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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Fascinating Friction!
"Overview: Students use wood, wax paper and oil to investigate the importance of lubrication between materials and to understand the concept of friction. Using wax paper and oil placed between pieces of wood, the functio...
Fantastic Fossils
"Overview: Students learn about fossils what they are, how they are formed, and why scientists and engineers care about them. Subject: Engineering, Archaeology Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8 Mate...
Fancy Feet
"Overview: Students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem shoe engineering! Working in small teams, they design, build and test a pair of wearable platform or high-heeled shoes, taking into con...
Falling Water
"Overview: Students drop water from different heights to demonstrate the conversion of water's potential energy to kinetic energy. They see how varying the height from which water is dropped affects the splash size. They...
Factors Affecting Friction
"Overview: Based on what they have already learned about friction, students formulate hypotheses concerning the effects of weight and contact area on the amount of friction between two surfaces. In the Associated Activit...
Extinction Prevention via Engineering
"Overview: Species extinction is happening at an alarming rate according to scientists. In this lesson, students are asked to consider why extinction is a problem that we should concern us. They are taught that destructi...
Exploring the Lotus Effect
"Overview: Students test and observe the ""self-cleaning"" lotus effect using a lotus leaf and cloth treated with a synthetic lotus-like superhydrophobic coating. They also observe the Wenzel and Cassie Baxter wetting st...
Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum
"Overview: Students learn the basics of the electromagnetic spectrum and how various types of electromagnetic waves are related in terms of wavelength and energy. In addition, they are introduced to the various types of...
Exploring Energy: Kinetic and Potential
"Overview: Students learn about kinetic and potential energy, including various types of potential energy: chemical, gravitational, elastic and thermal energy. They identify everyday examples of these energy types, as we...
Exploring Energy: Energy Conversion
"Overview: Students are introduced to the concept of energy conversion, and how energy transfers from one form, place or object to another. They learn that energy transfers can take the form of force, electricity, light,...
Exploring Energy
"Overview: Students learn about energy, kinetic energy, potential energy, and energy transfer through a series of three lessons and three activities. They learn that energy can be neither created nor destroyed and that r...
Exploring Capillary Action
"Overview: Students observe multiple examples of capillary action. First they observe the shape of a glass-water meniscus and explain its shape in terms of the adhesive attraction of the water to the glass. Then they stu...
Exploring Acceleration with an Android
"Overview: Students conduct an experiment to study the acceleration of a mobile Android device. During the experiment, they run an application created with MIT's App Inventor that monitors linear acceleration in one-dime...
Evolving TCE Biodegraders
"Overview: A hypothetical scenario is introduced in which the class is asked to apply their understanding of the forces that drive natural selection to prepare a proposal along with an environmental consulting company to...
Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
"Overview: Simple machines are devices with few or no moving parts that make work easier, and which people have used to provide mechanical advantage for thousands of years. Students learn about the wedge, wheel and axle,...
Estimating the Storage Capacity of a CD/DVD
"Overview: Students estimate the storage capacity of CDs and DVDs by assessing diffraction patterns of green and red laser beams. Subject: Engineering, Electronic Technology Level: High School Grades: Grade 11, Grade 12...
Everyday Polymers
"Overview: Students explore the chemical identities of polymeric materials frequently used in their everyday lives. They learn how chemical composition affects the physical properties of the materials that they encounter...
Environments and Ecosystems
"Overview: Students explore the biosphere and its associated environments and ecosystems in the context of creating a model ecosystem, learning along the way about the animals and resources. Students investigate differen...
Environmental Interactions
"Overview: In this activity, students create a ""web"" to identify and demonstrate the interactions among the living and non-living parts of an environment. This information allows students to better understand what an e...
Environmental History Timeline
"Overview: Students develop critical thinking skills by interviewing a person who has perspective on environmental history. Students explore the concept of a timeline, including historical milestones, and develop a sense...