Lesson Plans

TryEngineering offers a variety of lesson plans that align with education standards to allow teachers and students to apply engineering principles in the classroom.
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The following training module outlines how TryEngineering lessons can benefit your students, provides tips on how these lessons can be integrated with other subject areas and offers background information on engineering and engineering careers.

The matrix below will allow you to select a lesson that will be age and content appropriate for your classroom. Download the full lesson plan PDF file to see how the lesson plan aligns with Educational Standards.

The following examples illustrate how TryEngineering.org lesson plans can be aligned to local education standards around the world:

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Chair Lift Challenge

Students explore how engineers work to provide safe transportation options in different environments and climates.

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Electric Messages: Then and Now

Students learn how to send Morse Code through electrical switches which they construct from batteries, wires, and a bulb.

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Water Tower Challenge

Students explore how engineers have solved societal problems such as water delivery and storage.

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Stop And Go

Students explore how engineers redesigned or re-engineered the traffic signal over time to enhance its functionality.

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Engineered Memory

Students learn how floppy disks work and explore how they hold up in a variety of situations.

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Filtration Investigation

Students learn how filtrations systems are of many sorts for many purposes.

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	Basic Electric Transformers Students learn what transformers are and what they do and then build and test their own working transformers. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Making Sense of Sensors Students learn how instruments that measure humidity come in different designs and server many purposes. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Can You Copperplate? Students work in teams to develop a chemical system to add a layer of copper to another metal product. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Radio Reception and Transmission Students explore how advances in radio communications have impacted society. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Fun with Speedboats Student learn how engineers compete in water speed races and then design their own speedboat out of everyday items. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Choose Your Best Way Students learn how to solve a real problem in computer with the help of discrete mathematic models. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Complexity -- It's Simple Students gain an intuitive understanding of complexity and runtime of algorithms. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Solving Problems with Decision Trees Students learn about decision trees, subscription fraud and how they can use decision trees to solve the problem. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Fun with Sorting Eight objects, each with a hidden number, will form a list that needs to be sorted in ascending order. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF
	Search Engines Students build search queries. They learn efficient method of retrieving information. Students compare different search engines. View Full Lesson Plan Lesson Plan PDF