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Explore IEEE Try Engineering’s database of lesson plans to teach engineering concepts to your students, aged 4 to 18. Explore areas such as lasers, LED lights, flight, smart buildings, and more through our activities. All lesson plans are provided by teachers like you and are peer reviewed.

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IEEE REACH offers a one-stop shop of resources that bring to life the history of technology and engineering in the classroom. Resources include: inquiry units, primary and secondary sources, hands-on-activities, and multimedia sources (video and audio). The units have 9 themes: agriculture, manufacturing, materials & structures, energy, communication, transportation, information processing, medicine & healthcare, and warfare.

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Manufacturing Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

8-10, 11-13

3D Printing by Hand

3D Printing by Hand In this lesson, students will explore how 3D printers work.Then, working in pairs, they will use the same methods used by 3D...

3D Printing, Engineering

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Chemical Engineering

Materials and Properties

8-10, 11-13, 14-18

A Century of Plastics

Lesson focuses on how plastics of all sorts have been engineered in to everyday products over the past century, with emphasis on materials selection and engineering.

Properties of Materials

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Forces and Motion

Systems Engineering

8-10, 11-13, 14-18

A Question of Balance

A Question of Balance This lesson focuses on the use of weight scales and measurement by manufacturing engineers. Teams of students are posed with the challenge...

Packaging, Weight

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Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

11-13, 14-18

AC Motors

Lesson Focus The lesson begins by outlining the work of some of the early experimenters and the sequence which eventually led to the realization of the...

Electromagnet, Motors

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Biomedical Engineering

Mechanical Engineering

8-10, 11-13, 14-18

Adaptive Device Design

Lesson focuses on the engineering of adaptive or assistive devices, such as prosthetic devices, wheelchairs, eyeglasses, grab bars, hearing aids, lifts, or braces.

Biotechnology, Simple Machines

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Design

Physics (light, sound, heat)

8-10, 11-13

An Eye on Optics

An Eye on Optics The goal of this lesson is to provide students with an open-ended opportunity to explore and work with materials, make and share...

Light and Heat

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Teach Engineering Through Simple & Engaging Activities

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