About Teach Engineering
Teach Engineering (TE) empowers formal and informal educators, regardless of engineering experience, to lead with confidence and spark students’ excitement for discovery. By connecting classroom learning to real-world possibilities, TE helps teachers introduce engineering to all students to inspire the next generation of creators and changemakers.
Teach Engineering's greatest strength lies in its ability to support teachers at all levels, from novice to expert. This program has been there to support my growth as an educator and my students' learning.
K-12 STEM Educator
Digital Library
The Teach Engineering Digital Library empowers educators to create engaging STEM experiences with free, hands-on resources that promote sense-making, inquiry, problem-solving, and real-world connections-enhancing K-12 STEM education for all. Our goal is to help educators put the 'E' in STEM by bringing applied science, technology, and math to life through engineering design and design thinking.
Free hands-on K-12 engineering resources that use low-cost, readily available materials.
Improve students' understanding of fundamental engineering, math, science and technology concepts by engaging their design, visualization, creativity and teamwork skills.
All resources are written by educators for educators, have been classroom tested and are reviewed by external educators and engineers.
Most of our resources are aligned to K-12 math and science educational standards such as Next Generation Science Standards, Standards of Technology and Engineering Literacy, and/or Common Core Math Standards.
Our comprehensive "how-to" videos augment our curriculum, providing step-by-step guidance to help educators seamlessly integrate hands-on engineering lessons and activities into their classrooms.
As you browse and search the collection, notice our three curriculum types: activities, lessons, and units. You can use the search filter to limit your searches to one of these document types.
Professional Development
Many K-12 science and math teachers feel ill-equipped to connect engineering and design thinking with STEM subjects in their classrooms. Teach Engineering professional development equips formal and informal K-12 educators with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to effectively integrate engineering design and design thinking into their existing STEM curriculum.
Community of Practice
Teach Engineering’s mission is to ensure that all students have opportunities to engage with engineering and the engineering design process. By collaborating with other organizations, the Engineering Education Community of Practice makes engineering education more accessible, provides resources and opportunities to support educators, and creates interest and skills to a broader range of students.
Teach Engineering's History
Teach Engineering was founded in 2001 with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Teach Engineering continues to expand with published curricula from nearly 100 different institutions, including many NSF Research Experience for Teachers (RET) sites across the country. Each curricular resource includes acknowledgements recognizing individual authors along with any supporting programs, institutions, or organizations that contributed to its development.
In 2010, Teach Engineering received a "recognition of excellence" award from the National Science Digital Library—the National Science Foundation's online library of resources and collections for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education and research.
In 2020, Teach Engineering's Professional Development was the first program to receive endorsement from the American Society of Engineering Education (ASEE).
Teach Engineering is part of the Center for Technology Workforce Innovation (CTWI) at the College of Engineering & Applied Science at the University of Colorado Boulder. CTWI's mission is to build the technology workforce of the future by supporting organizations and initiatives that strengthen and expand the nation's technology talent pool (K-12 through career).
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