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Teach Engineering: Bone Mineral Density Math and Beer's Law
In this instructional activity learners revisit the mathematics required to find bone mineral density, to which they were introduced in Lesson 2. They will learn the equation to find intensity and how to use it. There is a sheet of...
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Teach Engineering: Detecting Breast Cancer
This instructional activity introduces students to their task of developing a painless means of identifying cancerous tumors. Solving the challenge will depend on an understanding of the properties of stress and strain. After being...
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Teach Engineering: Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law
This lesson offers an introduction to Hooke's Law as well as stress-strain relationships. Students will first learn the governing equations. Then students will work through several example problems first individually, then as a class. In...
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Teach Engineering: Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activity, learners must depict a tumor amidst healthy body tissue using a graph in Microsoft Excel. In addition, students will design a...
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Teach Engineering: Magnetic Materials
Learners begin working on the grand challenge of the unit by thinking about the nature of metals and quick, cost-effective means of separating different metals, especially steel. They arrive at the idea, with the help of input from...
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Teach Engineering: Magnetic Fields
Young scholars visualize the magnetic field of a strong permanent magnet using a compass. The activity begins with an analogy to the effect of the Earth's magnetic field on a compass. Students see the connection that the compass simply...
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Teach Engineering: Electricity and Magnetic Fields
The grand challenge for this legacy cycle unit is for students to design a way to help a recycler separate aluminum from steel scrap metal. In previous lessons, they have looked at how magnetism might be utilized. In this lesson,...
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Teach Engineering: Electromagnets
In this activity, the students will complete the grand challenge and design an electromagnet to separate steel from aluminum for the recycler. In order to do this, students compare the induced magnetic field of an electric current with...
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Teach Engineering: How Antibiotics Work
Students are introduced to a challenge question. Towards answering the question, they generate ideas for what they need to know about medicines and how they move through our bodies, watch a few short videos to gain multiple perspectives,...
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Teach Engineering: Microfluidic Devices and Flow Rate
Students obtain a basic understanding of microfluidic devices, how they are developed and their uses in the medical field. After conducting the associated activity, they watch a video clip and learn about flow rate and how this relates...
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Teach Engineering: Heart to Heart
Students learn about the form and function of the human heart through lecture, research and dissection. They brainstorm ideas that pertain to various heart conditions and organize these ideas into categories that help them research...
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Teach Engineering: Blood Pressure Basics
Students study how heart valves work and investigate how valves that become faulty over time can be replaced with advancements in engineering and technology. Learning about the flow of blood through the heart, students are able to fully...
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Teach Engineering: Pushing It Off a Cliff
Lesson 2 moves into the Research and Revise step and focuses on the conservation of energy solely between gravitational potential energy and kinetic energy. Students start out with a virtual laboratory, and then move into the notes and...
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Teach Engineering: It's Tiggerific!
In Lesson 3, as part of the Research and Revise step, young scholars investigate potential energy held within springs (elastic potential energy). Class begins with a video of either spring shoes or bungee jumping. Students then move on...
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Teach Engineering: How a Hybrid Works
In Lesson 4, students conclude the Research and Revise step of the Legacy Cycle, as they investigate different forms of hybrid engines as well as briefly conclude a look at the different forms of potential energy. Students apply basic...
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Teach Engineering: Latex and Hybrids: What's the Connection?
An engineering challenge where young scholars create small-scale models from which their testing results could be generalized to large-scale latex tubing for a hydraulic accumulator. They brainstorm ideas about how latex can be used in a...
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Teach Engineering: Variables and Graphs: What's Our Story?
Students learn how to quickly and efficiently interpret graphs, which are used for everyday purposes as well as engineering analysis.
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Teach Engineering: The Challenge Question: "Walk the Line"
Students are introduced to the "Walk the Line" challenge question. They are asked to write journal responses to the question and brainstorm what information they need to answer the question. Ideas are shared with the class (or in pairs...
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Teach Engineering: Coordinates and the Cartesian Plane
A brief refresher on the Cartesian plane includes how points are written in (x,y) format and oriented to the axes, and which directions are positive and negative. Then students learn about what it means for a relation to be a function...
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Teach Engineering: Graphing Equations on the Cartesian Plane: Slope
The lesson teaches students about an important characteristic of lines: their slopes. Slope can be determined either in graphical or algebraic form. Slope can also be described as positive, negative, zero or undefined. Students get an...
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Teach Engineering: Forms of Linear Equations
Students learn about four forms of equations: direct variation, slope-intercept form, standard form and point-slope form. They graph and complete problem sets for each, converting from one form of equation to another, and learning the...
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Teach Engineering: Applications of Linear Functions
This lesson culminates the unit with the Go Public phase of the legacy cycle. In the associated activities, students use linear models to depict Hooke's law as well as Ohm's law. To conclude the lesson, students apply they've learned...
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Teach Engineering: The Keepers of the Gate Challenge
Learners are presented with a real-life problem as a challenge to investigate, research and solve. Specifically, they are asked to investigate why salt water helps a sore throat, and how engineers apply this understanding to solve other...
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Teach Engineering: Cell Membrane Structure and Function
Students learn about the different structures that comprise cell membranes, fulfilling part of the Research and Revise stages of the legacy cycle. Students view online animations of cell membrane dynamics (links provided). Then they...