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

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners make a solar oven. Learners witness the awesome power of the sun to make a yummy treat--a chocolate chip cookie!

$10 - $20 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore how engineers have developed big wheels or Ferris wheels.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 8 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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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.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 2 hours
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This is an activity about robotics programming. Learners will discover how precise programmers have to be as they instruct a friend to make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - adult 5 to 10 minutes
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In this activity, learners explore trebuchet design. Teams of learners construct trebuchets from everyday materials.

$10 - $20 per group Ages 11 - 18 1 to 2 hours
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In this activity, learners work in groups to design a parachute out of household items that keeps an egg secure when dropped from a certain height.

free Ages 11 - 18 45 to 60 minutes
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Learners work in groups to construct bridges using stale marshmallows and toothpicks.

$5 - $10 per group Ages 11 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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In this design challenge activity, learners build a shock-absorbing system that will protect two “astronauts” when they land.

$1 - $5 per student Ages 8 - 14 30 to 45 minutes
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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.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 8 - 14 1 to 7 days
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This activity demonstrates the importance of wearing a helmet to protect the brain. An egg is used to symbolize a head with the shell as the skull and the inside of the egg as the brain.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 4 - 14 10 to 30 minutes
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Learners explore soybeans, soak them in water to remove their coat, and then split them open to look inside. They also make a musical shaker out of paper cups, a cardboard tube, and soybeans.

1 cent - $1 per student Ages 4 - 11 45 to 60 minutes
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In this activity, learners follow simple historical maritime recipes to cook up hardtack and swanky, and then compare the foods they eat to what was served on ships in the past.

$1 - $5 per group Ages 4 - 11 1 to 2 hours
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In this dynamic activity, learners build a catapult that launches projectiles, such as marshmallows.

1 cent - $1 per group Ages 6 - 11 30 to 45 minutes
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In this activity, learners review the history of gumball machines and explore potential and kinetic energy, while working in teams to build a gumball slide.

Over $20 per group Ages 8 - 18 2 to 4 hours