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This hands-on experiment will provide learners with an understanding of the issues that surround environmental cleanup.

Learners play the role of materials engineers as they test the flexibility of different materials.

Learners investigate stress and strain by designing, building, and testing beams made from polymer clay.

This lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted the design and engineering of many everyday items from paint to fabrics.

In this activity (located on pages 23-24 of the PDF), learners are introduced to structural engineering and encouraged to practice goal-oriented building.

In this two part activity, learners work in pairs or individually to discover how vectoring the thrust from a jet engine affects movement of an airplane.

In this activity, learners explore the engineering behind seismographs and how technology has improved accurate recording of earthquakes.

In this design challenge activity, learners build a rubber band-powered rover that can scramble across the room.

In this activity learners will build roller coasters and test them using small balls or marbles.

Learners set up books with rubber bands stretched between the books. When two identical books are stretched apart and released, they move back toward each other an equal distance.

Learners build and investigate pendulums of different lengths. They discover that the longer the string of the pendulum, the longer the time it takes to swing.

Learners develop awareness and understanding of the daily air quality using the Air Quality Index (AQI) listed in the newspaper or online.

The goal of this activity is to design the fastest sailboat or one that carries the most treasure.

In this activity, learners build scaled-down structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with bamboo skewers and tape.

In this activity, learners explore how product design differences can affect the success of a final product -- in this case a bag for holding candy.

This lesson focuses on surface area and how the shape of sugar crystals may differ as they are grown from sugars of different coarseness.

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).

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.

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).

In this activity, learners build large-scale structures and cantilevers in a series of "building out" challenges with garden poles and tape.