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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Aging Heart Valves
"Overview: In this unit, students learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. Following the steps of the Legacy Cycle, students brainstorm, research, design and present...
An Assistive Artistic Device
"Overview: Students design and develop a useful assistive device for people challenged by fine motor skill development who cannot grasp and control objects. In the process of designing prototype devices, they learn about...
Active and Passive Transport: Red Rover Send Particles Over
"Overview: Students compare and contrast passive and active transport by playing a game to model this phenomenon. Movement through cell membranes is also modeled, as well as the structure and movement typical of the flui...
Artificial Heart Design Challenge
"Overview: Students are presented with a hypothetical scenario in which they are biomedical engineers asked to design artificial hearts. Using the engineering design process as a guide, the challenge is established and s...
Action-Reaction! Rocket
"Overview: Students construct rockets from balloons propelled along a guide string. They use this model to learn about Newton's three laws of motion, examining the effect of different forces on the motion of the rocket....
Acoustic Mirrors
"Overview: Students play and record the “Mary Had a Little Lamb” song using musical instruments and analyze the intensity of the sound using free audio editing and recording software. Then they use hollow Styrofoam half-...
The Artificial Bicep
"Overview: Students learn more about how muscles work and how biomedical engineers can help keep the muscular system healthy. Following the engineering design process, they create their own biomedical device to aid in th...
Acid (and Base) Rainbows
"Overview: Students are introduced to the differences between acids and bases and how to use indicators, such as pH paper and red cabbage juice, to distinguish between them. Subject: Engineering Level: Upper Primary, Mi...
An Arm and a Leg
"Overview: As an introduction to bioengineering, student teams are given the engineering challenge to design and build prototype artificial limbs using a simple syringe system and limited resources. As part of a NASA lun...
Acid Rain Effects
"Overview: Students conduct a simple experiment to model and explore the harmful effects of acid rain (vinegar) on living (green leaf and eggshell) and non-living (paper clip) objects. Subject: Engineering, Environmenta...
Are We Like Robots?
"Overview: This lesson explores the similarities between how a human being moves/walks and how a robot moves. This allows students to see the human body as a system, i.e., from the perspective of an engineer. It shows ho...
Acid Attack
"Overview: In this activity, students explore the effect of chemical erosion on statues and monuments. They use chalk to see what happens when limestone is placed in liquids with different pH values. They also learn seve...
Accelerometer: Centripetal Acceleration
"Overview: Students work as physicists to understand centripetal acceleration concepts. They also learn about a good robot design and the accelerometer sensor. They also learn about the relationship between centripetal a...
Are We Alone?
"Overview: The year is 2032 and your class has successfully achieved a manned mission to Mars! After several explorations of the Red Planet, one question is still being debated: ""Is there life on Mars?"" The class is ch...
Above-Ground Storage Tanks in the Houston Ship Channel
"Overview: Students are provided with an introduction to above-ground storage tanks, specifically how and why they are used in the Houston Ship Channel. The introduction includes many photographic examples of petrochemic...
Above-Ground Storage Tank Design Project
"Overview: At this point in the unit, students have learned about Pascal's law, Archimedes' principle, Bernoulli's principle, and why above-ground storage tanks are of major concern in the Houston Ship Channel and other...
Are Dams Forever?
"Overview: Students learn that dams do not last forever. Similar to other human-made structures, such as roads and bridges, dams require regular maintenance and have a finite lifespan. Many dams built during the 1930-70s...
AM I on the Radio?
"Overview: Student groups create working radios by soldering circuit components supplied from AM radio kits. By carrying out this activity in conjunction with its associated lesson concerning circuits and how AM radios w...
Arctic Animal Robot
"Overview: Students create four-legged walking robots and measure how far they travel across different types of surfaces. They design and create ""shoes"" to add to the robots' feet and observe the effect of their modifi...
3RC (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost)
"Overview: In this lesson, students expand their understanding of solid waste management to include the idea of 3RC (reduce, reuse, recycle and compost). They will look at the effects of packaging decisions (reducing) an...