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Looking for a smooth ride into the school year?
Have students drive their own learning in Motion Impossible!
Motion Impossible
In this three part challenge, students will design and test devices that can move a heart quickly and safely across land, water, or air.
Grades: 4-12
Duration: Three 60 minute sessions
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Like most of our resources, this lesson is aligned with the engineering strand of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). |
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Design for All Imagining Inventions
Duration: 30 min
Grade Levels: 2-8
Brainstorm solutions and create a concept sketch of a future thinking design idea.
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Design for All: Face Masks for Friends
Duration: 30 minutes
Grade Levels: K-5
Play the role of a face mask product designer.
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Creative Coding: The Internet of Things
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Levels: 4-6
Develop designs for a new Internet of Things product and evaluates their peers’ product designs.
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Cryptobabel: Coded Communication
Duration: 75-90 minutes
Grade Levels: 4-6
Analyze a code in order to determine its cipher and craft an encoded reply.
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Decontamination Algorithm
Duration: 20-60 min
Grade Levels: 3-8
Create a sequence of questions to help you figure out what surfaces are contaminated.
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Cyber Forensics: Digital Footprints
45-55 minutes
Grades 4-6
Analyze digital evidence and consider your own digital footprint
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Energy Madness
Duration: Six 50-minute sessions
Grade Levels: 4-8
Design a machine that can deliver a remote control to an immobile friend.
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Engineering Journals
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Levels: 3-8
Practice writing and documentation skills, whether in-person or virtual, with this journaling lesson.
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Design for All: Project Playground
Lesson: 60 minutes Activity: 30 minutes
Grade Levels: 3-5
Become playground designers! Draw a playground for yourself and a fictional friend using a persona.
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