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LESSON PLANS

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.

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Lesson Plans

Cast Your Vote This lesson focuses on how technology and engineering can impact society, and how poll-taking has been influenced by engineering over time. Students design...
The lesson focuses on unique challenges in transportation engineering, such as devising a method for skiers or hikers to get to the top of a mountain. Students work in teams...
Lesson focuses on how engineers and others have developed and improved the manufacturing of recycled paper. Students work in teams to recycle and manufacture their own recycled paper while learning...
Clipper Creations In this lesson students learn about simple machines. Students design and build a working model of a nail clipper. Explore the basic principles of engineering...
 TryEngineering Hands-on Activity Code-Division Multiplexing Demonstrate the concept of code-division multiplexing. This is the theory behind many wireless technologies. When we use a cell phone our voice...
Complexity - It's Simple This lesson allows students to learn about complexity through illustrative games, teamwork activities and design tasks. Students will gain an intuitive understanding...
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