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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Truss Destruction

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students work within constraints to construct model trusses and then test them to failure as a way to evaluate the relative strength of different truss configurations and construction styles. Each student group uses Popsicle sticks and...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Building Our Bridge to Fun!

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Students identify different bridge designs and construction materials used in modern day engineering. They work in construction teams to create paper bridges and spaghetti bridges based on existing bridge designs. Students progressively...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Feel the Stress

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Working individually or in groups, students explore the concept of stress (compression) through physical experience and math. They discover why it hurts more to poke themselves with mechanical pencil lead than with an eraser. Then they...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson will introduce students to the five fundamental loads: compression, tension, shear, bending, and torsion.
Lesson Plan
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College

Serc: Balloon Rockets

For Teachers 9th - 10th
In this activity, students will learn that compressed air creates pressure to propel an air balloon. Students will create a graph in their science journals based on the relationship between the number of air pumps and the distance the...
Lesson Plan
University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged: Image Representation

For Teachers K - 1st
This activity explores how images are displayed, based on the pixel as a building block using data compression. The compression method used in this activity is based on the one used in fax machines, for black and white images.
Online Course
Cosmo Learning

Cosmo Learning: Principles of Digital Communications I

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of video lectures from a course introducing students to the theory and practices in digital communications. Webpage includes twenty-four lectures from a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Lectures vary...
Activity
Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Hover Cup

For Students 9th - 10th
Science experiment in which you make a hovercraft, a machine that uses compressed air to do work, from a paper cup. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of how air flow can minimize friction and cause...
Website
Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (Cpr)

For Students 9th - 10th
Find detailed notes on CPR. Includes information on the function of rescue breathing and chest compressions and steps for performing CPR on adults and on infants.
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Strength of Materials

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about the variety of materials used by engineers in the design and construction of modern bridges. They also find out about the material properties important to bridge construction and consider the advantages and...
Article
Curated OER

Kids Health: Cpr: A Real Lifesaver

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn how artificial respiration can help save a life. This website includes definitions terms "artificial respiration," "rescue breathing," and "chest compressions" and lists the emergency situations that would require someone to use...
Website
Other

Cambridge University: Image Types Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
This helpful tutorial on image types primarily focuses on JPEG and TIFF images and discusses compression as well as image format.
Activity
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Plix: Independence vs. Dependence: Geological Stresses

For Students 7th - 9th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An animation to illustrate the effects that different tectonic stresses have on rocks. Also included on the site is a short quiz over tension and compression.
Website
University of Canterbury

University of Canterbury: Cs Unplugged

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A collection of free learning activities that teach computer science through games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around. The activities introduce students to computational thinking through concepts such...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Leaning Tower of Pasta

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using spaghetti and marshmallows, students experiment with different structures to determine which ones are able to handle the greatest amount of load. Their experiments help them to further understand the effects that compression and...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Testing Fundamental Loads

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students break foam insulation blocks by...
Lesson Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Strong as the Weakest Link

For Teachers 9th - 10th
To introduce the two types of stress that materials undergo - compression and tension - students examine compressive and tensile forces and learn about bridges and skyscrapers. They construct their own building structure using...
Interactive
Concord Consortium

Concord Consortium: Molecular Workbench: States of Matter

For Students 9th - 10th
Change variables in this simulation to see how compression affects different states of matter.
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Forces on the Human Molecule

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will conduct several simple lab activities to learn about the five fundamental load types that can act on structures: tension, compression, shear, bending, and torsion. In this activity, students will play the role of molecules...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Squeeze Is On

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students will learn about the force of compression and how it acts on structural components through a hands-on group project. Using everyday products such as paper, toothpicks, and tape they will construct a structure that will support...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Glue Stick Activity

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this activity students will use hot glue gun sticks to show tension, compression and torsion.
Unit Plan
CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Analysis: Combining Transformations

For Students 11th - 12th
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Function transformations combining shifts, reflections, stretches and compressions.
Article
Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Wave Characteristics Review

For Students 9th - 10th
Review the characteristics of periodic transverse and longitudinal waves such as wavelength, crest, trough, amplitude, expansion, and compression.
Website
Other

Avatar Consultants, Inc: Definitions of Sound

For Students 9th - 10th
Sound is defined and characterized as a wave consisting of oscillations in pressure of a medium. Includes graphics and links to further information.

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