Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: 20/20 Vision

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
In this activity, students determine their own eyesight and calculate what a good average eyesight value for the class would be. Students learn about technologies to enhance eyesight and how engineers play an important role in the...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Grand Challenge: Simulating Human Vision

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students are introduced to the Robotics Peripheral Vision Grand Challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they require to answer the question. Their ideas are shared...
Handout
PBS

Pbs Nature Critter Guide: Porcupine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This PBS Critter Guide site tells you how many quills the average porcupine has as well as other facts about this creature's natural history in text and pictures.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Makes Up a Color?

For Teachers 11th - 12th
As a part of the research and revise step of the Legacy Cycle, this lesson plan provides students with information they will need later on to be able to average pixels to simulate blurring in the peripheral plane of vision. Students...
Activity
PBS

Pbs: Who Made America?: Innovators: Henry Ford

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page profile of influential innovator, Henry Ford, whose vision and ideas created low-cost forms of production that made cars affordable to the average American.