Elementary School:
- Engineering: Simple Machines
- Powerful Pulleys
- Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
- Water Cycle
- Circuits: One Path for Electricity
Middle School:
- Air - Is It Really There?
- Physics of Roller Coasters
- Spaghetti Bridges
- Designing Bridges
- Design a Catapult
High School:
- Archimedes' Principle, Pascal's Law and Bernoulli's Principle
- Doing the Math: Analysis of Forces in a Truss Bridge
- Building a Piezoelectric Generator
- Creative Engineering Design: Engineering Design Process & Design Thinking
- Creative Engineering Design: Paper Tower Design Challenge
Over the years, I have enjoyed reviewing TeachEngineering submissions and observing the increased quality of the manuscripts. The submissions are getting better and better in terms of their STEM topics, activity details, organization and writing. Congratulations and please keep up the good work.
- External reviewer and university engineering professor
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August 2026 Editor's Pick
Mindful Messages: Engineering Communication Solutions
Students explore how the brain enables communication through spoken and written language and how communication is essential for solving problems. Working in groups, students define a problem related to communication, design a solution using a micro:bit, build a ...