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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students investigate the concepts and relationships of speed, displacement and time. They capture the serve motion of a tennis player via video or digital camera and analyze the speed of the ball and racquet head.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

GPS Receiver Basics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice using a GPS receiver. They walk in different directions and monitor their progress on maps. They enter specific locations and use information given to them to get them back to their original locations.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Utah Indian Contributions

For Teachers 4th
Fourth graders study the contributions from the Utah Indian tribes and present their finding either orally or in a PowerPoint.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Motion Capture and Analysis

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Pupils capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Angle Measurement and the AD-1 Aircraft

For Teachers 7th - 8th
Students represent and solve problems using geometric models and apply geometric properties and relationships. They also practice constructing and measuring angles. By constructing, drawing, visualizing, and comparing geometric figures...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Beginning Analogies 9

For Students 4th - 5th
In this analogies worksheet, students read the word pairs and choose the answer that best expresses a relationship similar to the original pair.
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Breaking News English: Dentist Drill Noise Reducer Invented

For Students 5th - 10th
In this English worksheet, students read " Dentist Drill Noise Reducer Invented," and then respond to 1 essay, 47 fill in the blank, 7 short answer, 20 matching, and 8 true or false questions about the selection.
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Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering in Sports

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Intro to Engineering

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students are introduced to the basic principles behind engineering and the types of engineering while learning about a popular topic - the Olympics. The involvement of engineering in modern sports is amazing and pervasive. Students learn...
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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: 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...
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Lesson Plan
TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Engineered Sports

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work in teams to investigate how aerospace engineering relates to sports, especially golf ball design and the physics of bounce. They use this information to determine whether these aerospace principles can be applied to...
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Handout
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Engineering Behind Levi's Stadium

For Students 9th - 10th
Through its engineering and design, Levi's Stadium has aimed to provide the best fan experience of all of the stadiums and has changed the dynamics of live sporting events.
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Handout
BBC

Bbc: Sport's Genetic Engineering Concerns

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the growing concern that people have with genetic engineering and sports. In the site there are links to other sports stories that deal with the problem of genetic engineering.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Sneaking Up on Sneakers

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
This activity explores why different types of sneakers are used in a variety of common sports. It connects how engineers analyze design needs in sneakers and everyday items. The goal is for students to understand the basics of...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Able Sports

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity focuses on getting the students to think about disabilities and how they can make some aspects of life more difficult. The students are asked to pick a disability and design a new kind of sport for it.
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Ball Bounce Experiment

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Many of today's popular sports are based around the use of a ball, yet none are completely alike. In fact they are all designed with specific characteristics in mind. Students will investigate different balls' abilities to bounce and...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Protect Those Eyes

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students design and build prototypes for protective eyewear. They choose different activities or sports that require protective eyewear and design a device for that particular use. Students learn about the many ways in which the eyes can...
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Website
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)

Ingenious: Sport and the Technology of Winning

For Students 9th - 10th
Has technology improved or hindered sports? This question is researched in the areas of tennis racket engineering, disability sports equipment, and high tech horse racing.
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Website
Other

Yandex Russian Internet Search Portal

For Students 9th - 10th
Yandex is known as the number one Internet search engine and number one portal in Russia. The main page offers links to various sites grouped under education, culture, sports, society, employment, and others, which in turn have links to...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Flying T Shirts

For Teachers 9th - 10th
During this engineering design/build project, students investigate many different solutions to a problem. Their design challenge is to find a way to get school t-shirts up into the stands during home sporting events. They follow the...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Measuring Our Muscles

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Student teams build model hand dynamometers used to measure grip strengths of people recovering from sports injuries. They use their models to measure how much force their classmates muscles are capable of producing, and analyze the data...
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Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What's the Conductivity of Gatorade?

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students use conductivity meters to measure various salt and water solutions, as indicated by the number of LEDs (light emitting diodes) that illuminate on the meter. Students create calibration curves using known amounts of table salt...
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Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Energy of Motion

For Teachers 6th - 8th
By taking a look at the energy of motion all around us, students learn about the types of energy and their characteristics. They first learn about the two simplest forms of mechanical energy: kinetic and potential energy, as illustrated...