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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Time for Design
"Overview: Students are introduced to the engineering design process, focusing on the concept of brainstorming design alternatives. They learn that engineering is about designing creative ways to improve existing artifac...
There Will Be Drugs
"Overview: Students experience the engineering design process as they design, fabricate, test and redesign their own methods for encapsulation of a (hypothetical) new miracle drug. As if they are engineers, teams make la...
Waves and Wave Properties
"Overview: Students learn about the types of waves and how they change direction, as well as basic wave properties such as wavelength, frequency, amplitude and speed. During the presentation of lecture information on wav...
That's Hot! Robot Brain Programming
"Overview: With the challenge to program computers to mimic the human reaction after touching a hot object, students program LEGO® robots to ""react"" and move back quickly once their touch sensors bump into something. B...
The Universal Language of Engineering Drawings
"Overview: Students practice the ability to produce clear, complete, accurate and detailed design drawings through an engineering design challenge. Using only the specified materials, teams are challenged to draw a desig...
Tightrope Trials
"Overview: To learn about the concept of center of mass, students examine how objects balance. They make symmetrical cut-outs of different ""creatures"" and experiment with how they balance on a tightrope of string. Stud...
Thar She Blows!
"Overview: Students learn about wind as a source of renewable energy and explore the advantages and disadvantages wind turbines and wind farms. They also learn about the effectiveness of wind turbines in varying weather...
Testing the Caverns
"Overview: Students build model caverns and bury them in a tray of sand. They test the models by dropping balls onto them to simulate an asteroid hitting the Earth. By molding papier-mache or clay around balloons (to for...
Thrown for a Loop
"Overview: In this lesson, students begin to focus on the torque associated with a current carrying loop in a magnetic field. Students are prompted with example problems and use diagrams to visualize the vector product....
Waves: The Three Color Mystery
"Overview: Students are presented with a challenge question concerning color blindness and asked to use engineering principles to design devices to help people who are color blind. Using the legacy cycle as a model, this...
Understanding Movement in Humans and Robots
"Overview: This activity helps students understand how a LEGO MINDSTORMS(TM) NXT robot moves using motors and wheels. Then students relate the concepts of decision-making actuation and motion in humans to their parallels...
Tension Racers!
"Overview: Students see how different levels of surface tension affect water's ability to move. Teams ""race"" water droplets down tracks made of different materials, making measurements, collecting data, making calculat...
Temperature Tells All!
"Overview: Students are introduced to the health risks caused by cooking and heating with inefficient cook stoves inside homes, a common practice in rural developing communities. Students simulate the cook stove scenario...
The Three Color Mystery
"Overview: Students are introduced to an engineering challenge in which they are given a job assignment to separate three types of apples. However, they are unable to see the color differences between the apples, and as...
Understanding Elements
"Overview: This lesson plan examines the properties of elements and the periodic table. Students learn the basic definition of an element and the 18 elements that build most of the matter in the universe. The periodic ta...
The Temperature Effect
"Overview: Students explore how the efficiency of a solar photovoltaic (PV) panel is affected by the ambient temperature. They learn how engineers predict the power output of a PV panel at different temperatures and exam...
Tell Me the Odds (of Cancer)
"Overview: Through four lessons and three hands-on activities, students learn the concepts of refraction and interference in order to solve an engineering challenge: ""In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a double m...
Waves Go Public!
"Overview: Students apply everything they have learned over the course of the associated lessons about waves, light properties, the electromagnetic spectrum, and the structure of the eye, by designing devices that can ai...
Understanding Communication with a Robot
"Overview: Student pairs first act out the instructions a robot is given with one person providing instructions and the other person following the instructions. This activity helps students understand how robots are prog...
Tell Me Doc: Will I Get Cancer?
"Overview: Students are introduced to the unit challenge discovering a new way to assess a person's risk of breast cancer. Solving this challenge requires knowledge of refraction and the properties of light. After being...