Posted on December 29th, 2008 by ASEE
(Provided courtesy of Teachers’ Domain and the WGBH Educational Foundation) Overview In this activity for grades 6 to 12, students use simple materials to design, build, and test a model of a free-standing structure used to support overhead road signs. First, students watch a video on the engineering design process. Then the design challenge is [...]
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Posted on December 15th, 2008 by ASEE
(“Using Boiling Water to Create Clean Water” is provided courtesy of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education at the Stevens Institute of Technology.) In this lesson for grades 6 through 12, the goal is for students to figure out how to collect steam from boiling “polluted” water and then let it condense [...]
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Posted on December 1st, 2008 by ASEE
(Provided Courtesy of the Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago) In this activity, late-elementary school students work in small groups to build a roller coaster with at least one loop and one jump, demonstrating how potential energy transforms into kinetic energy. Students observe the relationship of height to potential energy and the resulting kinetic energy. [...]
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