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Ei E: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 2
Students think like optical engineers as they explore how light interacts with a variety of materials. [12:50]
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Ei E: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Omar, a boy from Egypt, learns about optical engineering as he helps design his own lighting system. [14:51]
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Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 3 Part 2
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [8:55]
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Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 2
Students think like geotechnical engineers as they take core samples of a model building site and decide how deeply the pier foundations for a model skyscraper should be anchored into the soil. [11:40]
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Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 2
Students think like agricultural engineers as they perform a play about Integrated Pest Management at an apple orchard. [12:15]
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Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 2
Students think like agricultural engineers as they perform a play about Integrated Pest Management at an apple orchard. [8:47]
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Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 4 Part 1
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [13:19]
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Ei E: Catching the Wind: Designing Windmills Lesson 3 Part 2
Students predict, test, observe, and describe how sails made of different materials and shapes catch the wind. [15:00]
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Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Michelle, a girl from Canada, learns about chemical engineering as she attempts to design a play dough making process to share with her hockey teammates. [7:02]
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Ei E: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 2
Students think like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [10:01]
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Ei E: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 3 Part 2
Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [10:28]
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Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 3 Part 1
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [8:35]
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Ei E: Spotlight Videos
These six Spotlight Videos from Engineering is Elementary demonstrate to teachers effective classroom practices and strategies for introducing engineering concepts to students.
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Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters Lesson 4
Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters. [11:30]
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Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 1
This teacher introduces an engineering challenge with a story. The main character, Javier, a boy from Texas, learns about civil engineering as he designs his own bridge. [8:57]
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Eie: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 3
Watch footage of lesson where students perform a controlled test of three types of bridges to see how much weight the bridges can support. [13:07]
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Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 4
This model lesson shows students applying their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges. [14:07]
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Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters Lesson 3
View a portion of this model lesson where students test a variety of filter materials to see how well they remove particles and color from contaminated water. [12:25]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 2
This model lesson shows students thinking like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [11:54]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 3
Watch as a teacher engages her fifth-grade students in several experiments to learn more about the properties of magnets. [7:03]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 4
Watch as students use their knowledge of the properties of magnets and the Engineering Design Process to design a maglev transportation system. [13:50]
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Eie: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 3 Part 1
Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [11:51]
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Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 2
Students think like civil engineers in this model lesson as they observe how forces affect structures and implement engineering solutions to balance forces and prevent structural failure. [9:58]
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Eie: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 1
Watch as a teacher introduces an engineering challenge with the story, Hikaru, where a boy from Japan, learns about transportation engineering as he attempts to design a small Maglev transportation system for his parents' toy store. [14:21]