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Don’t Flood the Fidgits!

  • June 16, 2016
Resource Type: Game
Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering
Age Group: Upper Elementary: Ages 8–10

Build a city for the Fidgits that will stay safe and dry during a flood.

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Flood the Fidgits!

Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering

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Temperature Tactics

Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering
Stem Field: Weather and Climate

This lesson focuses on how thermometers have been impacted by engineering over time, as well as how materials engineering has developed temperature-sensitive materials. Student teams…

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Microplastic Clean-Up Challenge

Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering, Ocean/Marine Engineering
Stem Field: Environment/Ecology, Materials and Properties
Age Group: Early Elementary: Ages 4–7
Collection: Climate Change, Ocean Engineering

This lesson explores the critical issue of microplastics in the ocean. Working in teams, students apply the engineering design process to create a prototype clean-up…

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Pollution Patrol

Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering
Stem Field: Environment/Ecology
Age Group: High School: Ages 14–17
Collection: Climate Change

This lesson focuses on devices that are used to detect air pollution. Teams of students construct outdoor air pollution detectors from everyday materials. They then…

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Oil Spill Solutions

Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering
Age Group: High School: Ages 14–17
Collection: Pollution

Lesson focuses on how engineers use various techniques to provide speedy solutions to oil spills or other threats to natural water resources. Through this lesson,…

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Salamander Crossing

Engineering Discipline: Environmental Engineering
Age Group: Early Elementary: Ages 4–7
Collection: Climate Change

This lesson explores different types of animal crossings designed to protect wildlife and how civil engineers consider animal migration when developing infrastructure. Student teams construct…

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It’s time to put an end to pollution! This week is Pollution Prevention Week. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Pollution Prevention Week is…

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Are you a pre-university STEM educator in the classroom or engaged in informal education? Or are you an IEEE member interested in pre-university STEM outreach…

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A free software program is helping high school students learn all about molecules. The software, IQmol, models the three-dimensional structure of molecules. This allows students…

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      • Artificial Intelligence
      • Sustainable Technologies
      • Communications Engineering
      • Early ChildhoodNew
      • Electronics Lessons from Keysight
      • Engineering Simulations
      • History of Technology
      • Ocean Engineering
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