Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 3 Part 2

K - 1st
Students perform controlled experiments to identify effective materials and methods for picking up and dropping off pollen. [10:41]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 3 Part 1

K - 1st
Students perform controlled experiments to identify effective materials and methods for picking up and dropping off pollen. [12:49]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 2

1st - 5th
Students think like agricultural engineers as they perform a play about Integrated Pest Management at an apple orchard. [12:15]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Designing a Hand Pollinator

K - 1st
Students apply their knowledge of materials, the pollination system, and agricultural engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own hand pollinators.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 3

K - 1st
Students perform controlled experiments to identify effective materials and methods for picking up and dropping off pollen. [9:12]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 2

K - 1st
Students think like agricultural engineers as they perform a play about Integrated Pest Management at an apple orchard. [8:47]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Best of Bugs: Designing Hand Pollinators Lesson 1

K - 1st
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Mariana, a girl from the Dominican Republic, learns about agricultural engineering as she designs a hand pollinator to use in her garden. [7:49]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: What Is Technology?

3rd - 5th
Students think about what technology is and are introduced to the idea that engineers design technologies. [13:21]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: What Is Technology?

1st - 3rd
Students think about what technology is and are introduced to the idea that engineers design technologies. [14:35]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Designing a Bridge (2)

K - 1st
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Designing a Bridge (1)

K - 1st
Students apply their knowledge of balance, forces, and civil engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own bridges.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Bridging Understanding (2)

K - 1st
Students perform a controlled test of three types of bridges to see how much weight the bridges can support.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Bridging Understanding (1)

K - 1st
Students perform a controlled test of three types of bridges to see how much weight the bridges can support.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 4 Part 1

3rd - 6th
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [13:19]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Tar Pul Storybook

3rd - 5th
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Suman, a boy from Nepal, learns about geotechnical engineering as he helps evaluate a site for a TarPul. [13:57]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Catching the Wind: Designing Windmills Lesson 3 Part 2

K - 1st
Students predict, test, observe, and describe how sails made of different materials and shapes catch the wind. [15:00]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: A Work in Process: Improving a Play Dough Process Lesson 1

3rd - 6th
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Michelle, a girl from Canada, learns about chemical engineering as she attempts to design a play dough making process to share with her hockey teammates. [7:02]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: The Attraction Is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems Lesson 2

3rd - 5th
Students think like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [10:01]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 3 Part 2

3rd - 6th
Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [10:28]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Evaluating a Landscape (2)

K - 1st
Students focus on the geotechnical engineering problem of evaluating a landscape as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve a site for a wire cable bridge called a TarPul. [15:26]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: A Stick in the Mud: Evaluating a Landscape Lesson 3 Part 1

3rd - 6th
Students use maps to study the erosion along a riverbank over time and conduct controlled experiments to determine how soil compaction around a foundation affects the foundation's strength. [8:35]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Spotlight Videos

Pre-K - 1st
These six Spotlight Videos from Engineering is Elementary demonstrate to teachers effective classroom practices and strategies for introducing engineering concepts to students.
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: Water, Water Everywhere: Designing Water Filters Lesson 4

1st - 6th
Students focus on the environmental engineering problem of providing clean water as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own water filters. [11:30]
Instructional Video
Museum of Science

Ei E: To Get to the Other Side: Designing Bridges Lesson 1

1st - 5th
This teacher introduces an engineering challenge with a story. The main character, Javier, a boy from Texas, learns about civil engineering as he designs his own bridge. [8:57]