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Fun with Speedboats
Lesson focuses on how engineers and ship designers have developed boats with a goal of breaking a water speed record. St…
Radio Reception and Transmission
Lesson explores the electronics behind radio, and its impact on society. Students work in teams to build and test a radi…
Can You Copperplate?
Lesson explores chemical engineering and explores how the processes of chemical plating and electroplating have impacted…
Planting with Precision
Lesson explores agricultural and engineering and challenges students to engineer a system out of everyday materials that…
Try Your Hand at Nano
Lesson focuses on two simple activities younger students can do to gain an appreciation of nanotechnology. First, stude…
Conveyor Engineering
Lesson explores the engineering behind the conveyor belt and considers the impact this invention has had on transportati…
Telescoping Periscope
Lesson focuses on the many uses of periscopes and how this simple device was designed and is used in many applications. …
Life Vest Challenge
Lesson explores the engineering behind life vests or personal flotation devices and the challenges met by these devices.…
The Power of Graphene
Lesson focuses on graphene and its electrical properties and applications. Students learn about nanotechnology and how …
Water Rocket Launch
Lesson focuses on aerospace engineering and how space flight has been achieved from an engineering vantage point. Stude…
Folding Matters
Lesson focuses on how the process of folding has impacts on engineering and is evident in nature. Students consider many…
Tennis Anyone?
Lesson focuses on sports engineering and advanced materials development. Students work in a team to devise a racquet out…
Fizzy Nano Challenge
Lesson focuses on how materials behave differently as their surface area increases. Students learn about nanotechnology …
Pendulum Time
Lesson focuses on how pendulums have been used to measure time and how mechanical mechanism pendulum clocks operate. S…
Get It Write
Lesson focuses on how writing instruments have been engineered over time. Students work in teams to design and build a f…
Tall Tower Challenge
Lesson focuses on the growth of tall buildings and their structures. Students work in teams to develop the tallest towe…
Spring Scale Engineering
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind building a spring scale and its use as a measuring device. Students work in te…
Solar Structures
This lesson focuses on how the sun’s energy can be used to heat and cool buildings. Teams of students construct passiv…
Smooth Operator
This lesson focuses on surgical instrument design. Teams of students construct surgical instruments from everyday materi…
Shipping for Survival
Lesson focuses on how packaging engineers develop customized shipping and packaging containers to meet the needs of many…
Waterproof that Roof!
Lesson focuses on how structural engineers have improved the designs of building -- specifically roofing -- over the yea…
Rescue Rover
This lesson focuses on the tools and equipment used during technical rescue operations. Teams of students construct resc…
Pollution Patrol
This lesson focuses on devices that are used to detect air pollution. Teams of students construct outdoor air pollution …
Classroom Paper Recycling
Lesson focuses on how engineers and others have developed and improved the manufacturing of recycled paper. Students wo…
Keep it Cool
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind keeping food and other items cool. Students work in teams to develop a system …
Engineer a Dam
Lesson focuses on the different uses of dams and how they are engineered. Students work in teams to develop a system of …
Design a Dome
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind building framing for structures, and explores examples of geodesic domes and ot…
Engineer a Cane
Lesson focuses on how engineers improve assistive devices such as a cane to meet the needs of the elderly. Students wor…
What is a Nanometer?
Lesson focuses on how to measure at the nano scale and provides students with an understanding of how small a nanometer …
Temperature Tactics
Lesson focuses on how thermometers have been impacted by engineering over time, and also how materials engineering has d…
Sugar Crystal Challenge
Lesson focuses on surface area and how the shape of sugar crystals may differ as they are grown from sugars of different…
Nano Waterproofing
Lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted the design and engineering of many everyday items, from paint to fabri…
How the Rubber Meets the Road
Lesson focuses on how engineers design tire treads to increase safety and reliability. Students are presented with the …
Exploring at the Nanoscale
Lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted our society and how engineers have learned to explore the world at the…
Can You Canoe?
Lesson focuses on how canoes, which have been hand built for centuries, have been impacted by engineered materials and m…
Engineered Sports
Lesson focuses on how the principles of aerospace engineering have impacted golf ball design, along with equipment used …
Hull Engineering
Lesson focuses on how the shape of ship's hull can impact its speed and stability potential in water. Teams of students …
Sort it Out!
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind industrial sorting processes. Working as an engineering group, students then wo…
Ship the Chip
Lesson focuses on engineering package designs that meet the needs of safely shipping a product. Students work in teams o…
Sail Away
Lesson focuses on watercraft engineering and sailing. Students work in teams to design a sailboat out of everyday objec…
Dispenser Designs
Lesson focuses on how engineers have to design objects to meet the needs of users, while considering the limitations of …
Sticky Engineering Challenge
Lesson focuses on how engineers work to solve problems and impact daily life through new and improved products. As engi…
EEEEK- A Mouse!
Lesson focuses on computer and mechanical engineering and explores how computer mice operate and how engineering provide…
Build Your Own Robot Arm
Develop a robot arm using common materials. Students will explore design, construction, teamwork, and materials selecti…
Design and Build a Better Candy Bag
Demonstrate how product design differences can affect the success of a final product -- in this case a bag for holding c…
A Century of Plastics
Lesson focuses on how plastics of all sorts have been engineered in to everyday products over the past century, with emp…


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