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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Environmental Engineering and Water Chemistry
"Overview: Students are introduced to the fundamentals of environmental engineering as well as the global air, land and water quality concerns facing today's environmental engineers. After a lesson and activity to introd...
Environmental Engineering
"Overview: In this unit, students explore the various roles of environmental engineers, including: environmental cleanup, water quality, groundwater resources, surface water and groundwater flow, water contamination, was...
Environmental Challenges in China: From Rural Villages to Big Cities
"Overview: Students learn about the wonderful and fascinating country of China, and its environmental challenges that require engineering solutions, many in the form of increased energy efficiency, the incorporation of r...
Engineers Speak for the Trees
"Overview: Students begin by reading Dr. Seuss' ""The Lorax"" as an example of how overdevelopment can cause long-lasting environmental destruction. Students discuss how to balance the needs of the environment with the n...
Engineers Love Pizza, Too!
"Overview: In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design an assistive eating device for a client. More specifically, they design a prototype device to...
Engineering the Heart: Heart Valves
"Overview: Students learn how healthy human heart valves function and the different diseases that can affect heart valves. They also learn about devices and procedures that biomedical engineers have designed to help peop...
Energy Systems
"Overview: Posters are provided for several different energy conversion systems. Students are provided with cards that give the name and a description of each of the components in an energy system. They match these with...
Energy Storage Derby and Proposal
"Overview: In Activity 5, as part of the Going Public step, students demonstrate their knowledge of how potential energy may be transferred into kinetic energy. Students design, build and test vehicle prototypes that tra...
Energy Sources Research
"Overview: Fact sheets are provided for several different energy resources as a starting point for students to conduct literature research on the way these systems work and their various pros and cons. Students complete...
Energy Skate Park
"Overview: Students experiment with an online virtual laboratory set at a skate park. They make predictions of graphs before they use the simulation to create graphs of energy vs. time under different conditions. This si...
Energy Resources and Systems
"Overview: Several activities are included to teach and research the differences between renewable and non-renewable resources and various energy resources. The students work with a quantitative, but simple model of ener...
Engineering in Sports
"Overview: Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an assoc...
The Energy Problem
"Overview: This six-day lesson provides students with an introduction to the importance of energy in their lives and the need to consider how and why we consume the energy we do. The lesson includes activities to engage...
Energy Perspectives
"Overview: Students utilize data tables culled from the US DOE Energy Information Agency to create graphs that illustrate what types of energy we use and how we use it. An MS Excel workbook with several spreadsheets of d...
Engineering for the Three Little Pigs
"Overview: The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the importance of rocks, soils and minerals in engineering and how using the right material for the right job is important. The students build three different san...
Energy Intelligence Agency
"Overview: In an active way, students discover a few critical facts about how we use energy and how much energy we use. Each student has a ""clue,"" some of which are pertinent energy facts and others are silly statement...
Engineering and the Periodic Table
"Overview: Students learn about the periodic table and how pervasive the elements are in our daily lives. After reviewing the table organization and facts about the first 20 elements, they play an element identification...
Energy Forms and States Demonstrations
"Overview: Demonstrations explain the concepts of energy forms (sound, chemical, radiant [light], electrical, atomic [nuclear], mechanical, thermal [heat]) and states (potential, kinetic). Subject: Engineering, Physics...
Engineering and the Human Body
"Overview: This unit covers the broad spectrum of topics that make-up our very amazing human body. Students are introduced to the space environment and learn the major differences between the environment on Earth and tha...
Energy-Efficient Housing
"Overview: We all know that it takes energy to provide us with the basics of shelter: heating, cooling, lighting, electricity, sanitation and cooking. To create energy-efficient housing that is practical for people to us...