Ei E: Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Lesson 1

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...

A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Omar, a boy from Egypt, learns about optical engineering as he helps design his own lighting system. [10:50]

Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [11:47]

Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [10:28]

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 experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [11:51]

Students experiment with reflecting light using mirrors and learn about light intensity. [9:04]

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]

A charming narrator introduces viewers to the wonders and history of our own solar system. A full explanation describing the birth of our sun, planets, and entire solar system. This is the first part of a two-part series on our solar...