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
- Designing Bridges
- Spaghetti 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
- Creative Engineering Design: Engineering Design Process & Design Thinking
- Building a Piezoelectric Generator
- Creative Engineering Design: Paper Tower Design Challenge
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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 ...