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Elementary School:

Potato Power
What Is Energy?
Engineering: Simple Machines
Water Resources: Why Do We Build Dams?
Testing Model Structures: Jell-O Earthquake in the Classroom

Middle School:

Building Roller Coasters
Designing Bridges
Physics of Roller Coasters
Straw Bridges
Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion

High School:

Bernoulli's Principle
Archimedes' Principle, Pascal's Law and Bernoulli's Principle
Bacteria Transformation
Building a Piezoelectric Generator
Pill Dissolving Demo

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- K-12 Science Teacher and STEM Coordinator

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Elementary School:

Design a Soundproof Room
Decibels and Acoustical Engineering
What Soundproofing Material Works Best?
Swiss Alps Emergency Sled Design
Zooming In and Out with Scale and Systems Thinking

Middle School:

Designing a Color-Changing Paint Using pH
Sled Hockey Design Challenge
Designing and Packaging a Distance-Sensing Product
Ultrasonic Devices at the Speed of Sound!
Topographic Maps and Ratios: A Study of Denali

High School:

The Glow Show Slime Engineering Challenge
Design Your Own Nano-Polymer Smartphone Case
Exploring the Integumentary Systems of Animals
Engineering Polymers from Potatoes
Creating Silver Nanoparticles

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March 2019 Editor's Pick

A Zombie Got My Leg Challenge: Making Makeshift Legs

Engineer a prosthetic leg and save a team member from a zombie horde! The scenario: a group of students must rush to build a prosthesis for an injured individual who "lost" their leg to amputation. Using the full engineering design process, students act as engineers to ...

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