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Teach Engineering: Team Up!
Students explore the physical and psychological effect of stress and tension on human beings. They develop their observing, thinking, writing and teamwork skills by working on a group art project and reporting about it. They learn about...
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Teach Engineering: The Crash Scene
Fifth graders are introduced to the (hypothetical) scenario in which they are a team of EnviroTech engineers returning to the U.S. from a conference in Brasilia, Brazil. When their plane crashes deep in the Amazon forest, they work in...
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Try Engineering: Working With Wind Energy
Students use the engineering design process to build a working windmill out of everyday materials. Lesson explores the technology behind wind energy being used to generate energy in businesses and homes worldwide.
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Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Kqed: Quest: Education: Media Making Toolkit [For the Science Classroom]
A comprehensive guide to integrating media-making into a science classroom provides an engaging way for students to demonstrate knowledge and build 21st-century learning skills. Supplies tools for teachers to make science-based media,...
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Funology: Games
Here is a list of games for elementary age children. The games include simple directions, and can be played in a variety of settings and with a variety of number of players. Includes games for one player and games for indoor and outdoor...
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Try Engineering: Working With Watermills
Teams of students design, build, test, and evaluate a working watermill made from everyday materials. Lesson explores how watermills generate energy from water, while students gain an understanding of the structural engineering design...
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Points of Light
The mission of the organization is to instill compassion and the idea of service and philanthropy in school children. Find out how to start a Care Club and what projects the children can participate in.
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Uen: Stringing Good Teams Together
First graders will identify, discuss, and engage in appropriate team building behaviors.
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Try Engineering: Making Sense of Sensors
Lesson explore sensors focusing on ones that measure humidity. Students work in teams to design, build, test, and evaluate a hygrometer which was made out of everyday materials to measure humidity levels.
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Pbs Learning Media: Uno Fitness Lesson Plan
This lesson uses the popular card game, UNO. Students form small groups, and then take turns picking up cards and performing a specific exercise. Each card color has a designated exercise associated with it and the number on the card...
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Ad lit.org: Cross Disciplinary Proficiencies: American Diploma Project Benchmarks
Students must graduate from high school with not only a firm foundation in mathematics and English, but also with the ability to approach with confidence new and unfamiliar tasks and challenges in college, the workplace and life....
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Try Engineering: The Power of Graphene
In this engineering lesson, students learn about nanotechnology, graphene, and its electrical properties and applications. Teams of students test graphene to determine whether it is an electrical conductor or insulator, then develop...
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Try Engineering: Telescoping Periscope
Working in teams of "engineers", students explore how a periscope works and is used. They design, build, and test a working periscope made from everyday materials that has adjustable mirrors and be able to telescope as well.
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Try Engineering: Electric Messages: Then and Now
Lesson investigates electronic communication from the Morse Code system to text messaging. To learn about this, students construct simple circuits, send messages to each other, and explore the history and impact of communication.
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Try Engineering: Flashlights and Batteries
Students work in teams to explore how a flashlight works. This activity examines the topics of batteries, electron flow, circuit systems, switches, and bulbs.
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Try Engineering: Getting Your Bearings
Students learn about teamwork and problem solving in this instructional activity that focuses on friction and how ball bearings are used to reduce it.
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Try Engineering: Give Me a Brake
Activity investigates the concept of how bicycle brakes use force and friction to stop or slow mechanical motion. Students work in teams to devise a simple braking system while suggesting improvements to current bicycle brake design.
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Try Engineering: Pulleys and Force
Learners work in teams to learn how pulleys and pulley systems impact everyday life. This activity explores the concept of force and shows how the use of pulleys can greatly reduce required force.
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Try Engineering: Series and Parallel Circuits
The core of this lesson plan is simple circuits and the differences between parallel and series circuit design. Students perform experiments to test the differences between the two circuit designs using low voltage light bulbs.
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Try Engineering: Hand Biometrics Technology
Lesson probes how biometrics technologies have been used worldwide to address security and identification systems. After exploring different biometric techniques, students work in teams to find their own hand geometry biometrics, then...
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Try Engineering: Infrared Investigations
Engineers use infrared technology to develop equipment and systems for a variety of industries. Teams of students are challenged to test the limitations of infrared in a basic television remote control to conceive a way to point infrared...
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Try Engineering: Pipeline Challenge
Students become "engineers" as they learn how to develop pipeline systems for transportation. In this lesson, they work in teams to design, develop, and execute a pipeline plan to transport both a golf ball and a ping pong ball from one...
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Try Engineering: A Question of Balance
Students work in teams to fill jars with a product that is uniform in weight or count. Lesson investigates how manufacturing engineers use weight scales and measurement to develop systems that can create consistent products.