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Compare different self-powered vehicles in this exploration of potenial and kinetic energy.

Have students pair engineering and data science in Data-Driven Energy Exploration!

Data-Driven Energy Exploration

In this new lesson students explore how to analyze data by building and testing one of three self-powered vehicles. They will contribute to a class data set, then iterate on the design based on the data. This lesson is great preparation for The 2025 Tech Challenge: Gravitate to Navigate.

Grades: 4-12
Duration: 90 minutes

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Like most of our resources, this lesson is aligned with the engineering strand of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).

Tech for Global Good Virtual Field Trip

Video Duration: 25 minutes Pre and Post Activities: 90 minutes

Grade Levels: 6-8

Our Tech for Global Good Virtual Field Trip. Students will meet the 2020 Tech for Global Good Laureates.

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Systems Design Challenges: Sharing Solutions

Duration: 6 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

See how systems design challenges build learners' confidence that they can communicate creative solutions to complex problems.

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Systems Design Challenges: Overview

Duration: 6 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Learn how systems design challenges build learners’ problem-solving capacity, empowering them to create change for global good.

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Systems Design Challenges: Developing Innovative Solutions

Duration: 5 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Students use the innovation design process to imagine, create, and test solutions to complex systems design problems.

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Systems Design Challenges: Connecting to Real-world Problems

Duration: 5 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

Educators and students reflect on how systems design challenges develop empathy and career connections through real-world problems.

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Storm Shield: What Living Things Need

Duration: Five 45-minute sessions

Grade Levels: K

Design and build a shelter to keep animals safe in severe weather.

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Solve the Fall

Duration: 50 minutes

Grade Levels: K-12

During this engineering-based lesson, learners design and build a device that can survive a drop in order to deliver emergency supplies.

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Social Engineering: Scam Alert!

Duration: 50-60 minutes

Grade Levels: 4-6

Students will become members of their school’s Scam Alert Team to help protect their community from internet scams.

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Shipwreck Shelters

Duration: 60 minutes

Grade Levels: 4-12

Work in teams to build structures that can withstand a natural hazard. Visit three “islands” and build a structure with only two or three materials.

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