Practical Action
Practical Action: Plastics Challenge
This is a challenge for students to develop solutions to the problems caused by plastic waste globally. They will learn about how plastic waste impacts people around the world, the different types of plastic, how they are each used, how...
Practical Action
Practical Action: Beat the Flood
Flooding due to climate change can have a devastating effect on people's lives. Set on the fictitious island of Watu, pupils explore how STEM skills can be used to help communities be better prepared for flooding. Students will work as a...
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Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: The Everyday Science of Sports [Pdf]
A lesson plan where students learn about the physics behind golf balls. Students evaluate different designs of golf balls to understand how their design impacts their function. After their evaluation, students will try to improve the...
The Tech Interactive
The Tech Museum of Innovation: Save the Hiker [Pdf]
Can you build a device that will deliver life-saving treatment to someone in a hazardous situation? During this instructional activity, students will learn how energy is converted and transferred between objects. Working in groups and...
Concord Consortium
Concord Consortium: Stem Resources: Building a Zip Line
For this interactive, students plan, create, and test a zip line that will transport a hard-boiled egg without breaking it. They will make improvements on their design based on data about its performance. A motion sensor is required in...
The Tech Interactive
The Tech Interactive: Lesson Plan: Catch It if You Can! [Pdf]
Students will learn about the ongoing issues associated with drought in California and how water conservation can be part of a solution. Students will design a rooftop water catchment system for drought-conscious Ms. Drizzle to install...
The Tech Interactive
The Tech Interactive: Lesson Plan: Save the Fruit! [Pdf]
During this math-focused unit, students will create a device that is used to harvest fruit from a tree. They will then look at failure points in order to iterate their design. Finally, students will describe their device as a system and...
National Science Teachers Association
National Science Teachers Association: Egg Drop and Impulse
This page offers a detailed description of and a link to a set of lessons that will assist teachers in targeting NGSS standard HS-PS2-3. Young scholars investigate momentum and impulse and are challenged to solve an engineering problem...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: 3 M Wind Energy Virtual Lab
Do you think you can design a wind turbine that supplies energy to 400 homes at the highest efficiency and lowest cost? Try your hand at turbine design in this interactive activity that allows you design, build, and test a device to...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Curious George Stem: Build a Wall Lesson Plan
A hands on lessons where students explore how materials and design affect the strength of a structure. After watching an excerpt Curious George, students build newspaper walls like George did and try out different solutions for making...
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Design Solutions Engage, Explore
Third graders illustrate and write out notes for a plan (or several plans) to mitigate the effects of a local weather hazard.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Innovations in Football Equipment
Due to recent advances in technology and engineering, new innovations in equipment are helping to support the game of football in every respect.
Exploratorium
Exploratorium: Science Snacks: Designer Ears
Why do animals' ears all look different? In this activity, you will research all shapes and function of ears to create "better" ears.
Better Lesson
Better Lesson: Building Things in Different Ways
This lesson poses the question "can you always take something apart and put it together in different ways?". Students will take part in designing an investigation using snap cubes to help figure out an answer. Videos of the lesson in...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Make a Treehouse
Design the treehouse of your dreams with ABCya's Make a Treehouse! Choose from tree types, wood varieties and more. Would you like to build a house in a rainbow eucalyptus tree? No problem! How about a roller coaster entrance, and a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Testing With Models
In this video segment from Cyberchase, learn about the importance of creating a model as the CyberSquad designs a giant "Trojan Ducky" that will help them enter a fort without being noticed. [4:17]
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Solar System!
An introduction to our solar system: the planets, our Sun and our Moon. Students begin by learning the history and engineering of space travel. They make simple rockets to acquire a basic understanding Newton's third law of motion. They...
South Carolina Educational Television
Etv: The Hobby Shop: Balloon Blast
Design a catapult, blast a balloon into the air, and try to hit the target the first time. If you miss, adjust the velocity and angle to reach the desired trajectory.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: All Caught Up
Commercial fishing nets often trap unprofitable animals in the process of catching their target species. In the following activity, students will experience the difficulty that fishermen experience while trying to isolate a target...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Egg Drop
Students are challenged to use the technical problem solving to dump radioactive material (eggs) into water without touching them. Lesson plan includes timeline, student handout and discussion questions.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Clay Boats
Each student uses a small quantity of modeling clay to make a boat that will float in a tub of water. The object is to build a boat that will hold as much weight as possible without sinking. In the process of designing and testing their...
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Nano Waterproofing
Lesson investigates the modification of a material at the nanoscale to enhance it with properties such as water and stain resistance.
NASA
NASA Kids Club: Rocket Builder
Students can hone their shape-recognition skills and use the plans to build a fleet of rockets.
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Getting Your Bearings
Students learn about teamwork and problem solving in this lesson that focuses on friction and how ball bearings are used to reduce it.