Tennis Anyone?
Students explore how engineers incorporate the latest materials and manufacturing techniques to improve sports equipment.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Properties of Materials
Failure: Seeds of Innovation
Students explore how engineers created materials, products, and processes after facing a failure or mistake.
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Blast Off!
Students explore how engineers have developed rocketships over the years, and learn about the principals of rocketry.
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Get It Write
Students 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.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Properties of Materials
Stop And Go
Students explore how engineers redesigned or re-engineered the traffic signal over time to enhance its functionality.
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Pendulum Time
Students 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.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Energy, Engineering Design, Motion and Forces, Properties of Materials
Chair Lift Challenge
Students explore how engineers work to provide safe transportation options in different environments and climates.
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Smooth Operator
In this lesson, students work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own surgical instrument out of everyday items.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Human Body, Properties of Materials, Robotics
Solar Structures
In this lesson, students work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own solar house out of everyday items.
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Energy, Engineering Design, Environments and Resources, Light and Heat, Mathematical Applications, Properties of Materials
Spring Scale Engineering
Students 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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