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Try Engineering: Engineering Air Traffic
Students work in teams to explore how radar and computer technology is used to provide the necessary data to air traffic controllers. Students become "engineers" as they work to find ways to enhance the current air traffic control system.
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Try Engineering: Can You Canoe?
Teams of students learn about the engineering design process as they design, build, and test a model canoe made with everyday materials. Lesson focuses on how materials engineering has impacted the manufacturing of canoes over time.
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Try Engineering: Measuring the Wind
Young scholars explore the design of anemometers and how they are used in measuring the speed of wind. Working in teams of "engineers", they will design, build, and evaluate the effectiveness of their own anemometers, presenting their...
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Try Engineering: Assembly Line
The core of this lesson is about the power of mass production. Students will first assemble a product individually, then work in teams to design, build, test, and redesign an assembly line whose product must meet quality control...
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Try Engineering: Blast Off
Hands on activity where students focus on aerospace engineering to investigate space flight from the viewpoint of an engineer. They design, build, and launch their rocket, then share their experiences with the class.
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Try Engineering: Pendulum Time
Working in teams, students build their own pendulum clock using everyday materials. They conduct research, design, build, test it, and share observations with the class, while learning how pendulums operate and have been used to measure...
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Teach Engineering: Design Step 3: Brainstorm Possible Solutions
Brainstorming is a team creativity activity that helps generate a large number of potential solutions to a problem. In this activity, students participate in a group brainstorming activity to generate possible solutions to their...
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Teach Engineering: Environmental Interactions
In this activity, students create a "web" to identify and demonstrate the interactions among the living and non-living parts of an environment. This information allows students to better understand what an environment is and to also...
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Teach Engineering: For Those Back Home
Students review information learned during the past five lessons and activities of the Introduction to Engineering unit. Working in teams, they create flyers and short quizzes about various types of engineering to share with the class...
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Teach Engineering: Team Up!
Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. They develop their observing, thinking, writing and teamwork skills by working on a group art project and reporting about it. They learn about...
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Teach Engineering: The Crash Scene
Fifth graders are introduced to the (hypothetical) scenario in which they are a team of EnviroTech engineers returning to the U.S. from a conference in Brasilia, Brazil. When their plane crashes deep in the Amazon forest, they work in...
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Try Engineering: Working With Wind Energy
Students use the engineering design process to build a working windmill out of everyday materials. Lesson explores the technology behind wind energy being used to generate energy in businesses and homes worldwide.
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Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Funology: Games
Here is a list of games for elementary age children. The games include simple directions, and can be played in a variety of settings and with a variety of number of players. Includes games for one player and games for indoor and outdoor...
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Try Engineering: Working With Watermills
Teams of students design, build, test, and evaluate a working watermill made from everyday materials. Lesson explores how watermills generate energy from water, while students gain an understanding of the structural engineering design...
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Points of Light
The mission of the organization is to instill compassion and the idea of service and philanthropy in school children. Find out how to start a Care Club and what projects the children can participate in.
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Uen: Stringing Good Teams Together
First graders will identify, discuss, and engage in appropriate team building behaviors.
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Try Engineering: Making Sense of Sensors
Lesson explore sensors focusing on ones that measure humidity. Students work in teams to design, build, test, and evaluate a hygrometer which was made out of everyday materials to measure humidity levels.
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Pbs Learning Media: Uno Fitness Lesson Plan
This lesson plan uses the popular card game, UNO. Young scholars form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on...
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Ad lit.org: Cross Disciplinary Proficiencies: American Diploma Project Benchmarks
Students must graduate from high school with not only a firm foundation in mathematics and English, but also with the ability to approach with confidence new and unfamiliar tasks and challenges in college, the workplace and life....
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Try Engineering: The Power of Graphene
In this engineering instructional activity, students learn about nanotechnology, graphene, and its electrical properties and applications. Teams of students test graphene to determine whether it is an electrical conductor or insulator,...
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Try Engineering: Telescoping Periscope
Working in teams of "engineers", students explore how a periscope works and is used. They design, build, and test a working periscope made from everyday materials that has adjustable mirrors and be able to telescope as well.
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Try Engineering: Electric Messages: Then and Now
Lesson investigates electronic communication from the Morse Code system to text messaging. To learn about this, students construct simple circuits, send messages to each other, and explore the history and impact of communication.