Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Students will be creating an obstacle course and utilizing edison robots and edScratch to program robots to go through the course. Materials: Edison Robots and anything needed to create the obstacle
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Summary: apply our understanding of the engineering design process to build a tower made of index cards that can hold an object. Materials: List of Materials 1 object, typically no bigger than a
Grades:
5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade
Students will focus on the Engineering Design process, which includes researching, as well as making improvements to a design, with appropriate testing. Basic materials, pencil, paper, scissors, tape
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade
Students will create Rube Goldberg machines from simple machines. The teacher can determine materials such as wooden planks, paper towel rolls, bottle caps, marbles, cardboard, hot glue etc.
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
Summary: In groups students will construct a roller coaster made completely out of paper that a marble can travel on, the goal is to have the "ride" last for a longer time than other and be able to
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This lesson is designed for 6-8, but can be used at lower levels as well (3rd & 4th). Students will learn what an experimental (or x) plane is and then create one on paper. The link to NASA's video
Grades:
8th Grade
Students will use stomp rockets to collect data. With this data they will create and analyze trends of a scatterplot.
Grades:
7th Grade, 8th Grade
Summary: In groups students will construct a Rube Goldberg device made completely out of found objects that includes at least 5 simple machines and students will identify the energy transformations
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Summary: Use the engineering design process (EDP) to create a prototype of a device that can prevent squirrels from accessing a bird feeder. Materials: List of Materials EDP process handout Book and
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade
In this activity, students will perform a hands-on, inquiry-based investigation of the tradeoffs involved in hard rock mining. The object is to purchase and develop a mine, safeguarding the
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This lesson plan assesses motions and forces concepts through roller coasters. Plan, design and construct a successful roller coaster track that is capable of rolling a marble through its entire
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
Explore how size, strength, weight and time constraints can impact space transportation.
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
This lesson will explore aerodynamics, rocketry, and principles of space flights. Students will act as engineers. Their job is to research, plan, design, and build a water bottle rocket that will
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
This lesson incorporates a TikTok challenge of using everyday supplies for retrieving items from a storm drain.
Grades:
3rd Grade, 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade
One Plastic Bag is about a child in Gambia, West Africa who sees plastic bags piling up on the side of the road. Students will listen to the book being read (in person or online) then create their own
Grades:
8th Grade, 9th Grade
Connect real world situations to the graphs of parabolas through flight. Groups will create PVC stomp rockets, collect data of their rocket's flight path and graph this path on paper to compare to
Grades:
6th Grade, 7th Grade, 8th Grade, 9th Grade, 10th Grade, 11th Grade, 12th Grade
The objective for this assignment is to use creativity, imagination, and engineering skills to create a water conservation model that can be scaled up and used in a garden. Our theme with this unit is