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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Design a Solar City
"Overview: Students design and build a model city powered by the sun! They learn about the benefits of solar power, and how architectural and building engineers integrate photovoltaic panels into the design of buildings....
Design Step 4: Engineering Analysis
"Overview: Engineering analysis distinguishes true engineering design from ""tinkering."" In this activity, students are guided through an example engineering analysis scenario for a scooter. Then they perform a similar...
Design a Recycling Game!
"Overview: Students brainstorm ideas for board game formats. Then student teams design, create and test games in which players must think of alternative uses (recycling) for used products. Subject: Engineering, Environm...
Design a Parachute
"Overview: After a discussion about what a parachute is and how it works, students create parachutes using different materials that they think will work best. They test their designs, and then contribute to a class discu...
Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions
"Overview: Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible...
Concentrating on the Sun with PVs
"Overview: Students design, build and test reflectors to measure the effect of solar reflectance on the efficiency of solar PV panels. They use a small PV panel, a multimeter, cardboard and foil to build and test their r...
Design Step 2: Research the Problem
"Overview: Through Internet research, patent research, standards and codes research, user interviews (if possible) and other techniques (idea web, reverse engineering), students further develop the context for their desi...
Concentrated Solar Power
"Overview: Students learn how the total solar irradiance hitting a photovoltaic (PV) panel can be increased through the use of a concentrating device, such as a reflector or lens. This is the final lesson in the Photovol...
Concentrate This! Sugar or Salt...
"Overview: Students investigate the property dependence between concentrations and boiling point. In section 1, students first investigate the boiling point of various liquid solutions. In section 2, they analyze data co...
Design Step 1: Identify the Need
"Overview: Students practice the initial steps involved in an engineering design challenge. They begin by reviewing the steps of the engineering design loop and discussing the client need for the project. Next, they iden...
Computer Simulation of the Sonoran Desert Community
"Overview: The computer program's simulation of a Sonoran desert community should ultimately strengthen the student's comprehension of what is required for a natural ecosystem to sustain itself (remain in balance). This...
Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti
"Overview: Students use their creative skills to determine a way to safely mail raw (dry, uncooked) spaghetti using only the provided materials. To test the packing designs, the spaghetti is mailed through the postal sys...
Design Inspired by Nature
"Overview: Students discover how engineers can use biomimicry to enhance their designs. They learn how careful observation of nature becoming a nature detective, so to speak can lead to new innovations and products. In t...
Composting â Nature's Disappearing Act
"Overview: Students explore the concept of biodegradability by building and observing model landfills to test the decomposition of samples of everyday garbage items. They collect and record experiment observations over f...
Dam Forces
"Overview: Students learn how the force of water helps determine the size and shape of dams. They use clay to build models of four types of dams, and observe the force of the water against each type. They conclude by dec...
Composting Competition
"Overview: In a multi-week experiment, students monitor the core temperatures of two compost piles, one control and one tended, to see how air and water affect microbial activity. They daily aerate and wet the ""treated"...
A Daily Dose of Sun Keeps the Pests Away: How Soil Solarization Works
"Overview: Students learn how the process of soil solarization is used to pasteurize agricultural fields before planting crops. Soil solarization is a pest control technique in agriculture that uses the sun’s radiation t...
Design, Build and Test Your Own Landfill
"Overview: Students design and build model landfills using materials similar to those used by engineers for full-scale landfills. Their completed small-size landfills are ""rained"" on and subjected to other erosion proc...
Completing the Circuit
"Overview: In the everyday electrical devices we use calculators, remote controls and cell phones a voltage source such as a battery is required to close the circuit and operate the device. In this hands-on activity, stu...
DNA: The Human Body Recipe
"Overview: As a class, students work through an example showing how DNA provides the ""recipe"" for making our body proteins. They see how the pattern of nucleotide bases (adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine) forms the d...