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The Digital Scoop: Using Skitch in Kindergarten
In this article, a teacher explains how she taught kindergarten students to take photographs. They were then shown how to open an iPad app called Skitch and add words to accompany their pictures. This was followed by a Math activity...
Oswego City School District
Regents Exam Prep Center: Systems of Linear Inequalities
Solving a system of linear inequalities is shown to be as easy as solving a system of linear equations! An example is explained before students are given several problems to complete on their own. Complete explanations of these are...
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Organism Power Points/ Booklets
This lesson requires students to use technology to research information on any organism from one of the six kingdoms. Students use the information to produce a PowerPoint presentation or booklet to present to their classmates. This...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Self Propelling Boat
Use this site to plan, document, and build a self-propelling boat that can travel a set distance. Students will use common materials to build this boat.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Buoyant Catamaran
Could you use plastic bottles, popsicle sticks, and tape to Engineer a catamaran that can hold 15 ounces of cargo without sinking? Use this site for lesson plans, tips, and a place to document your process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Speedboat
This challenge has students using a zip line to guide a boat to move through the water for long distances. To help the students build a fast and steady boat this site contains a lesson plan as well as tips. Students can also document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Wind Up Mars Rover
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a Mars rover that can travel using elastic energy. Site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Space Tool
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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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Balance a Dinosaur
Using common household items, students are challenged to build a dinosaur at least 6" tall that can balance on two legs using counterbalances. This website contains the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Signal Horn
Build a signal horn to make low-frequency sounds that can be heard from far away in this STEM lesson. Use this interactive site to document your design process. Included on the site is a video explaining a possible solution to the problem.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenge: Build a Blooming Flower
Can you create a blooming flower that would attract pollinators? This Curiosity Machine project challenges students to make this flower using common household items. Site includes a place for students to document their process as well as...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Dinosaur Shadow Box
Create a series of shadow boxes to form a complete silhouette of a dinosaur with this challenge. To complete this challenge, students will use everyday materials and this site to document their process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Pneumatic Creature
Create a creature that uses air to create motion with this challenge. Site includes tips, lesson plans, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Pine Cone
Using cardboard, popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and strings create a pine cone that opens and closes. This site contains lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Control a Microraptor's Flight
Using common household materials students are challenged to make a flying raptor and control its flight with attached strings. Site includes lesson plans, tips, and a place for students to document their process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Mechanical Leg
This website challenges students to make a ball and socket joint that mimics the movement of a human hip or shoulder. Using only a tennis ball, rubber bands, cardboard, and tape, students will construct this mechanical device. The site...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Strong Honeycomb Structure
Using paper and tape, students are challenged to build a honeycomb structure that is able to support a heavy textbook or more. The website includes a place for students to document their design process, tips, and a lesson plan.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Redwood Tree
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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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Hydroelectric Waterwheel
Can you generate electricity from the flow of water by designing a waterwheel? In this challenge, students will be using everyday objects to create their waterwheel. This site contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Robotic Face
Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Robotic Arm
A challenge that asks students to move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup using a robotic arm they designed. The site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Neural Network
This site has students creating a network that classifies information using cups, index cards, and strings. Site also contains a place for students to document their engineering design process, a lesson plan, and tips.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Light Dispersal System
Use this website challenges to create a way to spread light inside a house to illuminate a picture. The website also includes tips, a lesson plan, a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make Drawings of Three Dimensional Objects
Using the Glass Box Theory, students will make scaled technical drawings of 3D objects. This site includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.