Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Riding the Gravity Wave

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students write a biographical sketch of an artist or athlete who lives on the edge, riding the gravity wave, to better understand how these artists and athletes work with gravity and manage risk. Note: The literacy activities for the...
Lesson Plan
Children's Museum

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Beyond Spaceship Earth

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This unit of study explores the International Space Station through STEM experiences in space science education. Students become a spacecraft crew and launch from Earth to discover how microgravity affects the orbit of the International...
Lesson Plan
Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Can You Curl Your Tongue?

For Teachers 6th - 8th
This lesson is adapted from a Connected Mathematics Unit, How Likely is It? This investigation introduces biology as a source of applications for probability. In this lesson, Curling your Tongue, students determine how many students in...