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Solving a Simple Maze
Lesson focuses on algorithmic thinking and programming. Make the students aware of the beauty of simple algorithms and t…
Search Engines
Lesson focuses on exploring how the development of search engines has revolutionized Internet. Students work in teams to…
Fun with Sorting
The lesson focuses on introducing the fundamental problem of “sorting an array” to pre-university students.…
Solving Problems with Decision Trees
This lesson focuses on how computing decision trees are used to specify and solve problems.…
Complexity -- It's Simple
This lesson allows students to playfully understand algorithms and complexity.…
Choose Your Best Way
Lesson focuses on how mathematic models help to solve real problems and are realized in computers. Students work in team…
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 …
Arduino Blink Challenge
Lesson explores computer programming and the impact of computers on society. Students build and test a program to turn a…
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…
Failure: Seeds of Innovation
Lesson focuses on how failure is part of the engineering process. Students work in teams and learn about many inventions…
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 …
Chair Lift Challenge
The lesson focuses on unique challenges in transportation engineering, such as devising a method for skiers or hikers to…
Pendulum Time
Lesson focuses on how pendulums have been used to measure time and how mechanical mechanism pendulum clocks operate. S…
Be A Scanning Probe Microscope
Lesson focuses on how engineers have developed and use special tools that can observe the landscape of materials when th…
Stop And Go
Lesson focuses on how engineers have developed and improved traffic management over time by engineering and re-engineeri…
Get It Write
Lesson focuses on how writing instruments have been engineered over time. Students work in teams to design and build a f…
Blast Off!
Lesson focuses on aerospace engineering and how space flight has been achieved from an engineering vantage point. Studen…
Water Tower Challenge
Lesson focuses on water storage and how engineering helps communities preserve and supply water to populations. Students…
Tall Tower Challenge
Lesson focuses on the growth of tall buildings and their structures. Students work in teams to develop the tallest towe…
Using Ohm’s Law to Build a Voltage Divider
Students will design, build, and characterize one of the basic circuits of electrical engineering, the voltage divider. …
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…
Biomimicry in Engineering
Lesson focuses on the concept of Biomimicry and students learn how engineers have incorporated structures and methods fr…
Toxic Popcorn Design Challenge
This lesson introduces students to the engineering design process (EDP)—the process engineers use to solve design chal…
Interactive Gumball Machine
Students explore potential and kinetic energy while working in teams to design and build an interactive gumball machine.…
Water Fountain
This lesson demonstrates how a hydraulic pump works. Students work in teams to design and build a unique water fountain …
Statue Display Tower
Students design, build, test and redesign a display tower that will meet a specific set of criteria and constraints.…
Robot Basketball
This lesson demonstrates the difference between precision and accuracy. Students design a device that can shoot a baske…
Assembly Line
This lesson demonstrates the power of mass production. Students work in teams to design, construct, test, and redesign a…
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 …
Trebuchet Toss
This lesson focuses on trebuchet design. Teams of students construct trebuchets from everyday materials. They then test …
Tinkering with Tops
In this lesson, students build spinning tops out of everyday materials. Their challenge is to design a spinning top that…
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…
Playing with Parachutes
This lesson focuses on parachute design. Teams of students construct parachutes from everyday materials. They then test …
Rubber Band Racers
The focus of this lesson is on rubber band powered car design. Teams of students construct rubber band powered cars from…
Nano Waterproofing
Lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted the design and engineering of many everyday items, from paint to fabri…
Working with Wind Energy
Lesson focuses on how wind energy can be generated on both a large and small scale. Student teams design and build a wor…
Shake it up with Seismographs!
Lesson focuses on exploring how the development of seismographs has helped save lives around the world. Students work i…
Measuring the Wind
Lesson focuses on how anemometers are engineered to measure the speed of wind, and how designs have changed over time. S…
Find it with GPS!
Lesson focuses on exploring how the development of global positioning systems has revolutionized both defense and consum…
Popsicle Bridge
Lesson focuses on how bridges are engineered to withstand weight, while being durable, and in some cases aesthetically p…
Oil Spill Solutions
Lesson focuses on how engineers use various techniques to provide speedy solutions to oil spills or other threats to nat…
Making Sense of Sensors
Lesson focuses on how sensors are used in many applications to gather information about our environment. This lesson fo…
Irrigation Ideas
Lesson focuses on how through the centuries man has had the need to move water from one place to another. Engineered ir…
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…
Engineered Music
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind the design of musical instruments. Teams of students explore the engineering b…
Cast Your Vote
Lesson focuses on how technology and engineering impact society, and how poll-taking has been influenced by engineering …
Can You Canoe?
Lesson focuses on how canoes, which have been hand built for centuries, have been impacted by engineered materials and m…
Filtration Investigation
Lesson focuses on how filtration systems solve many problems throughout the world such as improving drinking water. Thro…
Working with Watermills
Lesson focuses on how watermills generate power. Student teams design and build a working watermill out of everyday prod…
Wind Tunnel Testing
Lesson focuses on wind tunnel tests that engineers in many industries use to when developing products such as airplanes,…
Engineered Memory
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind storage devices, and engineering improvements over time. Though exploring the o…
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 …
Simple Kitchen Machines
Lesson focuses on simple machines and how they can be found in many everyday items. Students explore the different type…
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…
A Question of Balance
Lesson focuses on the use of weight scales and measurement by manufacturing engineers. Teams of students are posed with…
Pipeline Challenge
Lesson focuses on how engineers develop pipeline systems to transport oil, water, gas, and other materials over very lon…
Move That Lighthouse!
Lesson focuses on how engineers have to evaluate multiple structural, economic, and environmental factors when moving a …
Infrared Investigations
Lesson focuses on how infrared technology is used by engineers creating equipment and system for a variety of industries…
Hand Biometrics Technology
Lesson focuses on engineering applications of biometric technologies for identification or security applications. After …
Program Your Own Game
Lesson focuses on how software engineers design computer games and other software. Student teams work together to devel…
Engineering Ups and Downs
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind elevators. Teams of students explore principles and requirements of vertical t…
Dispenser Designs
Lesson focuses on how engineers have to design objects to meet the needs of users, while considering the limitations of …
Build a Big Wheel
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind big wheels (sometimes called Ferris wheels). Teams of students explore the eng…
Engineering Air Traffic
Lesson focuses on the engineering behind air traffic control systems. Students work in teams to evaluate data generated …
Sticky Engineering Challenge
Lesson focuses on how engineers work to solve problems and impact daily life through new and improved products. As engi…
Give Binary a Try!
Lesson focuses on how binary codes function and binary applications for computer engineers. The lesson offers students a…
Two Button Buzzer Circuit
Demonstrate how two switches interact in an electrical circuit such as that used to sound a buzzer. Note: This lesson p…
Simple Machines
Simple machines: their principles and uses. …
Series and Parallel Circuits
Demonstrate and discuss simple circuits and the differences between parallel and serial circuit design and functions. N…
Rotational Equilibrium
Demonstrate the concept of rotational equilibrium.…
Pulleys and Force
Lesson focuses on the concept of force and the use of pulleys to reduce required force. …
Get Connected With Ohm's Law
Demonstrate Ohm's Law using digital multi-meters. Fun hands-on activities are presented that demonstrate Ohm's Law. Tea…
Insulators and Conductors
Demonstrating the concept of conducting or insulating electricity. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use …
Here Comes the Sun
Lesson focuses on solar panel design, and its application in the standard calculator. It explores how both solar panels…
Heart of the Matter
Lesson focuses on the engineering and operation of artificial heart valves, and the interface between man and machine. …
Give Me a Brake
Lesson focuses on brakes, force, and friction, using bicycle rim brakes to demonstrate basic braking mechanisms to stop,…
Getting Your Bearings
Lesson focuses on the concept of friction and the use of ball bearings to reduce friction. …
Flashlights and Batteries
Lesson focuses on the concept of electron flow through the demonstration of electrical circuits in a flashlight, and how…
Electric Messages: Then and Now
Lesson focuses on exploring electric message systems, from light signals using International Morse Code to text messagin…
Electric Switches
Demonstrate how electric circuits can be controlled with a simple switch. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classr…
EEEEK- A Mouse!
Lesson focuses on computer and mechanical engineering and explores how computer mice operate and how engineering provide…
Critical Load
Lesson focuses on issues civil engineers face, including critical load and how to reinforce the design of a structure to…
Cracking the Code
Lesson focuses on how computerized barcodes have improved efficiency in product distribution; explores the barcoding pro…
Clipper Creations
Develop a working model of a nail clipper. …
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…
Adaptive Device Design
Lesson focuses on the engineering of adaptive or assistive devices, such as prosthetic devices, wheelchairs, eyeglasses,…
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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