Webs - Balance within Natural Systems
"Overview: With a continued focus on the Sonoran Desert, students are introduced to the concepts of food chains and food webs through a PowerPoint® presentation. They learn the difference between producers and consumers...
Follow the Light
"Overview: Students' understanding of how robotic light sensors work is reinforced in a design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robots and light sensors. Working in pairs, students program LEGO robots to follo...
Flying with Style
"Overview: During the associated lesson, students have learned about Newton's three laws of motion and free-body diagrams and have identified the forces of thrust, drag and gravity. As students begin to understand the ph...
Flying T-Shirts
"Overview: During this engineering design/build project, students investigate many different solutions to a problem. Their design challenge is to find a way to get school t-shirts up into the stands during home sporting...
Floppy Heart Valves
"Overview: Students are presented with an engineering challenge that asks them to develop a material and model that can be used to test the properties of aortic valves without using real specimens. Developing material th...
Floodplain Modeling
"Overview: Students explore the impact of changing river volumes and different floodplain terrain in experimental trials with table top-sized riverbed models. The models are made using modeling clay in aluminum baking pa...
Flood Analysis
"Overview: Students learn how to use and graph real-world stream gage data to create event and annual hydrographs and calculate flood frequency statistics. Using an Excel spreadsheet of real-world event, annual and peak...
Floaters and Sinkers: Lesson
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to the important concept of density. The focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids, but students can also explore the densities of liquids and gases. Students d...
Floaters and Sinkers
"Overview: Students are introduced to the important concept of density with a focus is on the more easily understood densities of solids. Students use different methods to determine the densities of solid objects, includ...
Flame Test: Red, Green, Blue, Violet?
"Overview: To become familiar with the transfer of energy in the form of quantum, students perform flame tests, which is one way chemical engineers identify elements by observing the color emitted when placed in a flame....
Fish-Friendly Engineering
"Overview: Students further their understanding of the salmon life cycle and the human structures and actions that aid in the migration of fish around hydroelectric dams by playing an animated PowerPoint game involving a...
Find Your Own Direction
"Overview: Students create their own simple compasses using thread, needle and water in a bowl and learn how it works. Subject: Engineering, Education Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8 Material Type...
Filtering: Removing Noise from a Distress Signal
"Overview: Students learn the basic principles of filtering as well as how to apply digital filters to extract part of an audio signal by using an interactive online demo website. They apply this knowledge in order to is...
Filtering: Extracting What We Want from What We Have
"Overview: Filtering is the process of removing or separating the unwanted part of a mixture. In signal processing, filtering is specifically used to remove or extract part of a signal, and this can be accomplished using...
Fighting Back! (Lesson)
"Overview: This lesson describes the major components and functions of the immune system and the role of engineers in keeping the body healthy (e.g., vaccinations and antibiotics, among other things). This lesson also di...
Fence That Farmland!
"Overview: Students develop and solidify their understanding of the concept of ""perimeter"" as they engage in a portion of the civil engineering task of land surveying. Specifically, they measure and calculate the perim...
Faulty Movement
"Overview: In this activity, students are introduced to faults. They will learn about different kinds of faults and understand their relationship to earthquakes. The students will build cardboard models of the three diff...