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

In this activity, learners explore how wind tunnels provide feedback to engineers about the performance and durability of products such as planes, cars, and buildings.

In this activity, learners explore the engineering design process (EDP)—the process engineers use to solve design challenges.

Students design and build their own parachutes in this hands-on engineering project.

MarsBound! is an engineering simulation activity in which learners use realistic techniques to plan a mission to Mars.

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.

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

In this engineering activity, learners design their own board games.

In this activity, learners are invited to imagine the park of their dreams!

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

This lesson focuses on how nanotechnology has impacted our society and how engineers have learned to explore the world at the nanoscale.

In this online Flash game, learners test their engineering know-how, moving a collection of mechanical parts onto a board to make complete a system of parts that will move a ball from start to finish.

In this activity, learners investigate passive solar building design with a focus solely on heating.

Learners work in groups to build model cars from paper parts. First, each learner builds cars individually and the group times themselves.

In this activity, learners simulate the process of DNA fingerprinting by using electricity to separate colored dyes.

In this design challenge activity, learners build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two “astronauts” when they land.

In this experiment, learners design and build a model room in a shoebox and furnish it with tiny furniture.

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).