TeachEngineering Collection Table of Contents
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Color Key:
Subject Area,
Curricular Unit,
Lesson,
Activity
What a Drag
Puttin' It All Together
Electrons on the Move
Two-Cell Battery
Many Paths
Swinging on a String
Swing in Time
Not So Lost in Space
Satellite Tracker
Air Pressure
Bulbs & Batteries in a Row
Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
Catapults!
Close Enough?
Completing the Circuit
Don't Crack Humpty
Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
Forces and Graphing
Heavy Helicopters
I Can't Take the Pressure!
Physics Tug of War
Solar Water Heater
Will It Conduct?
Windy Tunnel
You're a Pushover!
Biology
Go with the Energy Flow
Planting Thoughts
Animals and Engineering
Cleaning Up with Decomposers
Cells
Cellular Respiration and Bioremediation
The Cloning of Cells
Sudsy Cells
Engineering and the Human Body
Move Your Muscles!
Our Amazing Skeleton
Digestive System
The Heart of the Matter
Nerve Racking
Unlocking the Endocrine System
Just Passing Through
Out of Breath
Fighting Back!
Life Science
Extinction Prevention via Engineering
Copycat Engineers
Clean It Up!
Dirty Decomposers
The Strongest Pump of All
What Will Biodegrade?
Fortified Breakfast
Engineering Bones
Sticks and Stones Will Break That Bone!
Mice Rule! (Or Not)
Test and Treat Before You Drink
Can You Taste It?
Viral Hijackers
Do Plants Eat?
Muscles, Oh My!
Measuring Our Muscles
Body Circulation
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Dam Impacts
Digestion Simulation
Swim to and from the Sea!
Where Has All the Water Gone?
Bone Fractures and Engineering
Living with Your Liver
Your River's Health
Chemistry
Mix It Up
Engineering and the Periodic Table
Gumdrop Atoms
Messin' with Mixtures
Food Packaging
What's Air Got to Do with It?
Environmental History Timeline
A Recipe for Air
What Color is Your Air Today?
Test and Treat Before You Drink
Heat Transfer: From Hot to Not
Hot Potato, Cool Foil
I Don't Believe My Eyes!
What's Hiding in the Air?
Chemical Wonders
Digestion Simulation
Not So Neutral Views
Acid Rain Effects
Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
Where Has All the Water Gone?
The No Zone of Ozone
Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
I've Gotta Get Some Air
Smoke and Mirrors
Acid (and Base) Rainbows
Acid Rain Effects
Battling for Oxygen
A Recipe for Air
Serial Dilution of a Fluorescent Compound
Serial Dilution of Food Coloring Dye
Data Analysis and Probability
All Caught Up
Can You Hear it?
Let Your Ears do the Walking
Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
Population Growth in Yeasts
How To Make Yeast Cells Thrive
Yeast Cells Respire, Too (But Not Like Me and You)
Energy Systems and Solutions
Problem Solving
Energy Basics
Energy Forms, States and Conversions
Energy Resources and Systems
Energy Efficiency
Household Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Energy Projects
Efficiency of a water heating system
Efficiency of an electromechanical system
Egg Drop
Energy Choices Game
Energy Conversions
Energy forms and states demonstrations
Energy in our Lives Carousel
Energy Intelligence Agency
Energy Perspectives
Energy Sources Research
Energy Systems Activity
Household energy audit
Human Power
Light vs. Heat Bulbs
Renew-a-bead
Solving Energy Problems
Watt meters to measure energy consumption
What's Dominant?
Capturing the Sun's Warmth
A Case of Innovation
Design Weather Instruments using LEGO Sensors
Falling Water
Probability, Permutations and Combinations
Solid Rock to Building Block
Waterwheel Work
You're in Hot Water
Earth and Space
I Don't Believe My Eyes!
Weather Watchers
On the Move
Not So Neutral Views
Let's Heat Things Up!
The No Zone of Ozone
I've Gotta Get Some Air
Pollution Solutions
Asteroid Impact
How Big?
Scaling the Map
Possible Locations
Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
Ranking the Rocks
Drum Roll Please
Testing the Caverns (Optional)
Drum Roll Please
How Big?
Possible Locations
Ranking the Rocks
Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
Scaling the Map
Testing the Caverns - Optional
What's the Problem?
Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
Hot Cans and Cold Cans
Dams
Water and Dams in Today's World
Locks and Dams
Clean Energy: Hydropower
Dam Impacts
Swim to and from the Sea!
Where Has All the Water Gone?
Are Dams Forever?
Engineering for the Earth
Fresh or Salty?
What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic Regions
Harnessing Wind
The Earth is a Changin'
Sea to Sky
Harvesting Oil from the Earth
Powering the U.S.
Environmental Engineering
How Clean is that Water?
An Underground River
Who's Down the Well?
Landfills: Building Them Better
You Are What You Drink!
The Air We Breathe
Lost in the Amazon
Supplies
The Need for Shelter
The Growling Stomach
Where's the Water?
Attack of the Raging River
The Evening News
Anchors Away
Assessing the Situation
Built to Last?
Eye Witness Reporting
Finding Food in the Amazon
Home, Sweet Home!
Is it Safe to Drink?
Taking the Boat to Manaus
What to Bring?
Marine Mapping
Marine animal tracking
Map that Habitat
Map-A-Buddy
Mission to Mars
Red Rover Robotics
Come On Over Rover
Get Me Off This Planet
Six Minutes of Terror
Manned Mission to Mars
Natural Disasters
Earthquake Formation
Earthquakes Rock!
Volcanic Panic!
Land on the Run
Tsunami Attack!
Water, Water Everywhere
Tornado!
Plot Your Course - Navigation
How to be a Great Navigator!
Navigating by the Numbers
Getting it Right!
Topo Map Mania!
Getting to the Point
By Land, Sea or Air
Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
GPS on the Move
Not So Lost in Space
Rock Cycle
Making & Breaking: The Rock Cycle
Fantastic Fossils
How Mountains are Formed
Soil Investigations
Rockets
Newton Gets Me Moving
Rocket Me into Space
Blast Off
Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
Solar System!
Blazing Gas
Mercury and Venus
Our Big Blue Marble
Moon Walk
Mars and Jupiter
The Outer Planets
Life in Space: The International Space Station
Beyond the Milky Way
Space
Life on the Moon
Asteroids
Spectroscopy
Designing a Spectroscopy Mission
Engineering Your Own Spectrograph
Graphing the Rainbow
Patterns and Fingerprints
A Spectral Mystery
Using a Fancy Spectrograph
Using Spectral Data to Explore Saturn and Titan
Weather and Atmosphere
Air Under Pressure
Stormy Skies
Weather Forecasting
Hurricanes
Global Climate Change
Lunar Learning
Our Amazing, Powerful Sun
Raging Rivers
Permeable Pavement
Rock Solid
Soapy Stress
Fantastic Fossils
Off the Grid
Power Your House with Wind
A River Ran Through It
Falling Water
Waterwheel Work
Let the Sun Shine!
Cooking with the Sun
Power to the People
You're in Hot Water
Build an Earthquake City
Construct And Test Roofs for Different Climates
Design a Recycling Game!
Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
A House is a House for Me
Portable Sundial
Which Roof is Tops?
Geometry
Balsa Towers
Newspaper Tower
A Place in Space
Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
Let's Move It!
Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
Powerful Pulleys
Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
Plot Your Course - Navigation
How to be a Great Navigator!
Navigating by the Numbers
Getting it Right!
Topo Map Mania!
Getting to the Point
By Land, Sea or Air
Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
GPS on the Move
Not So Lost in Space
Boxed In and Wrapped Up
New Boxes From Old
Olympic Engineering
Swim to and from the Sea!
Build Your Own Mobile
Tower O' Power
Life Science
All Caught Up
Can You Hear it?
Let Your Ears do the Walking
Biodomes
A Mini World
Go with the Energy Flow
Planting Thoughts
Animals and Engineering
Cleaning Up with Decomposers
Biomedical Engineering and the Human Body
Muscles, Oh My!
Body Circulation
Breathe In, Breathe Out
Digestion Simulation
My Mechanical Ear Can Hear!
Biomedical Devices for the Eyes
We've Come a Long Way, Baby!
DNA: The Human Body Recipe
Bone Fractures and Engineering
Living with Your Liver
Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
Population Growth in Yeasts
How To Make Yeast Cells Thrive
Yeast Cells Respire, Too (But Not Like Me and You)
Life Science
Extinction Prevention via Engineering
Copycat Engineers
Clean It Up!
Flow Rates of Faucets and Rivers
River Flow Rate
What Will Biodegrade?
Mice Rule! (Or Not)
What's Dominant?
How Tall Are We?
Can You Taste It?
Viral Hijackers
Do Plants Eat?
Test and Treat Before You Drink
Life Cycles
Who Needs What?
Dam Impacts
Swim to and from the Sea!
Where Has All the Water Gone?
An Arm and A Leg
Build Your Own Insect Trap
Charlotte's Web
Engineers Speak for the Trees
Living with Your Liver
Witnessing Evaporation
Your River's Health
Measurement
Buoyant Boats
Clay Boats
Determining Densities
Marine Mapping
Marine animal tracking
Map that Habitat
Map-A-Buddy
Plot Your Course - Navigation
How to be a Great Navigator!
Navigating by the Numbers
Getting it Right!
Topo Map Mania!
Getting to the Point
By Land, Sea or Air
Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
GPS on the Move
Not So Lost in Space
The Force of Friction
Factors Affecting Friction
Does Contact Area Matter?
Does Weight Matter?
Sliding and Stuttering
An Introduction to Inclined Planes
Measure Twice, Cut Once
Who Needs What?
How Tall Are We?
Transportation and the Environment
Locks and Dams
Dam Impacts
Swim to and from the Sea!
The Artificial Bicep
Ball Bounce Experiment
Capturing the Sun's Warmth
A Case of Innovation
Don't Confuse Your Qs!
Falling Water
Forces and Graphing
How Much Heat Will It Hold?
How Much Water Do You Use?
Make Your Own Temperature Scale
Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame
Scale Model of the Earth
Swinging with Style
Tower O' Power
The Universal Language of Engineering Drawings
Waterwheel Work
Wheeling It In!
Wind Power!
Witnessing Evaporation
You're in Hot Water
Your River's Health
Zero-Energy Housing
Number and Operations
How Tall Are We?
Building a Binary Mechanical Hard Drive
Choosing a Pyramid Site
Dam Pass or Fail
Don't Confuse Your Qs!
Drifting Continents
How Good Is Your Hearing?
Mobile Forces
Serial Dilution of a Fluorescent Compound
Serial Dilution of Food Coloring Dye
Stack It Up!
Water Filtration
Witnessing Evaporation
Your River's Health
Physical Science
I Don't Believe My Eyes!
Weather Watchers
On the Move
Not So Neutral Views
Let's Heat Things Up!
The No Zone of Ozone
I've Gotta Get Some Air
Pollution Solutions
Bridges
Designing Bridges
A Good Foundation
Strength of Materials
Show Me the Money
Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
Hot Cans and Cold Cans
Energy
Energy Conservation
The Energy of Light
Get Charged!
The Energy of Music
How Hot Is It?
Thar She Blows!
A River Ran Through It
Let the Sun Shine!
Design a Net-Zero Energy Classroom
Energy of Motion
Work and Power: Waterwheel
Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
What a Drag
Puttin' It All Together
Energy Systems and Solutions
Problem Solving
Energy Basics
Energy Forms, States and Conversions
Energy Resources and Systems
Energy Efficiency
Household Energy Conservation and Efficiency
Energy Projects
Efficiency of a water heating system
Efficiency of an electromechanical system
Egg Drop
Energy Choices Game
Energy Conversions
Energy forms and states demonstrations
Energy in our Lives Carousel
Energy Intelligence Agency
Energy Perspectives
Energy Sources Research
Energy Systems Activity
Household energy audit
Human Power
Light vs. Heat Bulbs
Renew-a-bead
Solving Energy Problems
Watt meters to measure energy consumption
Energy-Efficient Housing
Circuits
Light It Up
Off the Grid
Passive Solar Design
Designing a Thermostat
Solar Water Heater
Swamp Cooler
Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
Let's Move It!
Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
Powerful Pulleys
Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
Exploring Solar Power
From Sunlight to Electric Current
Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven
Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car
Floaters and Sinkers
What Floats Your Boat?
Buoyant Boats
Clay Boats
Determining Densities
Mechanics Mania
How Do Things Fall?
Crash! Bang!
Motion Commotion
Red Light, Green Light
Rocking the Boat
Stressed and Strained
Ring around the Rosie
Swinging on a String
Strong as the Weakest Link
Mixtures and Solutions
Understanding Elements
Mix It Up
Engineering and the Periodic Table
Gumdrop Atoms
Messin' with Mixtures
Put a Spark In It! - Electricity
Take Charge!
Electrons on the Move
Go with the Flow
One Path
Many Paths
Rockets
Newton Gets Me Moving
Rocket Me into Space
Blast Off
Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
Simple Machines
Just Plane Simple
Levers that Lift
Not So Simple
Rube Goldberg and the Meaning of Machines
Sound and Light
Checking the Surf
Making Music
Plumbing the Deep - Using Sound Waves to See
To Absorb or Reflect… That is the Question
Needing Illumination - Investigating Light
Visible Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
Pictures Please - Traveling Light
Students As Scientists
How Much Sugar is in Bubble Gum?
Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?
Wet Pennies
The Force of Friction
Factors Affecting Friction
Does Contact Area Matter?
Does Weight Matter?
Sliding and Stuttering
Up, Up and Away! - Airplanes
May the Force Be With You: Lift
May the Force Be With You: Weight
May the Force Be With You: Thrust
May the Force Be With You: Drag
Take Off with Paper Airplanes
Are You In Control?
Land! Water! Sky! Oh My!
Will It Fly?
Future Flights!
Using Stress and Strain to Detect Cancer!
Stress, Strain and Hooke's Law
Presenting Painless Breast Cancer Detection!
Applying Hooke's Law to Cancer Detection
Learning Imaging Techniques!
You be the Radiologist!
Physics of Roller Coasters
The Other Water Cycle
Imagine Life without Friction
Bernoulli's Principle
How Far Does a Lava Flow Go?
Rock Solid
Soapy Stress
The Science of Swinging
Two Sides of One Force
Get Your Motor Running
Heat Transfer
Swamp Cooler
Lunar Learning
A Magnetic Personality
Olympic Engineering
Electrifying the World
Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments
Carbon Cycles
Sounds Like Music
How a Faucet Works
Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures
Move It!
Art in Engineering - Moving Art
Mobile Forces
Transportation and the Environment
Locks and Dams
Engineering in Sports
Chemical Wonders
Swim to and from the Sea!
Where Has All the Water Gone?
Are Dams Forever?
Ball Bounce Experiment
Building Tetrahedral Kites
Compare Fabric Materials
Dam Forces
Dam Pass or Fail
Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
Design a Net-Zero Energy Classroom
Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti
Floating and Falling Flows
Forces and Graphing
Forces on the Human Molecule
Glue Stick Activity
How Good Is Your Hearing?
Make an Alarm!
Make Your Own Recycled Paper
Making a Liquid Xylophone
Paper Drop Design Competition
Ready, Set, Escape
Serial Dilution of a Fluorescent Compound
Serial Dilution of Food Coloring Dye
Solar Water Heater
The Squeeze is On
Stop the Stretching
Swinging with Style
Testing Fundamental Loads
Touch and Discover
Tower O' Power
What is the Best Insulator: Air, Styrofoam, Foil, or Cotton?
Wimpy Radar Antenna
Witnessing Evaporation
Yogurt Cup Speakers
Physics
Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
What a Drag
Puttin' It All Together
Energy Systems and Solutions
Problem Solving
Energy Basics
Energy Forms, States and Conversions
Energy Resources and Systems
Energy Efficiency
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