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Elementary School:

Properties of Mixtures vs. Solutions: Mix It Up!
The Dirty Water Project: Design-Build-Test Your Own Water Filters
Potato Power
Architects and Engineers: Working Together to Design Structures
Engineering: Simple Machines

Middle School:

Paper Airplanes: Building, Testing, & Improving. Heads Up!
Clay Boats
Water Bottle Rockets
Building Roller Coasters
Designing Bridges

High School:

Design Step 1: Identify the Need
Triangles & Trusses
Design Step 5: Construct a Prototype
Fun Look at Material Science
Superhydrophobicity — The Lotus Effect

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Elementary School:

Monumental Movements
Prodigious Printing Possibilities
Naturally Organized
Be “Cool” with Popsicle Engineering
Engineering a Habitat’s Humidity

Middle School:

Trebuchet Design & Build Challenge
Engineering the Perfect Gummy Candy
Design Air Racer Cars Using Tinkercad
Design and Test a Ping-Pong Paddle
Cooler Design Challenge

High School:

3D Printing, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and G-Code Basics
A Sweet Volume: Designing a Jumbo Chocolate Bar Using Polynomials
The Glow Show Slime Engineering Challenge
Design Your Own Nano-Polymer Smartphone Case
Exploring the Integumentary Systems of Animals

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July 2019 Editor's Pick

Spaghetti Bridges

Explore the world of civil engineering and become a bridge designer using a favorite food: spaghetti! In this activity, students play the role of civil engineers by making bridges out of spaghetti, and then test their designs by applying weight in order to see when they ...

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