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Teach Engineering: Car Collision Testing & Tradeoffs: Don't Crack Humpty

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Student groups are provided with a generic car base on which to design a device/enclosure to protect an egg as it rolls down a ramp at increasing slopes. During this activity, student teams design, build and test their prototype...

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The Design Museum: Lesson Plan: Redesign Your Kitchenware

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

Students will learn about the unique kettle invented by designer Philippe Starck. He designed the Hot Bertaa kettle to be different from everything else available. There was no lid to pour the water in, no handle, and no way of plugging...

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Try Engineering: Engineer a Cane

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This instructional activity focuses on how engineers improve assistive devices such as a cane to meet the needs of the elderly. Students work in teams to re-engineer a cane for a "client." They are assigned a client profile, develop a...

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Teach Engineering: Rockets on a Shoestring Budget

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

In this activity, students revisit the Pop Rockets activity from Lesson 3. This time, however, the design of their pop-rockets will be limited by budgets and supplies. They will get a feel for the limitations of a real engineering...

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Teach Engineering: Making Decisions: Packaging and the Environment

For Teachers 9th - 10th

This activity has students redesign and justify the packaging currently used in some consumer products. Design criteria include reducing the amount of packaging material by 25%.

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Teach Engineering: Design Step 7: Improve and Redesign/manufacture a Product

For Teachers 9th - 10th

As students learn more about the manufacturing process, they use what they learned from testing their designs in the previous activity to continue to improve and redesign. Students also have the opportunity to manufacture their final...

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American Society for Engineering Education: Building for Hurricanes

For Teachers 2nd - 8th

In this engineering design challenge about building in hurricane-prone regions, students learn that a solid base helps stabilize a structure by constructing, testing, and redesigning a tower that can support a tennis ball at least 18...

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Teach Engineering: Android App Development

For Teachers 9th - 10th

Students develop an app for an Android device that utilizes its built-in internal sensors, specifically the accelerometer. The goal of this activity is to teach programming design and skills using MIT's App Inventor software (free to...

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Try Engineering: Assembly Line

For Teachers 9th - 10th

The core of this lesson is about the power of mass production. Learners will first assemble a product individually, then work in teams to design, build, test, and redesign an assembly line whose product must meet quality control...

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Teach Engineering: String Telephones

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

Students investigate how sound travels through string and air. First, they analyze the sound waves with a paper cup attached to a string. Then, they combine the string and cup with a partner to model a string telephone. Finally, they are...

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Teach Engineering: Biomimicry: Echolocation in Robotics

For Teachers 6th - 8th

Students use ultrasonic sensors and LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots to emulate how bats use echolocation to detect obstacles. They measure the robot's reaction times as it senses objects at two distances and with different sensor threshold...

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The Design Museum: Can You Redesign an Object to Make It Easier to Use?

For Teachers 3rd - 5th

Grant Douglas has cerebral palsy and needs assistance to eat. While he was sitting at home being fed cornflakes by his mum, the phone rang. She answered it and as she talked, Grant could see his cornflakes getting soggier and soggier....

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Teach Engineering: Wait Program!

For Teachers 4th - 8th

After completing an associated lesson, students test their understanding in two programming tasks that utilize LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT robots and sound/touch sensors. Students gain practice in the iterative design-program-test-redesign process.

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Bio Ed Online: Rockets

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st

In this series of lessons students will learn about engineering and design principles by designing, building, launching, testing and redesigning their own rockets.

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Launch It (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to design an air-powered rocket to take you to the moon that can hit a distant target. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Watercraft (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build an unsinkable boat out of straws and plastic wrap that can hold twenty five pennies. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Also, includes...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Zip Line (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to design and build a ping-pong ball carrier that can go from the top of a zip line string to the bottom in four seconds or less. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Touchdown (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a shock-absorbing system that will protect astronauts when they land on the moon. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Roving on the Moon (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a rubber band-powered cardboard car (rover) that can scramble across the room. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign the car if necessary. Activity focuses on...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Heavy Lifting (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a cardboard crane for a moon mission and see how heavy a load it can lift. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: On Target (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to modify a paper cup so it can zip down a line and launch a marble on a target. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, evaluate, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Feel the Heat (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to heat things up by building a solar hot water heater. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign it if necessary. Activity focuses on the engineering design process and the...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: Dance Pad Mania (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a dance pad that lets you use your feet to either flash a light or to sound a buzzer. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to design, build, test, and redesign the pad if necessary. Activity...

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Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: High Rise (Pdf) [Pdf]

For Students 3rd - 8th

Hands-on challenge to build a tall tower that can support a tennis ball. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary, or take it to the next level. Activity focuses on the engineering...

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