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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Learn to Draw Proportions

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this challenge, students will draw an animal with accurate proportions. The website includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their process.
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Handout
University of California

Ucla Mathematics: Triple Integral

For Students 9th - 10th
Detailed site explaining the triple integral from the UCLA Mathematics department. Includes equations and examples.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Magnetic Nanoparticle Coating

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Interested in nanoparticles? Use this challenge to design a coating for a magnet that will pick up different surfaces. Challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Lesson Plan
Discovery Education

Discovery Education: Lesson Plans Library K 5

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
This resource presents a lesson plan library which holds hundreds of lesson plans organized by grade level and subject area. Often rooted with an Internet research piece, each lesson plan contains specific objectives, procedures,...
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Website
Rice University

Rice University: Cynthia Lanius: Fun Mathematics Lessons

For Students 3rd - 8th
This resource has mathematics lessons for different levels, from counting to slope. In English and Spanish.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Bird Beak

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this challenge, students will construct a beak that will allow them to pick up as much food as possible in one try without using their hands. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Disperse Seeds Far and Wide

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students are challenged to engineer a device that will carry a seed at least 3 feet from where it is launched. Students are given access to a site that gives them tips, and a place to document their engineering design process. Also, a...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Space Tool

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household items, make a tool that an astronaut could use to pick up an object in space. This site also includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Crank Mechanism

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this challenge, students will transfer rotational motion into linear motion by building a simple machine. The site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Invent a Biobot

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a robot that moves like a living creature using a microcontroller, motors, and mechanisms with this challenge. Also, on this challenge find a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Structure That Assembles Itself

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using magnets design and build a structure that builds itself from pieces. This site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a 3 D Object Out of Tetrahedra

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you build a 3-D object out of tetrahedra that is as big as you are? With this challenge, students will be using common household items to build their tetrahedra structure. Site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Cantilever

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a cantilever that can hold 5 marbles at least 12 inches away from its base structure with this engineering challenge. The site contains the challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Construct a Crane

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you build a crane that uses simple machines and mechanical advantage to move heavy objects? This website contains a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Balance a Dinosaur

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a dinosaur at least 6" tall that can balance on two legs using counterbalances. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dna Origami Inspired Structure

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using pasta students will design and construct a container that can travel along a zip line to deliver a cargo which is candy. This challenge is explored on this site as well as tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Long Spanning Wing

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Students are challenged to build a wing that can support its own weight over a span of at least two feet on this website. The website also contains a place for students to document their engineering design process, tips, and a lesson plan.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Set of Mechanical Genes

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Design a set of mechanical genes that control the way something grows with this challenge on this site. This site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make Identical Quantum Dots

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using different materials students will create spheres that are all the same size. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Nanopipe

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this design challenge, students will build walls within a tube so different objects are separated as they travel through the tube. The site contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Nanostamp

For Students Pre-K - 1st
On this challenge, students will create a stamp to reproduce a drawing from a meter away quickly and accurately. This challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Education Place

Houghton Mifflin: Eduplace: Kids' Place Mathematics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Educational publisher Houghton Mifflin provides a colorful, engaging site that offers test-prep practice, test-taking strategies, and brain teasers on a variety of math concepts for grades 1-6. Just "Choose an activity and pick a grade,"...
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Mathline: Fantasy Baseball Lesson Plan [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will be given baseball trading cards to use the decimals and ratios to participate in a fantasy baseball game. Printable lesson