Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Structure That Assembles Itself
Using magnets design and build a structure that builds itself from pieces. This site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a 3 D Object Out of Tetrahedra
Can you build a 3-D object out of tetrahedra that is as big as you are? With this challenge, students will be using common household items to build their tetrahedra structure. Site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Cantilever
Make a cantilever that can hold 5 marbles at least 12 inches away from its base structure with this engineering challenge. The site contains the challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Construct a Crane
Can you build a crane that uses simple machines and mechanical advantage to move heavy objects? This website contains a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Balance a Dinosaur
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a dinosaur at least 6" tall that can balance on two legs using counterbalances. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dna Origami Inspired Structure
Using pasta students will design and construct a container that can travel along a zip line to deliver a cargo which is candy. This challenge is explored on this site as well as tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Long Spanning Wing
Students are challenged to build a wing that can support its own weight over a span of at least two feet on this website. The website also contains a place for students to document their engineering design process, tips, and a lesson plan.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Set of Mechanical Genes
Design a set of mechanical genes that control the way something grows with this challenge on this site. This site also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot
A challenge for students to design and engineer a robot that turns itself off when it leaves a safe area. This challenge contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make Identical Quantum Dots
Using different materials students will create spheres that are all the same size. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Nanopipe
In this design challenge, students will build walls within a tube so different objects are separated as they travel through the tube. The site contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Nanostamp
On this challenge, students will create a stamp to reproduce a drawing from a meter away quickly and accurately. This challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Telling Time to the Hour
This lesson plan helps children make a connection between the digital and analog clock. In general, the number system is based on units of ten which can sometimes make it difficult for children to realize that time is based on cycles of...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Teacher Support Toolbox Library
A collection of teacher resources including standards-aligned lessons and units for science, social studies, math, and science for grades K-12.
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Dr. Seuss Lesson Plans
What is your favorite Dr. Seuss story? Web English Teacher may be offering you resources to teach it right here! Also contains links to biographical information.
Other
Aia Michigan: Architecture: It's Elementary!
The It's Elementary! curriculum guide is home to numerous lesson plans and activities designed for teaching architecture to students in grades K-5. You'll find activities involving math, science, visual art, and social studies. Includes...
Songs for Teaching
Songs for Teaching
Finding music to use to teach across the curriculum is no longer a problem once you use this site. Songs are grouped by subject area, and cover classroom management as well as content areas. There even lesson plans and ideas from other...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Partying With Two/three Digit Whole Numbers
The purpose of this lesson is to apply the operations of addition to solve problems using multiple strategies. The students will communicate their math knowledge during the process by showing examples and discussing their work. This...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Seeds: How They Grow
The students will be collecting, germinating and planting seeds to show the process of plant growth. The students will be recording the information in their science journal. In addition, the students will be observing the water cycle as...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Making Measuring Meaningful!
This activity helps students recognize that measuring tools can come in many different shapes and sizes. The student's will develop creative-thinking, math, and social skills as they use nontraditional and traditional measuring tools....
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: What Can Shapes Be
This is a hands-on lesson plan that will help young scholars explore shapes in their environment. Students will work in diverse groups to complete this activity. Young scholars will make a class book of their findings.This lesson plan...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Promise of a Seed
In this lesson, students will plant seeds, record the changes, and connect the relationship of seeds to plants. This lesson should be taught at the beginning of plant unit.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls Engaged in...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: May the Force Be With You!
The goal of this lesson is to provide students with hands on experiences, while learning about magnets. This lesson engages students in experiments which explore magnet use. An emphasis is placed on open-ended questions which encourage...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: The Water Cycle
This is an introductory lesson on the water cycle. The internet will be used to help teach the cycle. The student will end the lesson by making his/her own water cycle for observation.This lesson plan was created as a result of the Girls...