Engineer This!
Using the STEMAZing Picture Books Those Darn Squirrels and Those Darn Squirrels Fly South, this workshop will use engineering design projects from the Resource Area for Teachers, Toys from Trash, How Wee Learn, and Instructables to engineer “Launching Things” and “Flying Things”. Particular attention will be given to how you can take these great hands-on activities and make them minds-on as well! Lots of make and take projects will be a part of this training! Learn about the Engineering Design Process and Habits of Mind. With the resources and supplies provided, you can turn your students into engineers.
Engineering Design Projects and Lessons
Design Inspirations from RAFT
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 ...
Engineering the World’s Best Glider using IDEAS Engineering Journal
This lesson serves as a great introduction to the engineering design process when you have a design or prototype and you are attempting to improve that design. In this case, students start with an original ...
Exploravision
The ExploraVision competition for K-12 students engages the next generation in real world problem solving with a strong emphasis on STEM. ExploraVision challenges students envision and communicate new technology 20 years in the future through ...
got problems? let’s solve ’em Engineering Journal
From noticing problems to brainstorming solutions to testing prototypes, making modifications, and marketing a final product, this journal will walk students step-by-step through the engineering design process as it relates to solving a problem for ...
How Wee Learn Egg Carton Helicopter
Take the paper helicopter to the next level by adding an egg carton cockpit ...
IDEAS Engineering Journal – Virtual Edition
The IDEAS Engineering Journal is meant to be used to engineer improvements to an existing design. Have you built a glider or a wobble head rattle writer or ANYTHING? Use this journal to brainstorm modifications, ...
Instructables
Instructables is a place that lets you explore, document, and share your creations ...
Instructables Rubber Band Helicopters
Use physics to create a helicopter capable of flying over 20 feet high ...
Instructables Zipline Racers
These self-propelled racers will have students exploring variables for weeks! ...
NC State Engineering Design Process
One of our favorite versions of the Engineering Design Process, especially the part of failure! ...
Quirky
Quirky enables everyday problem solvers to turn their inventions into successful products ...
RAFT
Resource Area for Teaching Idea Sheets - a collection of more than 700 searchable ideas. All use easy-to-find cheap materials ...
RAFT Puff Rocket
Launch straw rockets off your puff rocket launcher made from a squeeze-able bottle ...
STEMAZing Journal Hack
Make graph paper STEMAZing journals that require no staples or tape using an old bookbinding trick ...
Toys From Trash
#STEMontheCheap at its best! Toys from Trash is an incredible collection of projects made with inexpensive materials. You will have to consider the minds-on ways you will use these projects to engage students but most ...
Toys From Trash YouTube Channel
Our core belief is that children learn by doing - by touching, feeling, cutting, sticking -- pulling things apart, putting things together. We believe that this hands-on science helps them relate to curriculum and get ...
Treasures for Teachers of Tucson
Our resource center has a wide variety of unique and useful materials you might spend days or weeks trying to find. Whether it’s plastic bottle caps and fabric scraps or golf balls and office supplies, ...
Wheels and So Much More from Kelvin Educational
A great STEM supply company. We used the Front Dragster Wheels (Stock #990168) for our balloon powered cars. These are great because bamboo skewers found at Walmart fit right into them ...
Wobble Walkers
Folk toy turned engineering and STEAM project! Start with noticing and wondering using the first 12 seconds of the video below and then let students explore this pHun phenomenon. Templates for small, medium (original scale), ...