How can you use the engineering design process to build a structure that can stand up to an earthquake?

Student teams practice water quality analysis through turbidity measurement and coliform bacteria counts. They use information about water treatment processes to design prototype small-scale water treatment systems and test the influent...

SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge, there are...

SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. In this challenge students will...

SPRK STEM challenges are fun, interactive activities that challenge students to use creativity and team-work to move through simple steps of the design process in order to build Sphero-based creations. The Hydro-hypothesis challenge...

Evolution through natural selection governs the "design" of flying creatures. Engineers design flying machines. But flying is about physics, and physics is the ultimate arbiter of both processes, and that produces parallels in mechanical...

Egg drop competition is a popular activity to reinforce the lessons in force and motion. In the activity, the students are asked to design a vehicle to carry the egg safely when dropped from a height of 10 feet (about 3 m) or more....

In this interactive instructional activity, students will explore the social factors, economic factors and engineering innovations that drive higher and faster commercial flights.

The lessons included on this site are for the Home Lighting in Developing Countries Project. For each instructional activity, there is a link to the instructional activity itself and another link to the lesson plan for that particular...

A slideshow carbo-loaded with information on how the pneumatic potato cannon works. [3:00]

Can you build rollers that are not circle shaped? In this activity, build non-circular rollers that a flat panel can roll smoothly on.

This activity will have students creating their own speaker with a paper cup, coil of wire, and magnet. The speaker operates by changing electric current into sound.

In this activity students will be creating a giant sieve! The sieve should allow some objects through but create a boundary to keep others out.

Explore innovations, complete a virtual lab or travel through time with this website. Content on this page allows users to understand how products are developed.

In this lesson plan students experiment with cleaning up an oil spill. This lesson begins with students learning about the effects of oil spills on the natural environment. Then students will explore the most effective way to clean up an...

In this lesson plan students experiment with making their own formula of glue after the art teacher runs out of store bought glue for her classes. While making their glue, the students learn about adhesives.