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Students explore how engineers incorporate the latest materials and manufacturing techniques to improve sports equipment.
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Students explore how engineers incorporate the latest materials and manufacturing techniques to improve sports equipment.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers created materials, products, and processes after facing a failure or mistake.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers have developed rocketships over the years, and learn about the principals of rocketry.
View DetailsStudents work in teams to design and build a functional "pen" out of everyday materials that can deliver washable liquid watercolor (ink) to a sheet of paper in a controlled manner.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers redesigned or re-engineered the traffic signal over time to enhance its functionality.
View DetailsStudents explore how the pendulum clock has proved to be a very accurate way of measuring time over the centuries. Students work in teams to build their own pendulum clock out of everyday items.
View DetailsStudents explore how engineers work to provide safe transportation options in different environments and climates.
View DetailsIn this lesson, students work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own surgical instrument out of everyday items.
View DetailsIn this lesson, students work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own solar house out of everyday items.
View DetailsStudents learn spring scales and develop their own functional spring scale out of everyday items. They present and then test their scales, and compare their designs with those of other teams.
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