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The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry

Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry: Genetic Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial on genetic engineering. Students work their way through illustrations and animated tutorials about how genetic modification works and the ethical issues surrounding this scientific practice. The last two sections have...
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World Wide Web Virtual Library: Civil Engineering

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is an online library of information about civil engineering.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Broken Bones

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The purpose of this activity is to introduce students to the concept of the engineering design process and to teach them how to apply it. In "Broken Bones," students will explore the steps of the engineering design process. They will...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Engineering Pop Ups

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about applied forces as they create pop-up-books - the art of paper engineering. They also learn the basic steps of the engineering design process.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Chair Design

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students become familiar with the Engineering Design Process as they design and build prototypes for a chair. The miniature chair must be sturdy and functional enough to hold a wooden, hinged artist model or floppy stuffed animal.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Fuel Level Detector

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site contains a challenge for students to engineer a sensor that can detect how much fuel is in your tank. The site also contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Safe Stopping Robot

For Students Pre-K - 1st
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.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Automated Wrapping Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
On this site, find a challenge to design and build a machine that can make plane fuselage by wrapping a mold just like Boeing's carbon fiber placement machines. While working on the challenge, students will find a lesson plan, tips, and...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Electronic Water Level Detector

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a device that will notify people when the water level drops in this challenge. Students will do this by building an open circuit that completes when the water level drops below a certain level and/or goes above a certain level. The...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Self Deploying Device

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Construct a device that opens up when thrown into the air on this website. The website also includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Airfoil

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Do you know how an airplane flys? Use this challenge to learn about flight by building a wing that can generate lift from a fan while carrying weight. Find details about the challenge, tips, and a lesson plan on this site. Also, students...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Flow Control System

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this engineering challenge, students will build a system that controls the movement of material and shuts off automatically. This site includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Skyscraper for the Wind

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A challenge for students to build a skyscraper that stands strong in the wind and is at least 18 inches tall. This challenge includes tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Bird Beak

For Students Pre-K - 1st
In this challenge, students will construct a beak that will allow them to pick up as much food as possible in one try without using their hands. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Space Tool

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using common household items, make a tool that an astronaut could use to pick up an object in space. This site also includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Wind Powered Water Pump

For Students Pre-K - 1st
With this design challenge, students can build a wind-powered turbine that can pump water up from the ground. This site contains tips to complete the design challenge as well as a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Air Powered Spinning Machine

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Engineer an air-powered spinning machine with this site. Site includes a teachers lesson plan, tips, and a place to document the process of creating this machine.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Balloon Helicopter

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you build a balloon helicopter that can fly at least 3 feet from the ground? This site gives a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Redwood Tree

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using recycled paper and tape, students will build a redwood tree that is taller than you and that can stand on its own. The site includes the challenge, tips, lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Landing Device

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Can you design and build a device that will slow down your payload as it falls so it lands gently when dropped from 8 feet high? This website contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Electric Switch

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Using your knowledge of the flow of electricity, do you think you could build a switch that can complete a circuit to turn on an LED? This site contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their...
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Technovation

Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer an Exoskeleton

For Students Pre-K - 1st
This site challenges students to build a wearable device that will detect when your body moves. The site contains tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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University of Houston

University of Houston: Engines of Our Ingenuity: On Making Life Livable

For Students 9th - 10th
Being able to withstand heat and cold is a need shared by rich and poor alike. The author of this speech to the American Society for Heating, Refrigerating, and Air Conditioning Engineers (ASHRAE) provides an anecdotal history of climate...
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PBS

Pbs Mathline: Boeing: Engine Design: Pass the Test

For Students 9th - 10th
In this phase, students will narrow down their engine designs to test.

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