Popsicle Bridge
Students learn how bridges are designed to meet load, stress, and aesthetic challenges.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Motion and Forces
Tall Tower Challenge
Students explore the tallest buildings in the world and how they were designed and constructed.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Motion and Forces, Properties of Materials
Design a Dome
Students learn about domes and work in teams to construct their own using everyday materials.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Properties of Materials
Water Tower Challenge
Students explore how engineers have solved societal problems such as water delivery and storage.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Environments and Resources
Build a Big Wheel
Students learn how big wheels have been designed throughout history, and then work in teams to design their own pasta wheel.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Motion and Forces
Smart Buildings and the Internet of Things
This lesson explores the practical, scientific, ethical, and environmental issues that emerge in building ‘smart buildings’ that rely on ‘the internet of things’.
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11 - 17CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Computing, Engineering Design, Environments and Resources, Technology
Critical Load
Students learn about how to test structures for maximum load by designing prototypes of buildings out of cards.
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8 - 14CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Motion and Forces
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Energy, Engineering Design, Motion and Forces, Properties of Materials
Waterproof that Roof!
Students work to design, build, and test a roofing system that will keep the contents of a box dry during a classroom "rainstorm."
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Buildings and Structures, Engineering Design, Properties of Materials, Structure of Matter, Technology
Biomimicry in Engineering
Students explore how engineers have incorporated systems, materials, and methods from nature into manmade products, materials, and methods found in all industries.
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