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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Clay Boats
"Overview: Students use a small quantity of modeling clay to make boats that float in a tub of water. The object is to build boats that hold as much weight as possible without sinking. In the process of designing and tes...
Cell Membrane Experimental Design
"Overview: The final activity of this unit, which integrates the Keepers of the Gate unit through the Go Public challenge, involves students taking part in experimental design. They design a lab that answers the challeng...
Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven
"Overview: Student groups are given a set of materials: cardboard, insulating materials, aluminum foil and Plexiglas, and challenged to build solar ovens. The ovens must collect and store as much of the sun's energy as p...
Citizen Science with Zooniverse
"Overview: Students learn that ordinary citizens, including students like themselves, can make meaningful contributions to science through the concept of ""citizen science."" First, students learn some examples of ongoin...
Cell Membrane Color Sheet and Build a Cell Membrane
"Overview: Students color-code a schematic of a cell and its cell membrane structures. Then they complete the ""Build-a-Membrane"" activity found at http://learn.genetics.utah.edu. This reinforces their understanding of...
Circuits and Magnetic Fields
"Overview: Students use the same method as in the activity from lesson 2 of this unit to explore the magnetism due to electric current instead of a permanent magnet. Students use a compass and circuit to trace the magnet...
Cooking with the Sun
"Overview: Students learn about using renewable energy from the Sun for heating and cooking as they build and compare the performance of four solar cooker designs. They explore the concepts of insulation, reflection, abs...
Chromatography Lab
"Overview: To increase students' awareness of possible invisible pollutants in drinking water sources, students perform an exciting lab requiring them to think about how solutions and mixtures exist even in unsuspecting...
Convertible Shoes: Function, Fashion and Design
"Overview: Students teams design and build shoe prototypes that convert between high heels and athletic shoes. They apply their knowledge about the mechanics of walking and running as well as shoe design (as learned in t...
Cell Celebration!
"Overview: In this lesson, the students look at the components of cells and their functions. The lesson focuses on the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells. Each part of the cell performs a specific functi...
Choosing a Pyramid Site
"Overview: Working in engineering project teams, students evaluate sites for the construction of a pyramid. They base their decision on site features as provided by a surveyor's report; distance from the quarry, river an...
Controlling Sound
"Overview: In this activity, students use a variety of materials to design and create headphones that absorb sound. Subject: Engineering, Physics Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5 Material Type: Act...
Chemical Wonders
"Overview: Students are introduced to chemical engineering and learn about its many different applications. They are provided with a basic introduction to matter and its different properties and states. An associated han...
Control Using Sound
"Overview: Students gain a deeper understanding of how sound sensors work through a hands-on design challenge involving LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT taskbots and sound sensors. Student groups each program a robot computer to...
Caught in the Net
"Overview: Bycatch can be defined as the act of unintentionally catching certain living creatures using fishing gear. A bycatched species is distinguished from a target species (the animal the gear is intended to catch)...
Checking the Surf
"Overview: This lesson introduces the concepts of wavelength and amplitude in transverse waves. In the associated activity, students will use ropes and their bodies to investigate different wavelengths and amplitudes. S...
Constructing Sonoran Desert Food Chains and Food Webs
"Overview: Is the food chain shown above accurate? Does the first link depict a producer, the second link a herbivore, and the third link an omnivore / carnivore? Students must correctly determine whether a species is a...
Charge It!
"Overview: Students use balloons to perform several simple experiments to explore static electricity and charge polarization. Subject: Engineering, Physics Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5 Material...
Catapults!
"Overview: Students observe the relationship between the angle of a catapult (a force measurement) and the flight of a cotton ball. They learn how Newton's second law of motion works by seeing directly that F = ma. When...
Changing Fields
"Overview: This lesson begins with an activity in which students induce EMF in a coil of wire using magnetic fields. Then, demonstrations on Eddy currents show how a magnetic field can slow magnets just as Eddy currents...