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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Creating an Electromagnet
"Overview: Student teams investigate the properties of electromagnets. They create their own small electromagnet and experiment with ways to change its strength to pick up more paper clips. Students learn about ways that...
Cleaning the Air
"Overview: Engineers design methods of removing particulate matter from industrial sources to minimize negative effects of air pollution. In this activity, students will undertake a similar engineering challenge as they...
Create a Safe Bungee Cord for Washy!
"Overview: Students learn about the role engineers and mathematicians play in developing the perfect bungee cord length by simulating and experimenting with bungee jumping using washers and rubber bands. Working as if th...
Chair Design
"Overview: Students become familiar with the engineering design process as they design, build and test chair prototypes. The miniature chairs must be sturdy and functional enough to hold a wooden, hinged artist model or...
Create a Pinhole Camera
"Overview: In this activity, students construct their own pinhole camera to observe the behavior of light. Subject: Engineering, Physics Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5 Material Type: Activity/Lab...
Crash! Bang!
"Overview: Students learn about the physical force of linear momentum movement in a straight line by investigating collisions. They learn an equation that engineers use to describe momentum. Students also investigate the...
Cereal Magnets
"Overview: Student groups compete to design a process that removes the most iron from fortified cereal. Students experiment with different materials using what they know about iron, magnets and forces to design the best...
Counting Calories
"Overview: The students discover the basics of heat transfer in this activity by constructing a constant pressure calorimeter to determine the heat of solution of potassium chloride in water. They first predict the amoun...
Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
"Overview: Two lessons and their associated activities explore cellular respiration and population growth in yeasts. Yeast cells are readily obtained and behave predictably, so they are very appropriate to use in middle...
Cellular Respiration and Bioremediation
"Overview: In this lesson, students learn about the basics of cellular respiration. They also learn about the application of cellular respiration to engineering and bioremediation. And, students are introduced to the pro...
Cleaning Up with Decomposers
"Overview: Students investigate decomposers and the role of decomposers in maintaining the flow of nutrients in an environment. Students also learn how engineers use decomposers to help clean up wastes in a process known...
Cost Comparisons
"Overview: Students learn about the many types of expenses associated with building a bridge. Working like engineers, they estimate the cost for materials for a bridge member of varying sizes. After making calculations,...
Cleaning Air with Balloons
"Overview: Students observe and discuss a simple balloon model of an electrostatic precipitator to better understand how this pollutant recovery method functions in cleaning industrial air pollution. Subject: Engineerin...
Cells
"Overview: In this unit, students look at the components of cells and their functions and discover the controversy behind stem cell research. The first lesson focuses on the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic...
Corn for Fuel?!
"Overview: In this activity, students examine how to grow plants the most efficiently. They imagine that they are designing a biofuels production facility and need to know how to efficiently grow plants to use in this fa...
Clean Enough to Drink
"Overview: Students act as engineers contracted by NASA to create water filtration devices that clean visible particulates from teacher-prepared ""dirty water."" They learn about the worldwide need for potable water and...
Cell Membrane Structure and Function
"Overview: Students learn about the different structures that comprise cell membranes, fulfilling part of the Research and Revise stages of the legacy cycle. They view online animations of cell membrane dynamics (links p...
Copycat Engineers
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to the idea of biomimicry or looking to nature for engineering ideas. Biomimicry involves solving human problems by mimicking natural solutions, and it works well because the so...
Clean Energy: Hydropower
"Overview: Hydropower generation is introduced to students as a common purpose and benefit of constructing dams. Through an introduction to kinetic and potential energy, students come to understand how a dam creates elec...
Cool Views
"Overview: Students learn the meaning of preservation and conservation and identify themselves and others as preservationists or conservationists in relation to specific environmental issues. They use Venn diagrams to cl...