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Elementary School:

Potato Power
What Is Energy?
Water Resources: Why Do We Build Dams?
What Is the Best Insulator: Air, Styrofoam, Foil or Cotton?
Testing Model Structures: Jell-O Earthquake in the Classroom

Middle School:

Physics of Roller Coasters
Waves and Wave Properties
Designing Bridges
What Makes Airplanes Fly?
Exploring the Electromagnetic Spectrum

High School:

Building a Piezoelectric Generator
Pill Dissolving Demo
Everyday Polymers
Active and Passive Transport: Red Rover Send Particles Over
Math Relationships: Scale Model Building Project

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Elementary School:

Designing and Packaging a Distance-Sensing Product
Swiss Alps Emergency Sled Design
Zooming In and Out with Scale and Systems Thinking
Speedy & Compact: The Perfect Vehicle for Your Future
Light-Up Plush Pals

Middle School:

Ultrasonic Devices at the Speed of Sound!
Topographic Maps and Ratios: A Study of Denali
GIS, Mathematics and Engineering Integration
Geometry and Geocaching Using GIS & GPS
Counting Atoms: How Not to Break the Law of Conservation of Matter

High School:

Visualize Your Heartbeat
How to Design a Better Smartphone Case
Making Sense of Sensors: Visualizing Sensor Data
Simple Machines and the Rube Goldberg Challenge
Dyeing to Design

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December 2018 Editor's Pick

Simple Snow Load Roof Model Demo: Which Roof Is Tops?

How do civil engineers design structures that can withstand local weather conditions? Whether you live in a climate with heavy snowfall or not, this engaging activity helps even very young students consider the advantages of different roof shapes under a "snow load" by ...

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