This lesson allows students to create their own rockets using foam trays and drinking straws that are powered by a balloon. Students will race their rockets on a track and determine why some rockets moved faster than others.

Students explore the many different ways that engineers provide natural lighting to interior spaces. They analyze various methods of daylighting by constructing model houses from foam core board and simulating the sun with a desk lamp....

Students create large-scale models of microfluidic devices using a process similar to that of the PDMS and plasma bonding that is used in the creation of lab-on-a-chip devices. They use disposable foam plates, plastic bendable straws and...

Students will make paper rockets, parachutes, and foam gliders to experience how objects move through the air. Explore topics such as thrust, weight, gravity, force, and lift through fun activities and stories and cutting-edge work done...

Several well-written pages using easy-to-understand language. Explains about every detail concerning insulation and its installation or replacement. Discusses R values, heat loss, insulation types, etc.

Students use the engineering design process to solve a real-world problem - shoe engineering! Working in small teams, students design, build and test a pair of wearable platform or high-heeled shoes, taking into consideration the stress...

This is a great site that has articles about Restoration Environmental Services current jobs. It has many different clean up departments, from Mold and Fungus Removal to Urea Formaldehyde Foam insulation cleanup. This is a great site for...

Article from February, 2003, reports on a possible object that might have separated from Space Shuttle Columbia that might have caused the disaster. Since this article, it has been found that a piece of foam did fall off of Columbia.

Students continue their pyramid building journey, acting as engineers to determine the appropriate wedge tool to best extract rock from a quarry and cut into pyramid blocks. Using sample materials (wax, soap, clay, foam) representing...

In this activity, students will design and create their own heart valves out of a variety of materials given to them, including: waterproof tape, plastic tubing, flexible plastic sheets, foam sheets, scissors, clay, etc. This activity...

This unit has students design and build foam tubing roller coasters. The design process integrates energy concepts as they test and evaluate their designs that address the task as an engineer would. The goal is for students to understand...

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...

Students learn how simple machines, including wedges, were used in building both ancient pyramids and present-day skyscrapers. In a hands-on activity, students test a variety of wedges on different materials (wax, soap, clay, foam)....

A list of space technologies that have been integrated into common items from invisible braces to memory foam. NASA produces a list like this every year to illustrate the benefits to the program's existence. Click on each item listed to...

Use the scroll bar on this site to zoom in and out of this site which will show you the relative sizes of hundreds of things in our univers, from the smallest currently known - quantum foam - to the largest - our universe. Click on any...

In this activity, students use pipe cleaners and foam balls to build a model of a hydrocarbon molecule. They then modify it to demonstrate the chemical reaction that happens when the hydrocarbon is burned.

Science experiment shows how yeast mixed with hydrogen peroxide creates not only foam but an Exothermic Reaction.

Learners will measure the effects of the height of an inclined plane on the force a marble produces to move a plastic, foam, or paper cup across a table. Students will discover that the higher the incline plane, the more force produced...

Learn about Lars Carlsson's job. He is a Swedish makeup artist and wigmaker whose commercial site showcases his work in the world of theater and the like. Click to see some of his how-tos and videos.

"Wet-into-wet" painting is an interesting painting technique described in this website. Included are example images and "Tips and Tricks" for creating your masterpiece.

This resource presents a collection of simple science experiments kids can do using household materials. The procedures include diagrams and are simple to follow.

Percy Lavon Julian is featured in this brief biography for his innovative contributions to medicine.

Young scholars practice and improve their jumping and landing skills through using different types of jumping patterns. This fun gym-class activity, which is a variation of "tag," reqires music, hula hoops for each student, and vests and...

Students practice their throwing skills as they toss "Trash," (foam balls, yarn balls) into "Oscar's Garbage Can." This lesson includes suggestions for varying the activity and making sure it is safe.