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2: Create Your Own Bug
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 As students are reviewing odd and even numbers, students first sketch out a bug that has odd or even features. Students then use Tinkercad to turn their sketch into a 3D design to be printed.

Subject:
Engineering
Mathematics
STEM
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Glenn Shelton
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/02/2020
2:  Solar Oven Engineering
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Students can work individually or in groups of 3 or 4 to create a solar oven out of a pizza box. Students are trying to figure out the best way to make a solar oven in order to melt the chocolate and marshmallow in the S’more. Students will be given a group of objects and tell them the basis of how to create a solar oven. The oven will need to be placed in direct sunlight for most of the day. This experiment works best on a very hot, sunny day.

Subject:
Mathematics
STEM
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Glenn Shelton
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/02/2020
3 Little Pigs Design Reimagined
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 Students will listen to a close reading of The 3 Little Pigs over the course of 3 days.  (Many versions are accessible via NC Kids Digital Library.  Teacher discretion as to the story version.  Personal copy or online versions can be used.) After each read aloud, students will have the opportunity to engage in The Engineering Design Process to create a new dwelling using materials of varying physical properties.  Students will write to tell about their new dwelling design using sentence frames and an anchor chart for support.  Finally, students will present their new dwellings and read their informational writing to reflect their knowledge of physical properties.  Student informational writing should reflect physical properties such as size, color, shape, texture, weight and flexibility per the NC Kindergarten Science Standards.

Subject:
Applied Science
Reading Literature
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
03/17/2021
3rd Grade - Mr. Ferris and His Wheel
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Read the book Mr. Ferris and his Wheel. Make sure to draw attention to the shapes used in the creation of a ferris wheel. Students will work in small groups to design and create a free standing, spinning wheel.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
English Language Arts
Reading Informational Text
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Candace Oxendine
LaTeisha Hunt
Blakely Glatz
Date Added:
07/26/2022
3rd Grade Water Towers
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Students will discuss what some problems in their local community are, and how their local government solved a particular problem in their community. Then they will work in groups to solve their own community problem - there is no water storage in the town. Students will create a free standing water tower that can store one cup of water without leaks or spillage.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Social Studies
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Candace Oxendine
LeTeisha Hunt
Blakely Glatz
Date Added:
07/26/2022
3rd:  Max's Sleigh Build (Forces in Motion)
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Design and build a sleigh using a WeDo kit, K’nex or similar, that will pull a specific measured weight.

Subject:
Science
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Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
4th Grade:  Spaghetti Tower Challenge
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 Students will construct a tower as high as possible using spaghetti, lasagna noodles and marshmallows. Limited supplies of materials are available. Pieces of spaghetti can be broken into desired lengths.

Subject:
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
4th Grade:  Sphero Natural Disasters/Rescue
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Students will create a fictitious city that has experienced a natural disaster. Once their city is completed, students will create a vehicle to transport supplies to the people who need help.

Subject:
Science
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Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
4th Grade:  The Candy Bomber
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After learning about Gail Halvorsen, the World War II pilot who created tiny parachutes from handkerchiefs and string to deliver chocolates and other candy to the children of Berlin, students will engineer parachutes to deliver their own packages using Parrot Mambo Drones.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
4th Grade:   UV Animal Shelter
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Students use pipe cleaners and uv sensitive beads to create an animal and then design a structure that will protect the animal and keep it from changing colors in the sun.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
4th: Makey Makey your own Circuits
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Students will be given a Makey Makey kit, a Chromebook with the Scratch website and a choice of materials to create a circuit that will allow the students to play an in instrument.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
4th grade - Magnet Motion
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Students will explain how various forces affect the motion of an object.
Students know that a magnet pulls on all things made of iron without touching them, and that this pulling can result in motion. Students know that a magnet attracts some metals, but not all of them. Students know that a magnet has a force field and poles that determine how a metal affected by the magnet will behave within its field.

Students will make a car move using the forces of magnets to turn around, go backwards, and drive along a path without touching it.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Emma Smith
Joy Thompson
Date Added:
07/26/2022
4th grade - Patterns in Math
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This standard asks students to generate a pattern from a given rule and identify features of the given pattern.
Students will be given a rule and will create patterns that consist of repeated sequences of shapes or growing sequences of designs.
Students will then analyze other groups patterns.

Subject:
Applied Science
Engineering
Mathematics
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Joy Thompson
Emma Smith
Date Added:
07/26/2022
5th Grade:  Hot Diggity Dog
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You will investigate various materials to determine their insulation value. From this investigation, you will design and build a doghouse that will keep your dog cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
04/30/2020
5th Grade Science Design Project
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This is an end of the year culminating project . Students will work on their own or in pairs to create a house that will help their family to survive the climate of a randomly chosen location. Students will use their knowledge or ecosystems, heating and cooling, and weather prediction and tracking to determine the proper supplies that will be needed to build a house for survival. The project will include weather research, house build planning, creating a mock-up, and presentation to the class. The project will conclude with a video detailing what they would change after collaboration with the class.

Subject:
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
Carrie Robledo
Elizabeth Alderson
Date Added:
04/16/2021
5th grade lesson Force & Motion
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This lesson combines the science standards for force and motion with an engineering activity. Students will design a car from cardboard straws. Coffee stirs tape, balloon, and bottle lids. ( students can choose which types of wheels). Students will race the cars with classmates to determine which is the fastest.

Subject:
Career Technical Education
Marketing and Entrepreneurship Education
Physics
STEM
Science
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Lesson
Date Added:
08/09/2022
6th Grade Science:  This Little Light (Sphero Lesson)
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Students will demonstrate knowledge of visible light interactions with different materials and through different mediums (air, solids, and water). Students will use Sphero Bolt to create a flashlight. The goal is to create the brightest light from the LED lights on the Sphero BOLT. Students will need to understand how light interacts with different substances to successfully create the brightest flashlight. They will also test their lights in water to see how waves change direction and speed in different mediums.  The Light intensity will be measured using the function in google science journal.

Subject:
Computer Science
Engineering
Information and Technology
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
05/06/2021
9-12 Spanish:  Walking Dead
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Students will discover a cultural tradition of many Spanish speaking countries, compare it to cultural conventions in the United States, and create a tangible, memorable product to commemorate the learning and growth. 

Subject:
Spanish
Material Type:
Activity/Lab
Author:
William Allred
Carrie Robledo
Date Added:
05/19/2021
Activity: Sum It Up: An Introduction to Static Equilibrium
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In this activity, students are introduced to static equilibrium by learning how forces and torques are balanced in a well-designed engineering structure. A tower crane is presented as a simplified two-dimensional case. Using Popsicle sticks and hot glue, student teams design, build and test a simple tower crane model according to these principles, ending with a team competition.

Subject:
Physics
STEM
Science
Material Type:
Lesson Plan
Provider:
TeachEngineering
Author:
Stefan Berkower, Nicholas Hanson, Alison Pienciak
Date Added:
02/26/2019