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In this activity, learners explore how engineers incorporate biometric technologies into products as well as the challenges of engineers who must weigh privacy, security and other issues when designin

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

In this activity, learners explore the concept of valve operation and how engineers have adapted valves for use in mechanical heart valve design.

Learners participate in a variety of activities modeling different disabilities.

In this engineering design challenge, learners build an octopus-inspired suction pad that can grab an object and hold it tightly in the air.

In this activity, learners consider the water features they might enjoy at a community park--a pond, brook, water playground (or "sprayground"), or pool--and what happens to the water over time.

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

In this engineering activity, challenge learners to invent a water filter that cleans dirty water.

In this activity, learners extract DNA from wheat germ. Use this activity to introduce learners to DNA, biotechnology and genetic engineering.

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

In this game (on pages 14-21), learners explore how each human being inherits genetic traits such as eye color.

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

In this activity, learners make a small batch of biodiesel that will work in any diesel engine. Learners use an old juice bottle as a "reactor" vessel to chemically process vegetable oil into fuel.

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

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 activity, learners investigate the history and development of agricultural biotechnology.

In this activity, learners model directed evolution by making paper fly. Learners construct and fly paper airplanes.

In this lesson, learners develop a robot arm using common materials. Learners explore design, construction, and teamwork, as well as materials selection and use.

In this activity, learners design a therapeutic agent to image and/or cure various diseases in the respiratory system.

In this activity related to plant biotechnology, learners use restriction enzymes to cut up DNA from a virus called Bacteriophage λ, a process known as restriction digestion.