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Ciese: Scratch My Back
Starting with the book Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup, students use the engineering design process to design a solution to the bear's problem of not being able to scratch an itchy back.
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Ciese Real Time Data Project:s Air Pollution: What's the Solution?
This comprehensive site on air pollutions, sponsored by the Center for Improved Engineering and Science Education at Stevens Institute of Technology, includes worksheets, knowledge-assesment tools, and detailed instructions.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Project: Air Pollution:what Can You Do?
What practical steps can you take to reduce air pollution? Generate some ideas and design a brochure to communicate them.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Wonderful World of Weather: Whichever Way the Wind Blows
Students use the Engineering Design Process to create a windosck that can determine which way the wind is blowing.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Square of Life: Ant Day Care Center
For this lesson, students use the engineering design process to create a home for ants where they can be observed for one day.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Air Pollution: What's the Solution
This is a great set of lesson plans through which students explore air pollution and its causes and become aware of air pollution trends and how air pollution affects health. Many questions are examined during the course of study: "What...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Educational Links: Ask an Expert Sites
Ever wondered about, well, anything? Get your burning question answered here from reigning experts in General Science, Astronomy and Space Science, Biology and Life Sciences, Physics, Oceanography, Geology, Weather, and Health.
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Ciese Collaborative Projects: International Boiling Point Project
The Stevens Institute of Technology has provided this great site with information on boiling points. Classes from around the nation have been encouraged to register, conduct a boiling experiment and post their data. The object is to...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Collaborative Projects: Bucket Buddies: Environmental Study
Bucket Buddies is an opportunity for students to participate in a world-wide environmental study. By identifying organisms in pond water, participating classes can compare their findings, and look for relationships in data. In addition...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Outrider: What Happens in a Bomb Blast?
Interactive tool that in terrifying detail lets you see the impact a nuclear bomb blast would have anywhere in the world, including in your neighborhood. Learn what you can do about it.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese Real Time Data Projects: Movie in the Making
In this project students will report on a book by describing how they would turn that book into a motion picture. After reading and studying the main components of their novel, students will use their imaginations to explain how they...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Stevens Institute of Technology: Buoyancy Simulation
By choosing the mass, size, and time, students can experiment with whether the block floats or sinks in this simulation. Students have the option to display the forces and add a second block to the tank. Density is also shown to allow...
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Musical Plates: Designing an Earthquake Resistant Structure
A lesson where students look at how the sudden movement in an earthquake causes a building to collapse, and how to design a building that can withstand it.
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ciese: Square of Life: Mini Squares of Life
Young scholars use the engineering design process to plan and construct a device for marking out the area for a small square outdoors, so that they can study what is contained inside it.