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

With articles entitled, "What's Puke?" and "What is a Fart?" this digestive system lesson is sure to be a gas! Elementary anatomists do a belly dance to illustrate how food moves through the digestive system and then design a board game...

This model lesson shows students thinking like transportation engineers as they improve the safety and efficiency of a model intersection. [11:54]

Watch as students use their knowledge of the properties of magnets and the Engineering Design Process to design a maglev transportation system. [13:50]

Watch as a teacher introduces an engineering challenge with the story, Hikaru, where a boy from Japan, learns about transportation engineering as he attempts to design a small Maglev transportation system for his parents' toy store. [14:21]

Watch as a teacher engages her fifth-grade students in several experiments to learn more about the properties of magnets. [7:03]

Students think like agricultural engineers as they perform a play about Integrated Pest Management at an apple orchard. [12:15]

Students think like optical engineers as they explore how light interacts with a variety of materials. [8:19]

Students think like optical engineers as they explore how light interacts with a variety of materials. [12:50]

Students determine the needs of the plant and the consumer for which they are designing their plant packages. [13:38]

Evaluating Needs and Creating Criteria: Students determine the needs of the plant and the consumer for which they are designing their plant packages. [9:57]