http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering Blog about the growing role of engineering in K-12 education. Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:24:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en (Provided courtesy of Teachengineering.org, with additional material from National Geographic, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA.) Summary Hurricane season is here, reminding us that accurate weather forecasts can be a matter of life and death in vulnerable coastal areas of the country. Even inland, severe thunderstorms play havoc with ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/lesson-weather-forecasting/ (Provided courtesy of TeachEngineering.org and the Drexel University GK-12 Program) Hard drive (freefoto.com) In this two-hour activity for grades 7-9, students learn about the practical uses, structure, mathematics and terminology of the binary number system. They learn how to convert a given number from the binary to the decimal ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/activity-build-a-hard-drive/ (Provided courtesy of Science Netlinks and the American Association for the Advancement of Science) In this lesson for Grades K-2, youngsters come to understand that there are limits to what the eye can see and that a magnifying glass can help extend those limits. Context Children come equipped with natural curiosity and creativity ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/lesson-magnify-it/ (Provided courtesy of Teachers' Domain, WGBH Educational Foundation and WPSU) In this series of lessons for grades 6-8, students first experiment with a virtual solar cooker to discover the mathematical relationship among reflection, transmission and absorption. Then they apply their knowledge to building and testing a solar cooker of their own ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/lesson-solar-cooking/ (Provided courtesy of the Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology) In this activity for grades 6-12, students design a seawall to protect a major coastal highway from erosion by ocean waves and address these questions: Erosion--can you fight it? How much energy is involved with ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/activity-prevent-shore-erosion/ (Provided courtesy of Teachengineering.org) This 50-minute lesson for grades 3-5 introduces the ways that engineers study and harness the wind. Students will learn about the different kinds of winds and how to measure wind direction; how air pressure creates winds, and how engineers build and test wind turbines to harness energy ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/lesson-harnessing-wind/ (Provided courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the International Technology Education Association, the Center to Advance the Teaching of Technology, and Science and Engineering by Design) In this two-hour lesson, middle-school students use the engineering design process to design a plant growth chamber for use on the lunar surface. ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/lesson-a-garden-on-the-moon/ (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 ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/activity-phones-for-special-needs/ (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 ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/activity-slinkies-and-magnetic-fields/ (Provided courtesy of the National Science Digital Library and WPSU) In this design challenge for grades 6 to 8, students will harness the power of the sun to design, construct and evaluate a solar-powered modelcar of their creation. Students will utilize the design process and undergo review by their peers to ... http://blogs.asee.org/goengineering/lesson-design-and-race-a-solar-car/