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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

Lesson explores the engineering behind the conveyor belt and considers the impact this invention has had on transportation and the coordinated shipping and delivery of goods. Students work in teams...
 TryEngineering Hands-on Activity Coverage and Capacity Analysis of a WiFi Network Wireless networking has continued to be a very interesting topic in today’s communications society, as it...
Lesson focuses on how computerized barcodes have improved efficiency in product distribution; explores the barcoding process and engineering design.
Lesson focuses on issues civil engineers face, including critical load and how to reinforce the design of a structure to hold more weight.
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 how...
Desert Island Survival Students will hear a story of Sir Charlie who is trying to survive living on a deserted island. His biggest challenge has been...
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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 unitsprimary and secondary sourceshands-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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