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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Medical Instrumentation

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will discuss the special considerations that must be made when dealing with the human body, and will gain an appreciation for the amazing devices that have improved our quality of life. They will also explore how 'Form Fits...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Can You Taste It?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Few people are aware of how crucial the sense of smell is to identifying foods, or the adaptive value of being able to identify a food as being familiar and therefore safe to eat. In this lesson plan and activity, students conduct an...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Skyscrapers are one of the most glorified products of Civil Engineering and contain an interesting history of progress and development. In this lesson, the students will learn about the history of the world's tallest free standing...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Viral Hijackers

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students learn how viruses invade host cells and hijack the hosts' cell-reproduction mechanisms in order to make new viruses, which can in turn attack additional host cells. Students also learn how the immune system responds to a viral...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Population Growth in Yeasts

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is the second of two that explore cellular respiration and population growth in yeasts. In the first lesson, students set up a simple way to indirectly observe and quantify the amount of respiration occurring in...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is a Motor? How Does a Rotation Sensor Work?

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students learn about electric motors and rotational sensors. They create a basic program using the LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT interface to control a motor to move a small robot.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Is Gis?

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Geographic information systems (GIS) are important technology that allows rapid study and use of spatial information. GIS have become increasingly prevalent in industry and the consumer/internet world in the last 20 years. Historically,...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Projections and Coordinates: Turning a 3 D Earth Into Flatlands

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Projections and coordinates are key advancements in the geographic sciences that allow us to better understand the nature of the Earth and how to describe location. These innovations in describing the Earth are the basis for everything...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Strongest Pump of All

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this lesson plan the students will learn how the heart functions. Students will be introduced to the concept of action potential generation. The lesson plan will explain how action potential generation causes the electrical current...
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Nature Is an Engineering Marvel

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson introduces learners to the concepts of biomicry and sustainable design. Students will learn to illustrate the wisdom of nature by demonstratiing how organisms adapt to their environment.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Exploring the Forces of Tension

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will review their knowledge of tension and focus on tensile loads and failure caused by them.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Investigating Torque

For Teachers 6th - 9th
This lesson focuses on torsion as a force acting upon structures. Students will have the opportunity to design something to withstand this force.
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Lesson Plan
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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Website
NASA

Nasa: Jsc Home Page

For Students 9th - 10th
NASA's Johnson Space Center is located near Houston, Texas and was constructed as "the primary center for: design, development testing of spacecraft and associated systems for human flight; selection and training of astronauts; planning...
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Stanford University

Stanford University Department of Electrical Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the homepage of the Stanford University of Department of Electrical Engineering. There are links to information on research, academics, seminars, faculty, etc.
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Website
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Engineering: Ask an Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource is composed of student questions for engineers, and provides information on a variety of scientific topics such as devising science fair projects, planning scientific experiments and getting into a school like MIT for...
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Other

Univ. Of Missouri Rolla: Materials Science&engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
University of Missouri Rolla website devoted to the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. The site includes information on ceramics research, faculty, degrees, etc.
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Website
University of California

Mechanical Engineering at Uc Berkeley

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website for the University of California at Berkeley's Department of Mechanical Engineering.
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Handout
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Mechanical Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website for the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Website
Other

American Society of Naval Engineers: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
This is the website for the American Society of Naval Engineers. This is the professional society for those engineers involved in Naval engineering.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Engineering: Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (Da Rt) Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the world of engineering straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive tutorial.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Engineering: Getting Started With Auto Cad

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the world of engineering straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this AutoCAD interactive.
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Unit Plan
Sophia Learning

Sophia: Engineering: Mentos Challenge 2 Day Lesson

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the world of engineering straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this interactive lesson.
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Activity
Interactive Mathematics

Interactive Mathematics: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This is a comprehensive tutorial on Exponential and Logarithmic Functions