Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Adding Up, Taking Away Activity Plan

For Teachers 1st - 3rd
In this week's Afterschool Adventure, children will practice and explore strategies for solving addition and subtraction problems, such as using counters and rulers, performing mental math, and drawing pictures. As children encounter...
Activity
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Designing a Robotic Surgical Device

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Student teams create laparoscopic surgical robots designed to reduce the invasiveness of diagnosing endometriosis and investigate how the disease forms and spreads. Using a synthetic abdominal cavity simulator, students test and iterate...
Lesson Plan
The Tech Interactive

The Tech Interactive: Lesson Plan: Save the Fruit! [Pdf]

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
During this math-focused unit, young scholars 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...
Unit Plan
TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Next Generation Surgical Tools in the Body

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Through this unit, students act as engineers who are given the challenge to design laparoscopic surgical tools. After learning about human anatomy and physiology of the abdominopelvic cavity, especially as it applies to laparoscopic...