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Lesson: Concrete for Kids
Concrete for Kids is a fun, hands-on activity to introduce students to engineering and concrete as an engineered material that engineers use to make the structures we use every day, including bridges,...
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Beat the Motion Sensor
In this activity, students in grades 7 to 9 explore material properties as they relate to motion detection, and use that knowledge to make design decisions about what types of motion detectors to use...
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Berry Organic Solar Energy
High school students working in teams of four learn how a device made with dye from berries can be used to convert light energy into electrical energy by building their own organic solar cells and...
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Naked Egg Drop
Paris of students in grades 3 to 6 experience the engineering design process by building and modifying devices to catch and protect a "naked" egg as it is dropped from increasing heights. The activity...
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Shapes of Strength
Students in grades 3 to 5 use engineering problem solving to create structures from paper, straws, tape, and paper clips that can support the weight of at least one textbook. For the second trial, they...
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Three Little Pigs Design Challenge
Elementary students act as civil engineers to design and build a house that the big, bad wolf cannot blow down. If time allows, they can redesign and test their structures.
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Plastic Hits the Road
The road to a greener future may start in northwest England's Cumbria county, where plastic litter is turning up in an unusual new place: street pavements.
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Olympic Medals Turn e-Waste to Gold
When it comes to champions, engineering swept the field at the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympic Games. That's because all 5,000 gold, silver, and bronze medals were made from recycled cellphones and other...
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Sandcastle Investigations
In this NGSS-aligned activity, 2nd graders draw on their knowledge of Earth science to follow the engineering design process and investigate solutions for protecting sandcastles from wind and water...
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