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Engage students in engineering with easy to use lesson plans

Teach Engineering Through Simple & Engaging Activities

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. View our complete TryEngineering lesson plan list.

Our lesson plans are easy to use and include student handouts and worksheets to print out. Select a category or an age range below to find lessons suitable for your students. If you have used any of our lessons, we want your feedback so please complete the survey below.

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Manufacturing Engineering Mechanical Engineering8-10, 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...
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Chemical Engineering Materials and Properties8-10, 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.
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Forces and Motion Systems Engineering8-10, 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...
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Electrical/Electronics Engineering Mechanical Engineering11-13, 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...
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Biomedical Engineering Hearing Aids Mechanical Engineering Signal Processing8-10, 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.
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Design Optical Communications Physics (light, sound, heat) Telecommunication Engineering8-10, 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...
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