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Shipping for Survival
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In this activity, learners explore how packaging engineers develop customized shipping and packaging containers to meet the needs of many different industries.

Planting with Precision
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers work to solve the challenges of a society, such as efficient planting and harvesting.

Can You Copperplate?
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In this activity, learners explore chemical engineering and how the processes of chemical plating and electroplating have impacted many industries.

Pollution Patrol
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers design devices that can detect the presence of pollutants in the air.

Measuring the Wind
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In this activity, learners explore how anemometers work to record wind speeds and how the equipment has undergone engineering adaptations over time.

Chair Lift Challenge
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In this activity, learners explore the unique challenges in transportation engineering, such as devising a method for skiers or hikers to get to the top of a mountain.

Conveyor Engineering
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In this activity, learners explore the engineering behind the conveyor belt and consider the impact this invention has had on transportation and the coordinated shipping and delivery of goods.

Dispenser Designs
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers work in a team to solve problems.

Smooth Operator
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In this activity, learners explore surgical instrument design. Teams of learners construct surgical instruments from everyday materials.

Rescue Rover
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In this activity, learners explore how rescue devices are designed to aid professionals during emergency situations.

A Question of Balance
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers use scales and measures when designing a manufacturing process to ensure that final products are uniform in weight or count.

Playing with Parachutes
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In this activity, learners explore how parachutes are used to slow down moving objects. Learners work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own parachutes out of everyday items.

Rubber Band Racers
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In this activity, learners explore the design of rubber band powered cars. Learners work in teams of "engineers" to design and build their own rubber band cars out of everyday items.

How the Rubber Meets the Road
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers design tire treads to increase safety and reliability.

Spring Scale Engineering
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In this activity, learners explore how spring scales work and how they are used for non-exact weight measurement.

Temperature Tactics
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In this activity, learners explore the devices used over time to measure changes in temperature.

Solar Structures
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In this activity, learners explore how the power of the sun can be harnessed to heat and cool a building.

Making Sense of Sensors
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In this activity, learners explore sensors and focus specifically on how to measure humidity using a sensor.

Pendulum Time
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In this activity, learners explore how the pendulum has been a reliable way to keep time for centuries.

The Power of Graphene
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This lesson focuses on graphene and its electrical properties and applications.