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Beginning kindergarteners are introduced to science and engineering concepts through questions such as “What is a Scientist?” and “What is an…

For this maker challenge, students move through the engineering design process as they become biomedical engineers who design, create, and test a…

Students discover the scientific basis for the use of inclined planes. Using a spring scale, a bag of rocks and an inclined plane, student groups…

Students apply high school-level differential calculus and physics to the design of two-dimensional roller coasters in which the friction force is…

How does mass affect momentum in a head-on collision? Students explore this question and experience the open-ended engineering design process as if…

Student teams investigate the properties of electromagnets. They create their own small electromagnets and experiment with ways to change their…

Civil engineers design structures such as buildings, dams, highways and bridges. Student teams explore the field of engineering by making bridges…

Students are tasked with designing a special type of hockey stick for a sled hockey team—a sport designed for individuals with physical disabilities…

Students are given the engineering challenge to design and build doghouses that shelter a (toy) puppy from the heat—and to create them within…

Students are introduced to polymer science and take on the role of chemical engineers to create and test a plastic made from starch. After testing…

Students experience the engineering design process as they design and construct lower-leg prostheses in response to a hypothetical zombie apocalypse…

The difference between architects and engineers can be confusing because their roles in building design can be similar. Students experience a bit of…

Students investigate the difference between qualitative and quantitative measurements and observations. By describing objects both qualitatively and…

When you look around your neighborhood, what do the roofs look like? What if you lived in an area with a different climate, how might that affect the…

Students learn about material reuse by designing and building the strongest and tallest towers they can using only recycled materials. Teams…

Students design, build and test model race cars made from simple materials (lifesaver-shaped candies, plastic drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index…

Students become familiar with the concept of a communication system, its various parts and functions. To do this, they encode, decode, transmit…

Students are asked to design simple yet accurate timing devices using limited supplies. The challenge is to create a device that measures out a time…

How do engineers find oil? Students learn how fossil fuels are formed over time and where under the Earth's crust we find them. Then student teams…

Using ordinary household materials, student “biomedical engineering” teams design prototype models that demonstrate semipermeability under the…