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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Ecology at Work
"Overview: Students learn how rooftop gardens help the environment and the lives of people, especially in urban areas. They gain an understanding of how plants reduce the urban heat island effect, improve air quality, pr...
Electromagnets
"Overview: In this activity, the students will complete the grand challenge and design an electromagnet to separate steel from aluminum for the recycler. In order to do this, students compare the induced magnetic field o...
Energy on a Roller Coaster
"Overview: This activity utilizes hands-on learning with the conservation of energy and the interaction of friction. Students use a roller coaster track and collect position data. The students then calculate velocity, an...
Electromagnetic Radiation
"Overview: Students are presented with a hypothetical scenario that delivers the unit's Grand Challenge Question: To apply an understanding of nanoparticles to treat, detect and protect against skin cancer. Towards findi...
Echolocation in Action!
"Overview: In this activity, students will experience echolocation themselves. They actually try echolocation by wearing blindfolds while another student makes snapping noises in front of, behind, or to the side of them....
The Energy of Music
"Overview: Students are introduced to sound energy concepts and how engineers use sound energy. Through hands-on activities and demonstrations, students examine how we know sound exists by listening to and seeing sound w...
Electrocardiograph Building
"Overview: Building on concepts taught in the associated lesson, students learn about bioelectricity, electrical circuits and biology as they use deductive and analytical thinking skills in connection with an engineering...
The Energy of Light
"Overview: In this introduction to light energy, students learn about reflection and refraction as they learn that light travels in wave form. Through hands-on activities, they see how prisms, magnifying glasses and pola...
Earthquakes Rock!
"Overview: Students learn the two main methods to measure earthquakes, the Richter Scale and the Mercalli Scale. They make a model of a seismograph a measuring device that records an earthquake on a seismogram. Students...
Electrifying the World
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to the fundamental concepts of electricity. This is accomplished by addressing questions such as ""How is electricity generated,"" and ""How is it used in every-day life?"" The...
Energy in Our Lives Carousel
"Overview: Students discover that they already know a lot about energy through their own life experiences. As active consumers of various forms of energy, they are aware of energy purchases for electricity, home heating/...
Electricity and Magnetic Fields
"Overview: The grand challenge for this legacy cycle unit is for students to design a way to help a recycler separate aluminum from steel scrap metal. In previous lessons, they have looked at how magnetism might be utili...
Earthquakes Living Lab: The Theory of Plate Tectonics
Earthquakes Living Lab: The Theory of Plate Tectonics
Energy and the Pogo Stick
"Overview: This activity utilizes hands on learning with the conservation of energy with the inclusion of elastic potential energy. Students use pogo sticks to experience the elastic potential energy and its conversion t...
The Electric and Magnetic Personalities of Mr. Maxwell
"Overview: Students are briefly introduced to Maxwell's equations and their significance to phenomena associated with electricity and magnetism. Basic concepts such as current, electricity and field lines are covered and...
Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments
"Overview: This lesson covers concepts of energy and energy transfer utilizing energy transfer in musical instruments as an example. More specifically, the lesson explains the two different ways in which energy can be tr...
Elasticity & Young's Modulus for Tissue Analysis
"Overview: As part of the engineering design process to create testable model heart valves, students learn about the forces at play in the human body to open and close aortic valves. They learn about blood flow forces, e...
Earthquakes Living Lab: Locating Earthquakes
"Overview: Students use U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) real-time, real-world seismic data from around the planet to identify where earthquakes occur and look for trends in earthquake activity. They explore where and why e...
Egg-cellent Landing
"Overview: The purpose of this activity is to recreate the classic egg-drop experiment with an analogy to the Mars rover landing. The concept of terminal velocity will be introduced, and students will perform several vel...
Earthquakes Living Lab: Geology and the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake
"Overview: Students examine the effects of geology on earthquake magnitudes and how engineers anticipate and prepare for these effects. Using information provided through the Earthquakes Living Lab interface, students in...