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Students design and create their own air-powered rockets, in this hands-on activity.

In this activity, learners build an electric two-paddle boat using paint paddles, plastic knives, and empty water bottles.

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 activity, learners make a scale model of an atom to see how big or how small an atom is compared to its nucleus. Learners will realize that most of matter is just empty space!

In this activity, learners design, build and test a model suspension bridge for sturdiness and strength.

In this activity, learners design and build a NASA rover using raw pasta and candy with a limited imaginary budget.

In this project, students explore how levers work, by making a puppet with moving limbs.

In this engineering activity (page 3 of PDF), young learners investigate how a pole can be made stable by “planting” its base in the ground or adding supports to the base.

In this activity, learners make water rockets to explore Newton's Third Law of Motion. Learners make the rockets out of plastic bottles and use a bicycle pump to pump them with air.

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

In this design challenge, learners build a boat that paddles itself using a rubber band as its power source.

Create airplanes from straws and geometric shapes. Test them out to see how far they can fly, or how accurately they can be aimed.

In this hands-on activity, learners use the steps of the design process to create a hook to rescue a "space capsule" from the water.

In this design challenge activity, learners build a tower that’s at least 12 inches high with two or more parts that move (spin, sway, or flap) in the wind.

Learners explore the Bernoulli effect by building an airfoil (airplane wing) and making it fly.

Learners work in groups to construct bridges using stale marshmallows and toothpicks.

In this activity, learners build one or more edible coral polyps and place them together to form a colony.

Learners design, build, and test models of "dragon boats" made from up to three milk cartons.

In this activity, learners will engineer three different parachutes to test how well each one works.

In this activity, learners will make a marionette puppet and put on a show. Learners will explore color, design, fabrication and storytelling through this activity.