Posted on April 22nd, 2009 by ASEE
(Provided courtesy of Women in Engineering Pro-Active Network, or WEPAN) In this two-period (90 minutes total) activity for grades 3 and 4, students learn the basics of engineering associated with the design of telephones to make them more accessible for people who have a visual or hearing impairment or who lack fine motor skills. Overview [...]
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Posted on April 8th, 2009 by ASEE
(Provided courtesy of Teachengineering.org and VaNTH-ERC, Vanderbilt University) In this 50-minute activity for grades 10-12, students use an old fashioned children’s toy, a metal slinky, to mimic and understand the magnetic field generated in an Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine. The metal slinky mimics the magnetic field of a solenoid, which forms the basis for [...]
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