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Fizzy Nano Challenge
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This lesson focuses on how materials behave differently as their surface area increases.
Heavy Lifting: Design Squad
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In this engineering challenge, learners design and build a crane out of cardboard to see how heavy a load it can lift.
Landing the Rover
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In this team design challenge (page 19-24 of PDF), learners "land" a model Lunar Rover in a model Landing Pod (both previously built in activities #3 and #4 in PDF).
Twirling in the Breeze
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In this engineering activity, learners build a device (an anemometer) to measure how fast the wind is blowing.
Deep Sea Diver
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In this ocean engineering activity, learners explore buoyancy and water displacement. Then, learners design models of deep sea divers that are neutrally buoyant.
Design a Lunar Rover!
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In this team design challenge (page 2-10 of PDF), learners design and build a model of a Lunar Transport Rover that will carry equipment and people on the surface of the Moon.
Design a Landing Pod!
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In this team design challenge (page 11-18 of PDF), learners design and build a Landing Pod for a model Lunar Rover (previously built in activity on page 1-10 of PDF).
As Straight as a Pole
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In this engineering activity (page 3 of PDF), young learners investigate how a pole can be made stable by “planting” its base in the ground or adding supports to the base.
Designing a Wall
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In this engineering activity (page 5 of PDF), young learners investigate how materials and design contribute to the strength of a structure, particularly walls.
Exploring at the Nanoscale
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This lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted our society and how engineers have learned to explore the world at the nanoscale.
The Awesome Game Race
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In this engineering activity, learners design their own board games.
Getting Your Bearings
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of friction and how ball bearings reduce friction.
Critical Load
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In this activity, learners explore the concepts of structural engineering and how to measure the critical load, or the maximum weight a structure can bear.
Move That Lighthouse!
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers work in a team to solve problems.
Adaptive Device Design
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In this activity, learners explore the concept of how engineering has made possible the development of--and ongoing improvements to--adaptive devices that serve to help individuals with a wide range o
Tall Tower Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore the design of tall structures such as skyscrapers and telecommunication towers.
Temperature Tactics
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In this activity, learners explore the devices used over time to measure changes in temperature.
Design a Park
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In this activity, learners are invited to imagine the park of their dreams!
Sugar Crystal Challenge
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This lesson focuses on surface area and how the shape of sugar crystals may differ as they are grown from sugars of different coarseness.
Popsicle Bridge
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In this activity, learners explore how engineering has impacted the development of bridges over time, including innovative designs and the challenge of creating bridges that become landmarks for a cit