Life Vest Challenge
Students explore how engineers develop and improve equipment that helps save lives in water emergencies.
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8 - 14CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Motion and Forces, Properties of Materials
Telescoping Periscope
Students explore how devices -- such as the periscope -- have evolved over time to meet societal needs.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Light and Heat, Properties of Materials
Conveyor Engineering
Students explore how engineers have solved societal problems to move goods, materials, and people using conveyor systems.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Motion and Forces, Properties of Materials, Simple Machines
Try Your Hand at Nano
Students explore nanotechnology through a measurement and temperature exercise involving liquid crystals.
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8 - 11CATEGORIES:
Properties of Materials, Structure of Matter, Technology
Planting with Precision
Students explore how engineers have increased the effectiveness and efficiency of planting seeds.
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8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Environments and Resources, Motion and Forces, Properties of Materials
Folding Matters
Students explore how the folding of materials is sometimes critical to the functionality or shipment of a product.
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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
8 - 18CATEGORIES:
Engineering Design, Properties of Materials, Technology
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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Lesson Plan PDFAGE LEVELS:
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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Be A Scanning Probe Microscope
Students explore how equipment developed by engineers allows us to "see" at the nanoscale.
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