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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This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
"Overview: In this activity, students will review and evaluate the ways land is covered and used in their local community. They will also consider the environmental effects of the different types of land use. Students wi...
Tears in Rain
"Overview: The goal of this activity is for students to develop visual literacy. They learn how images are manipulated for a powerful effect and how a photograph can make the invisible (pollutants that form acid rain) vi...
A Tasty Experiment
"Overview: Students conduct an experiment to determine whether or not the sense of smell is important to being able to recognize foods by taste. They do this by attempting to identify several different foods that have si...
Watt Meters to Measure Energy Consumption
"Overview: Students use watt meters to measure the power required and calculate energy used from various electrical devices and household appliances. Subject: Engineering, Electronic Technology Level: Middle School Grad...
Thirsty for Gold
"Overview: Student teams conduct an experiment that uses gold nanoparticles as sensors of chemical agents to determine which of four sports drinks has the most electrolytes. In this way, students are introduced to gold n...
Waterwheel Work
"Overview: Students learn the history of the waterwheel and common uses for water turbines today. They explore kinetic energy by creating their own experimental waterwheel from a two-liter plastic bottle. They investigat...
Taking the Boat to Manaus
"Overview: In this activity, the students will apply the concepts they learned regarding mass, volume and density in the previous activities to design a boat. Subject: Engineering, Physics Level: Upper Primary Grades: G...
Take Off with Paper Airplanes
"Overview: This lesson introduces students to the art of designing an airplane through paper airplane constructions. The goal is that students will learn important aircraft design considerations and how engineers must it...
Watershed Balance
"Overview: Students learn about the water cycle and its key components. First, they learn about the concept of a watershed and why it is important in the context of engineering hydrology. Then they learn how we can use t...
Take Charge!
"Overview: In this hands-on activity, students construct a simple switch and determine what objects and what types of materials can be used to close a switch in a circuit and light a light bulb. Subject: Engineering, El...
Switcheroo
"Overview: In this hands-on activity, students construct a simple switch and determine what objects and what types of materials can be used to close a switch in a circuit and light a light bulb. Subject: Engineering, El...
Water, Water Everywhere
"Overview: Students learn about floods, discovering that different types of floods occur from different water sources, but primarily from heavy rainfall. While floods occur naturally and have benefits such as creating fe...
Swinging with Style
"Overview: Students experientially learn about the characteristics of a simple physics phenomenon the pendulum by riding on playground swings. They use pendulum terms and a timer to experiment with swing variables. They...
Water Remediation Lab
"Overview: Students measure the effectiveness of water filters in purifying contaminated water. They prepare test water by creating different concentrations of bleach (chlorine-contaminated) water. After passing the cont...
Swinging Pendulum (for High School)
"Overview: This activity shows students the engineering importance of understanding the laws of mechanical energy. More specifically, it demonstrates how potential energy can be converted to kinetic energy and back again...
Swinging Pendulum
"Overview: This activity demonstrates how potential energy (PE) can be converted to kinetic energy (KE) and back again. Given a pendulum height, students calculate and predict how fast the pendulum will swing by understa...
Water Power
"Overview: Students observe a model waterwheel to investigate the transformations of energy involved in turning the blades of a hydro-turbine. Students work as engineers to create model waterwheels while considering reso...
Swing in Time
"Overview: Students examine the motion of pendulums and come to understand that the longer the string of the pendulum, the fewer the number of swings in a given time interval. They see that changing the weight on the pen...
Swim to and from the Sea!
"Overview: Students are introduced to the basic biology behind Pacific salmon migration and the many engineered Columbia River dam structures that aid in their passage through the river's hydroelectric dams. Students app...
Water Filtration
"Overview: Students are asked to design methods to filter water using ordinary materials, while also considering their designs' material and cost efficiencies. They learn about the importance of water and its role in our...