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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Action Reaction Rocket!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students make a rocket that travels along a string to discover the role that Newton's Laws of Motion play in engineering.
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Unit Plan
Other

Neef: Greening Stem Toolkit

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The National Environmental Education Foundation is greening the STEM program in an effort to attend to the demands of the environmental challenges facing the nation and the world in the 21st Century. Lessons included in this toolkit...
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Interactive
South Carolina Educational Television

Etv: The Hobby Shop: The Rocket

For Students 9th - 10th
Design your own virtual rocket, and then test launch it. Watch tutorials about Newton's laws of motion and rocket basics to help you improve your rocket's performance.
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Interactive
United Nations

Unesco Institute for Statistics: Women in Science

For Students 9th - 10th
Just 30% of researchers are women. Explore the data to see where they work and their fields of research in countries around the world.
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Unit Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

Know It All Media: Nasa Online

For Students 9th - 10th
Find award-winning science, math and technology videos and interactives for grades K-12 produced by NASA and provided for distribution to South Carolina ETV's Knowitall.
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Unit Plan
South Carolina Educational Television

South Carolina Etv Commission: Nasa Connect

For Students 6th - 8th
An inquiry-based award-winning series of instructional programs which establish a connection between math, science, and technology concepts. Each episode of the series includes a 30-minute broadcast, a companion lesson guide, and an...
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Lesson Plan
NASA

Nasa: Introduction to Earth's Dynamically Changing Climate

For Teachers 9th - 10th
NASA and PBS have joined forces to provide a lesson plan that will enable young scholars to analyze data that documents a warming planet. Videos and other necessary documents for the lesson plan are provided. PBS TeacherLine also...
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Unit Plan
NBC

Nbc Learn: Science of Golf

For Students 9th - 10th
Collection of short original video clips uncovers the science, technology, engineering and math behind the game of golf. The video series features both scientists and pro golfers and lessons plans are provided to accompany the videos.
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PPT
PBS

Nova: Tech & Engineering: Medieval Stained Glass Science

For Students 9th - 10th
In this historical interactive, see beautiful examples of stained glass artistry, and learn how the craftsmen of the Middle Ages used chemistry to create them.
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Website
Other

Engineer Girl: Careers

For Students 9th - 10th
Doesn't an engineer drive a train? Yes, but the career of engineering is so much more! Explore this comprehensive list of all types of engineering careers. Learn what each entails, find out how to plan for them, learn how to set up job...
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Website
Other

Georgia Institute of Technology: Ceismc

For Students Pre-K - 1st
The Center for Education Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing is featured for their encouragement of students pursuing STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) careers and furthering teachers' training in the...
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Website
PBS

Kqed Quest: A Different Kind of Science and Nature Adventure

For Students 9th - 10th
A multimedia offering for teachers and learners to explore the latest science, nature, and environment stories.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about energy flow in food webs, including the roles of the sun, producers, consumers and decomposers in the energy cycle. They model a food web and create diagrams of food webs using their own drawings and/or images from...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering and the Periodic Table

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about the periodic table and how pervasive the elements are in our daily lives. After reviewing the table organization and facts about the first 20 elements, they play an element identification game. They also learn that...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Great Gravity Escape

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use water balloons and a length of string to understand how gravity and the velocity of a spacecraft balance to form an orbit. They see that when the velocity becomes too great for gravity to hold onto an object, the...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Edible Rovers High School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers, designing, building and displaying their edible rovers to a design review. To begin, they evaluate rover equipment and material options to determine which parts might fit in their given...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This hands-on activity explores five different forms of erosion (chemical, water, wind, glacier and temperature). Students rotate through stations and model each type of erosion on rocks, soils and minerals. The students record their...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bumps and Bruises

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students learn about the role engineers play in creating protective gear for sports. Students then build a protective landing pad to catch a dropped egg without it breaking
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Survive That Tsunami!

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students use a table-top-sized tsunami generator to observe the formation and devastation of a tsunami. They see how a tsunami moves across the ocean and what happens when it reaches the continental shelf. Students make villages of model...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Breaking Beams

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students learn about stress and strain by designing and building beams using polymer clay. They compete to find the best beam strength to beam weight ratio, and learn about the trade-offs engineers make when designing a structure.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Build Your Own Insect Trap

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this hands-on activity students design a trap to catch a fictional insect. They must build the trap based on things they learn about the insect.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Problem Solve Your School

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students apply what they have learned about the engineering design process to a real-life problem that affects them and/or their school. They chose a problem as a group, and then follow the engineering design process to come up with and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Hot Problem Solving

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Student teams follow the steps of the engineering design process to meet the challenge of getting their entire class from one location on the playground to the sidewalk without touching the ground between. The class develops a well...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Focus on Fabrics: Putting Materials to Good Use

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The goal is for students to understand the basics of engineering associated with the use, selection, and properties of fabrics. A wide variety of natural and synthetic fibers are used in our clothing, home furnishings and in our travel...