TeachEngineering NGSS Aligned Records
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20/20 Vision
"Overview: In this activity, students determine their own eyesight and calculate what a good average eyesight value for the class would be. Students learn about technologies to enhance eyesight and how engineers play an...
Design Step 6: Evaluate/Manufacture a Final Product
"Overview: As students learn more about the manufacturing process, they use the final prototypes created in the previous activity to evaluate, design and manufacture final products. Teams work with more advanced material...
Aqua-Thrusters!
"Overview: In this activity, students construct their own rocket-powered boat called an ""aqua-thruster."" These aqua-thrusters will be made from a film canister and will use carbon dioxide gas produced from a chemical r...
Build Your Own Mobile
"Overview: Student teams creatively construct mobiles using hangers and assorted materials and objects while exploring the principles of balance and center of mass. They build complex, free-hanging structures by balancin...
Exploring Solar Power
"Overview: Students explore the methods engineers have devised for harnessing sunlight to generate power. First, they investigate heat transfer and heat storage through the construction, testing and use of a solar oven....
Oil Spill Cleanup
"Overview: This hands-on experiment will provide students with an understanding of the issues that surround environmental cleanup. Students will create their own oil spill, try different methods for cleaning it up, and t...
Exploring Life Biology - Free College Biology Lectures
"Overview: Exploring Life: Biology is a complete, story-driven college-level biology course designed for clarity, engagement, and accessibility. The free version includes 23 fully narrated video lectures covering the ent...
Applying Statistics to Nano-Circuit Dimensions in Fabrication
"Overview: Measuring the dimensions of nano-circuits requires an expensive, high-resolution microscope with integrated video camera and a computer with sophisticated imaging software, but in this activity, students measu...
Introduction to Computer Science I
"Overview: This syllabus contains information, websites, and resources that are freely available to students as an alternative to a single textbook that is purchased. The semester course focuses on two major sections: 1)...
Simon Says Big Amplitude, Small Wavelength!
"Overview: In this activity, students play the game Simon Says to make the amplitudes and wavelengths defined by the teacher. First they play alone, and then they play with a partner using a piece of rope. Subject: Engi...
Park It!
"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 requirement...
Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection
"Overview: Students explore Hooke's law while working in small groups at their lab benches. They collect displacement data for springs with unknown spring constants, k, by adding various masses of known weight. After exp...
Middle School Math: 8th Grade Chapter 10 - Teacher Workbook
"Overview: 8th Grade Chapter 10: Geometry II - Angles and Triangles - Teacher Workbook Subject: Mathematics Level: Middle School Grades: Grade 8 Material Type: Textbook Provider: Middle School Math - University of Utah...
Animals and Engineering
"Overview: Students are introduced to the classification of animals and animal interactions. Students also learn why engineers need to know about animals and how they use that knowledge to design technologies that help o...
Soil Contamination in Rivers
"Overview: Students learn about contamination and pollution, specifically in reference to soil in and around rivers. To start, groups use light sensors to take light reflection measurements of different colors of sand (d...
Angular Velocity: Sweet Wheels
"Overview: Students analyze the relationship between wheel radius, linear velocity and angular velocity by using LEGO(TM) MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robots. Given various robots with different wheel sizes and fixed motor speeds,...
Exploring Energy: What Is Energy?
"Overview: Students are introduced to the definition of energy and the concepts of kinetic energy, potential energy, and energy transfer. This lesson is a broad overview of concepts that are taught in more detail in subs...
What's the Problem?
"Overview: Students learn of the impending asteroid impact scenario, form teams and begin to study the situation in depth. A simple in-class simulation shows them the potential for destruction and disaster. They complete...
Android Pendulums
"Overview: Students investigate the motion of a simple pendulum through direct observation and data collection using Android® devices. First, student groups create pendulums that hang from the classroom ceiling, using An...
What Is a Sensor?
"Overview: Students gain a rigorous background in the primary human ""sensors,"" as preparation for comparing them to some electronic equivalents in the associated activity. A review of human vision, hearing, smell, tast...