Posted on May 9th, 2019 by Mary Lord
Students in grades 6 to 8 apply their knowledge about mountains and rocks to transportation engineering to develop a model mountain tunnel from that simulates the principles behind real-life engineering design. Teams design and create model tunnels through a clay mountain, working within design constraints and testing for success; the tunnels must meet specific design requirements and withstand a certain load.
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Tags: civil and environmental engineering, Class Activities, Grades 6-8, Lesson Plan, railroad, Transportation, tunnel
Posted on May 3rd, 2019 by Mary Lord
Students in grades 4 to 8 or higher learn the basics of electricity and sound by designing and building a working telegraph system using batteries, wire, and other simple parts. They then use their telegraphs – one of history’s most important inventions – to send and receive messages.
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Tags: Class Activities, electricity, Energy, Golden spike transcontinental railroad, History, Lesson Plan, Morse code, sound, telecommunications, telegraph, train
Posted on March 28th, 2019 by Mary Lord
TeachEngineering, the digital library of hands-on curriculum curated by the University of Colorado, Boulder’s College of Engineering, has added several new features to help STEM teachers integrate authentic engineering activities into their physics or math classes – or simply introduce concepts that engineers use on the job in fields from aerospace to software development.
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Tags: career awareness, Curriculum, Engineering, integrated STEM, Internet Resources, Mathematics, Physics, STEM education, TeachEngineerig, Videos, Web Resources
Posted on March 28th, 2019 by Mary Lord
Music can be a great teaching and learning tool – even for conveying the complexities of STEM. Showcase your or your students’ songwriting talent in the VOICES (Virtual Ongoing Interdisciplinary Collaborations on Educating with Sound) songwriting contest. Entries due December 31, 2019.
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Tags: Competitions for Students, Contest, Contest for teachers, Curriculum, Programs for Teachers, STEAM, STEM education, STEM songwriting contest, VOICE virtual ongoing interdisciplinary collaborations on educating with song
Posted on March 28th, 2019 by Mary Lord
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission to the moon, NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center is hosting an art contest for preK-12 students. Register by June 1 and submit artwork by June 15, 2019. Winning artwork will be displayed at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center.
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Tags: Apollo, art contest, Competitions for Students, Grades 6-8, Grades 9-12, Grades K-5, NASA, space exploration, Wallops Flight Facility Visitor Center
Posted on March 6th, 2019 by Mary Lord
Civil, chemical, and environmental engineers work together to develop new water treatment systems or to improve existing ones. In this activity, teams of students in grades 3-5 investigate different methods for removing pollutants from water, then design and build their own water filters from plastic bottles.
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Tags: Class Activities, drinking water, Environmental Engineering, Grades K-5, Lesson Plan, Pollution, teachengineering, water filter
Posted on February 23rd, 2019 by Mary Lord
The UL Innovative Education Award awards up to $250,000 annually to U.S. and Canadian youth empowerment and nonprofit groups with proven programs that use the environment as a pathway to STEM learning (E-STEM) and community engagement. Apply by March 12, 2019.
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Posted on February 23rd, 2019 by Mary Lord
Middle school students explore how fertilizers and other solids affect water quality by building and using sensors to measure the electrical conductivity of water samples. They then create data tables and investigate possible sources of pollutants using digital visualization tools.
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Tags: arduino, Class Activities, data analysis, electrical circuits, Electrical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Excel, Grades 6-8, HackingSTEM Microsoft, hydrology, Lesson Plan, Pollution, sensors, water quality
Posted on February 20th, 2019 by Mary Lord
The work of engineers is all around us, but many students don’t know about the exciting careers they could pursue by studying engineering. That’s particularly true for girls and students of color. Discovering You: Engineering Your World, a new STEM education initiative by NBC News Learn in partnership with ASEE, Chevron, and the National Science Foundation, aims to inspire the next generation of engineers with video profiles of diverse engineers, real-world lesson plans, and resources for teachers.
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Tags: ASEE, Chevron, Class Activities, Engineering, Internet Resources, NBCLearn, Resources for Teachers, Scholarships and Fellowships, Teacher Resources, Web Resources
