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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Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
"Overview: We are surrounded everyday by circuits that utilize ""in parallel"" and ""in series"" circuitry. Complicated circuits designed by engineers are made of many simpler parallel and series circuits. In this hands-...
Built to Last?
"Overview: In this activity, the students test the shelters they built in Lesson 3, Activity 1 for durability and water resistance. Subject: Engineering Level: Upper Primary Grades: Grade 5 Material Type: Activity/Lab P...
Build an Anemometer
"Overview: Students create their own anemometers instruments for measuring wind speed. They see how an anemometer measures wind speed by taking measurements at various school locations. They also learn about different ty...
Build it Better!
"Overview: Students use their knowledge of tornadoes and damage. The students will work in groups to design a structure that will withstand and protect people from tornadoes. Each group will create a poster with the name...
Building towards the Future
"Overview: Students are introduced to some basic civil engineering concepts in an exciting and interactive manner. Bridges and skyscrapers, the two most visible structures designed by civil engineers, are discussed in de...
Build a Toy Workshop
"Overview: Working as if they are engineers who work for (the hypothetical) Build-a-Toy Workshop company, students apply their imaginations and the engineering design process to design and build prototype toys with movin...
Building the Neuron
"Overview: What does the brain look like? As engineers, how can we look at neural networks without invasive surgery? In this activity, students design and build neuron models based on observations made while viewing neur...
Build a Charge Detector
"Overview: In this hands-on activity, students explore the electrical force that takes place between two objects. Each student builds an electroscope and uses the device to draw conclusions about objects' charge intensit...
Building an Electromagnet
"Overview: Students design and construct electromagnets that must pick up 10 staples. They begin with only minimal guidance, and after the basic concept is understood, are informed of the properties that affect the stren...
Build a Birdhouse
"Overview: Students construct bird nests and birdhouses. They research birds of their choosing and then design houses that meet the birds' specific needs. It works well to conduct this activity in conjunction with a grad...
Building a Stronger (Sweeter) New Orleans
"Overview: Students create and analyze composite materials with the intent of using the materials to construct a structure with optimal strength and minimal density. The composite materials are made of puffed rice cereal...
Build Your Own Insect Trap
"Overview: Students design and construct devices to trap insects that are present in the area around the school. The objective is to ask the right design questions and conduct the right tests to determine if the traps wo...
Building a Piezoelectric Generator
"Overview: Students learn how to build simple piezoelectric generators to power LEDs. To do this, they incorporate into a circuit a piezoelectric element that converts movements they make (mechanical energy) into electri...
Building a Fancy Spectrograph
"Overview: Students create and decorate their own spectrographs using simple materials and holographic diffraction gratings. A holographic diffraction grating acts like a prism, showing the visual components of light. Af...
Bubbling Plants
"Overview: Students learn a simple technique for quantifying the amount of photosynthesis that occurs in a given period of time, using a common water plant (Elodea). They can use this technique to compare the amounts of...
Building a Barometer
"Overview: Students investigate the weather from a systems approach, learning how individual parts of a system work together to create a final product. Students learn how a barometer works to measure the Earth's air pres...
Blazing Gas
"Overview: Students are introduced to our Sun as they explore its composition, what is happening inside it, its relationship to our planet (our energy source), and the ways engineers help us learn about it. Subject: Eng...
Bubbles and Biosensors
"Overview: Students work in groups to create soap bubbles on a smooth surface, recording their observations from which they formulate theories to explain what they see (color swirls on the bubble surfaces caused by refra...
Biot-Savart Law
"Overview: This lesson begins with a demonstration prompting students to consider how current generates a magnetic field and the direction of the field that is generated. Through formal lecture, students learn Biot-Savar...
Broken Bones & Biomedical Materials
"Overview: Students are introduced to the concept and steps of the engineering design process and taught how to apply it. Students first receive some background information about biomedical engineering (aka bioengineerin...