In this STEM lesson, students will participate in an engineering design challenge to design and build a solar box cooker, and test it out to see if it works well enough to make S'mores.
This lesson is composed of three challenges, each addressing a different aspect of how to design an efficient public bus system for a fictitious town while taking into account the benefits and drawbacks of various fuel options. In attempting these challenges, students will find that there is often more than one way to solve a problem. The purpose of these challenges is for students to reason out their own logical methods for solving a problem using math and computational skills with little initial guidance.
In this activity, students will understand basic principles of earthquake engineering and design by working together as a team to design and build a structure.
This resource is aligned to a Kindergarten math standard, as NC does not have a SCOS for K-5 STEM.
The bunny has forgotten to deliver an egg. Design a structure for the bunny to safely deliver the missing egg without the bunny being seen (drop from above) and without the egg breaking.
Students will be given a variety of materials. They are tasked with building a structure (ie: parachute, cage, etc.) to safely drop their egg to the floor without it breaking.
Students will be able to:Collect, report, and analyze data with regards to sports related injuries in high school athletes.
This is a remix of Caine's Arcade PBL, orginially authored by Val Capel, Katie Johnson, and Michele Randle. The original work was aligned to Michigan State Standards and housed in Google Drive, which made it difficult to remix on this platform.This version has been aligned to North Carolina State Standards and was created on this platform for easy remixing by others.
Using Makey Makey to build a circuit and learning about electricity as a form of energy to cause change.
This session will focus on classroom tested hands on activities. The novice computer science/technology teacher can implement tomorrow.
In this lesson, students use modeling clay to make boats that float in a tub of water. The object is to build boats that hold as much weight as possible without sinking. In the process of designing and testing their prototype creations, students discover some of the basic principles of boat design, gain first-hand experience with concepts such as buoyancy and density, and experience the steps of the engineering design process.
In this STEM lesson, students use the engineering design process to build and test a model coring drill capable of penetrating several sediment layers respresented by different colors of clay/dough. Then they will use their drill to explore the sediment beds at 4-6 "sites."
Students will use the engineering design process to design their own cloud catchers based on the "harp collector" created by biologist Greg Goldsmith to study the low-lying clouds in the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica.
Children love LEGOs! And knowing how to code is becoming more and more essential for the next generation of innovators, do-ers and leaders. Put LEGOs and coding together and you have the FIRST LEGO League Explore program, an innovative and engaging project that makes classroom learning popular and fun. We will demonstrate how to build and code with the LEGO WeDo 2.0 kit. In addition, we will learn more about how this kit is used in the FLL Explore program while walking-through the curriculum and the engineering notebook used by students in grades K-4. We will also share best practices for safe use of shared materials.
In this STEM activity, students are enabled to demonstrate, test, and analyze materials utilized in spacesuits to keep astronauts cool in the harsh environment of space. They will demonstrate the water cooling technology used in the International Space Station (ISS) Extravehicular Mobility Unit (EMU). Students will also test and make an analysis of the relationship between reflection/absorption and color.
This is a story about a potato…not any type of potato though. A potato who sits in the exact same spot on the couch every day using all of his devices (tv, phone, video games, etc). It’s a perfect life until the power goes out one day, and he has to find other things to do. He learns that he needs to have a balance between screen time and activities in the real world. Your job as an engineer is to design a gadget that will remind the potato when he needs to ditch the screens and get up and move. (You must incorporate your iPad.)
Come and explore fun ways to teach students about flood walls and creating farms of the future. Students will expand their knowledge of the engineering design process and be introduced to scale modeling. We will also discuss how to bring farming into the classroom through guest speakers, professional development opportunities, and developing your own hydroponic garden.
Links to session resources:
https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/k5engineers2020/9e/3rd-5th%20Grade_Next%20Generation%20of%20Living%20on%20the%20Farm%20-%20Heather%20Russell.pdf
https://static.sched.com/hosted_files/k5engineers2020/88/K-2_Protecting%20our%20Farms_%20Crop%20Conservation%20Barrier%20-%20Heather%20Russell.pdf
Students will design a working trebuchet for maximum accuracy, distance and force using the engineering design process. Students will utilize the measurement formulas to calculate kinetic and potential energy and therefore create a trebuchet for a specific function (ex: hitting a target, knocking down a wall or launching for distance).
In this STEM activity, students are provided with a variety of materials to build a hot air balloon. Teams of students will use their knowledge of density and heat transfer to design, construct, and test their balloon. The activity concludes with flight testing the balloons and then a review of the design features of all balloons for the most advantageous design features.
Students imagine they are scientists or engineers designing a new space probe to explore our solar system. They choose a planet, review its weather factors, and use a rubric to gather information, make a plan, modify and/or test their plan, and create their design.
In this STEM lesson, students use the NASA Future Flight Design Challenge activity and website to help them learn how NASA engineers develop and test experimental aircraft to solve a specific problem by using the engineering design process. Students will solve an engineering design challenge based on specific criterion and build and design four paper aircraft based on actual NASA experimental aircraft. They will conduct and test their models and gather data of the results based on the design process and a specific challenge. Lastly, students will evaluate the performance of each aircraft based on engineering requirements.