Elementary School:
- Engineering: Simple Machines
- Powerful Pulleys
- Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
- Water Cycle
- Waterwheel Work: Energy Transformations and Rotational Rates
Middle School:
- Air - Is It Really There?
- Physics of Roller Coasters
- Spaghetti Bridges
- Design a Catapult
- Designing Bridges
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
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July 2026 Editor's Pick
Bright Ideas: Exploring Light Reflection and Sun Safety With Micro:Bits
Students engage in a hands-on exploration of vision and light reflection by creating a program that simulates light intensity and how our eyes perceive images using the LED display on the micro: bits and its radio feature. After creating a model of an eye, students ...