Engineering Instruments – Page 5 – STEMAZing Systems Thinking

Pie Pan Tambourine

Turn a foil pie pan into a tambourine!

Coconut Can Percussion

Turn a coconut can into a percussion instrument you can shake, tap, and scrape to create a beat.

RAFT

Resource Area for Teaching Idea Sheets – a collection of more than 700 searchable ideas. All use easy-to-find cheap materials.

Habits of Mind

16 Habits of Mind that we want to develop in our students.

Combine two unrelated ideas to inspire a creative new design! Engineers often use everyday objects to stimulate creative ideas. For example, an early ballpoint pen designer might have had a flash of inspiration while looking at a pencil!

Buzz Off, from RAFT

Buzz Off, when whirled around, makes a sound like an insect. A fantastic project for engineering the way it performs by making modifications to the original design.

STEMAZing Journal Hack

photo of a journal made with the STEMAZing hack

Make graph paper STEMAZing journals that require no staples or tape using an old bookbinding trick.