TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Put a Spark in It! Electricity
Uncountable times every day "with the merest flick of a finger"each one of us calls on electricity to do our bidding. What would your life be like without electricity? Students begin learning about electricity with an introduction to the...
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Drawing Board
In this activity, students will create a pendulum that creates beautiful designs with its repetitive patterns. Study the movement of pendulums with these designs.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Nanostamp
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.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Goody Goody Gumdrop! Building Structures Are Fun!
In this lesson plan, the children will be building a physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object, such as triangles, helps it function. At the end, the children will test their gumdrop structures and the class will...
Other
Daniel Grossman: Airships: Lz 129 Hindenburg
A comprehensive look at the design, history, and crash of the Hindenburg airship. Includes flight plans, engineers' drawings, and photos of the interior and exterior. Many first- and second-person accounts of seeing the Hindenburg can be...
Read Works
Read Works: Architects Design
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about architects. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
The Tech Interactive
The Tech Interactive: Lesson Plan: Catch It if You Can! [Pdf]
Students will learn about the ongoing issues associated with drought in California and how water conservation can be part of a solution. Students will design a rooftop water catchment system for drought-conscious Ms. Drizzle to install...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Clock Tower
This project resulted from the collaboration of a computer aided drafting teacher (pre-engineering), Chris Bond, and a math teacher, Lee Cable, (Hewitt-Trussville High School) to provide higher math expectations in CT and real life...
Other
Discover E: Shoo Bird, Shoo! [Pdf]
In this activity, learners work in teams with a range of materials to choose from to design and build a mobile that warns birds away from a window or a building.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Shaping the Future
Students will utilize new found knowledge of architectural design and engineering to apply math and science skills in building a structure. By using interactive websites, they will create scale drawing plans and design and engineer a...
Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History Museum
Cprr: Lewis Metzler Clement: A Pioneer of the Central Pacific Railroad
Provides biographical information on Lewis Metzler Clement, the chief engineer for the Central Pacific Railroad, who both designed much of the route and supervised construction of the railroad. Includes several primary sources ranging...
Other
Yamaha Music Pal: Flute Factory Tour
Take an online tour through the process of designing and manufacturing a flute. Helpful drawings and animations demonstrate the precision engineering that goes into the making of these musical instruments. (To access the Japanese version...
Read Works
Read Works: The New Clubhouse
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text about a little boy named Max who wanted to fix up his clubhouse. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.