Lesson: Build a Robot Arm

(Provided courtesy of Tryengineering.org, a collaboration of IEEE, IBM and the New York Hall of Science) In this lesson for ages 8 to 18, students work in teams to design and build a working robotic arm from a set of everyday items. Each arm should be able to pick up a Styrofoam cup. Synopsis Participating [...]

Lesson: Design and Build a Road Sign Support

(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 [...]

Lesson: Remove Pollutants from Water

(“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 [...]