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Free engineering simulations
FREE STEM Activity | Nonrenewable Energy | Cookie Coal Mining Experiment
This Chocolate Chip Cookie Mining STEM Activity is a FREE sample from our Renewable and Nonrenewable Energy STEM Activities. It includes teacher directions and a student worksheet.See the description of the full resource below:Renewable and Nonrenewable energy resources can be confusing and boring for students. This STEM energy unit includes everything you need to teach about renewable and nonrenewable resources in a fun, interactive, hands on way! Your students will engage in hands on STEM acti
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3rd - 5th
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STEM • Engineering: Popcorn Chef (mixtures and solutions)
Your students have been hired to create a new tasty popcorn recipe. In this STEM project students will use mixtures and solutions. This project contains criteria and constraints, allowing for open-ended design while exploring a specific standard. Includes:· Teacher guide · Projectable (or printable) scenario page· Student guide page· STEM group job assignments · STEM poster· Discussion questions· Reflection rubric Materials Needed: Teacher Materials:• Microwave• Package of small paper cups and
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3rd - 5th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
Pulleys: Simple Machines, Hands-On Engineering & Science Lessons for Kids
This sample pulley lesson is a relevant and captivating activity designed to engage children with engineering experiences and teach them to actively think and question the world around them. During this lesson, participants will compare pulley size. Additionally, participants learn to identify pulleys as a simple machine, use higher level thinking to make comparisons, ask and answer questions, make predictions, and test hypotheses. Participants will be required to work together, encourage teamwo
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1st - 8th
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Earth Systems Earthquake Project
Students will learn about plate tectonics and earthquakes while analyzing maps and designing a building to react to the natural disaster. This is a hands on lesson that your students will love! Lesson is designed using project based learning strategies and Next Generation Science Standards for 4th grade.Next Generation Science Standards Included:3-5-ETS1-1, 3-5-ETS1-3, 4-ESS2-2, 4-ESS1-1
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4th
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Girl Scouts Friendship Circuit Circle: Daisy/Brownie/Junior STEM Activity
Circuits are everywhere - but how do they work? This hands-on activity will help your Girl Scouts understand how a circuit moves battery energy to a flashlight bulb. Use the activity to work on the Think Like an Engineer Journey series (DBJCSA), the Junior Get Moving Journey, and Designing Robots for all levels.
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Not Grade Specific
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
, 4-PS3-2
Vertical Circular Motion Simulation.
Vertical Circular Motion: An HTML5 simulation: like PhET, but a bit different.A simulation of a single object that can move in a vertical circle in a gravitational field. It can simulate virtually any vertical circular motion, including that of a pendulum. The object can move as a...pendulumobject moving in a circle with and without a gravitational field The object moving in a circle can be...on the end of a light stringon the end of a light rodon the inside of a circular trackinitially on a
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9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
Cardboard Carnival Lesson
In this lesson, students will create a carnival game out of recycled materials. There is nothing more engaging that students who are proud of their work. This cardboard carnival allows students to show off all of the letters in STEAM while focusing on the engineering design process. **************************************************Customer Tips:How to get TPT credit to use on future purchases:• Please go to your My Purchases page (you may need tologin). Beside each purchase you'll see a Provide
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Grades:
6th - 8th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, MS-PS3-2
, MS-ETS1-1
, MS-PS3-5
, MS-PS3-1
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Architecture and Engineering with Angry Birds
A fun architecture, engineering, and coding activity with Jenga blocks and Angry Birds. Student teams will research, plan, and engineer Jenga block castles. Teams will then investigate the strength and design of their castle utilizing several, common brick bond patterns. If you don't have robots for coding, students can roll marble "birds" at an opponent's castle.
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3rd - 6th
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Engineering Design Challenge: Building Creek and Cherokee Homes
Allow students to explore engineering as they research about Creek and Cherokee homes, and choose one type of home to design and build. Students then get to test the strength and stability of their home against various types of weather. This powerpoint includes narration within the notes to give additional lesson planning tips for each component of the engineering design process. A rubric is also included which measures students' knowledge regarding the Creek and Cherokee Native Americans, use o
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1st - 5th
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Social Studies & Science Lesson | Design Thinking | Gr. 9-12
Looking for an interdisciplinary lesson that merges science, social studies, and engineering concepts? This comprehensive lesson plan for grades 9-12 dives deep into understanding the effectiveness and equity of various climate solutions. Through the use of Climate Interactive’s En-ROADS simulator, students will be challenged to create actionable scenarios to curb global warming to 1.5°C. In addition to a complete lesson plan, this resource includes 10 activities with worksheets, a teacher answe
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Grades:
9th - 12th
NGSS:
HS-ETS1-3
, HS-ESS3-4
, HS-ETS1-4
Pollinator Model: NGSS Picture Book STEM Challenge
In this engineering challenge, students help the Donut Detectives make a model of an insect pollinating flowers. This engineering lesson is for use with the science picture book Donut Detective Agency: It’s Show Time! which is available for purchase through TPT (eBook) Amazon (print). The activity covers NGSS engineering standards for K-2. Includes:· Teacher Guide· Challenge Scenario Page· Student Pages [engineering design process]· STEM Poster· Rubric· Exit Slip/Reflection· STEM Group Jobs M
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1st - 3rd
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NGSS:
K-2-ETS1-2
, K-2-ETS1-3
, K-2-ETS1-1
, 2-LS2-2
Intro to CAD - Measuring a 3d Print model with Calipers and then Model it in CAD
This assignment is to be used early in a CAD class. Seek out the STL file to 3d print a sample model for students to measure with a caliper. They will learn how to take and record measurements. The second task is to recreate this model in CAD. Files for the STL and CAD model are on Thingiverse, which is linked on page 2.
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Not Grade Specific
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Human logic gates engineering workshop
You might have heard that computers run on ones and zeroes, but how do those numerical “bits” interact to power your favorite game or make a video call? This workshop will introduce you to digital logic — the foundation of modern electronics and software. You’ll learn about how you’ve already been using logic in your daily lives, and you’ll get to experience “a day in the life” of a logic gate.
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4th - 9th
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UX Workshop - Design Thinking in your Daily Life
We’ll get comfortable with not jumping to solutions, by diving into the problem and its users! We’ll apply industry-standard UX problem investigation skills to understanding the characteristics and users of common conflicts.
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4th - 8th
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NGSS:
3-5-ETS1-1
Tello Drone Simulator
This is the pdf presentation that can be used with students to introduce programming and how programming will work for the Tello drone.This is a project-based learning exercise that uses the DJI Tello drone (https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello) which is targeted for education, the Python programming language (http://pythonineducation.org/en/), and a free online simulator we developed. While we have used multiple different models of this project, the base requirement is for a single drone and comp
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Grades:
3rd - 7th
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NGSS:
MS-ETS1-2
, 3-5-ETS1-3
, MS-ETS1-4
, MS-ETS1-1
, 3-5-ETS1-2
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Nocturnals Ominous Eye - Engineer a Nesting Sanctuary Activity
Investigate environments and the influence they have on inheritance and variation of traits. Using this information, students research, hypothesize and engineer a "sanctuary" for the endangered reptile, the tuatara.
The Nocturnals Science Guides for The Ominous Eye contain lessons and activity sheets that are aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Recommended for students ages 7-12. For use with Tracey Hecht's middle grade series The Nocturnals.
This guide was written by Erica Colo
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3rd - 6th
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1:12
Cloning: A Genetics Flipped Lesson
Ever think about flipping your classroom? This is a whiteboard animation on Genetics and Cloning. I created and used this as a part of my own flipped classroom. It is available for download so that you may add in your own commentary as you see fit. Students truly enjoy watching videos more if they feel like it is their own teacher delivering the instruction.
If you would like to see what kind of commentary I have added on my rendition of the video, you may watch it here: https://www.youtube
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7th - 12th
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Human impact on nature - Energetics
This lesson contains 3D models. Some of them are available after a free registration to the Lifeliqe app.NGSS and CCSS aligned.In this lesson, students will learn about the impact of human activities on nature, focussing on the energetics.Methodology:• Discussion• Reading• Lecture• ProjectThe principal learning objectives are:• Find out how humans impact nature and the climate. • Understand the mechanisms causing this impact. • Identify the causes of adverse human influence on nature and the cli
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K - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education, Staff
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HS-ESS2-7
CleverBooks Space
CleverBooks Space is a free mobile application empowered by Augmented Reality (controlled virtual reality through a mobile device and a marker).It covers engineering and space interactive Augmented Reality tasks for primary and secondary level kids.It is designed to enhance interest and curiosity levels in STEM, particularly focused on topics like astronomy, space exploration, and space technology.The areas covered: planets of the Solar system, space rocket assembling, functions of the SpaceX ro
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4th - 8th
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Circuitous
Circuitous is a fully functional circuit simulator. We've layered on top a series of challenges that people can help direct a student's learning, but students can simply play around with the simulator as well.
Each challenge has a series of hints, an example solution, and a video explanation of the challenge and solution.
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8th - 12th
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Microwave Engineering
The continuing popularity of Microwave Engineering is gratifying. I have received many letters and emails from students and teachers from around the world with positive comments and suggestions. I think one reason for its success is the emphasis on the fundamentals of electromagnetics, wave propagation, network analysis, and design principles as applied to modern RF and microwave engineering
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Not Grade Specific
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Are you ready for progress ?
This is a worksheet to launch debates in class. After browsing the net to gather ideas, pupils debate in in 1v1 mode (person or group).
Grades:
11th - 12th
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Graphical Understanding of Resultant force / Net Force
Use some simple animation to illustrate to students how the size (magnitude) of resultant force of two component forces depends on the angle between the two component forces.
The size of the resultant force ranges from zero to the arithmetic sum of the sizes of the two component forces.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
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Grades:
7th - 12th
Economic Competition Project
This is a project to teach students about the healthy competition part of economics. Students get to come up with a product and try to sell it to their class mates. The winning team gets a prize.
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Grades:
9th - 12th, Higher Education, Adult Education
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