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Curriculum: Wind Lessons from AWEA
Curriculum for teaching about wind energy kindergarten - 12th grade. Teacher and student guides with background information and hands-on activities to explore motion, weather, the history of wind, and...
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Lesson: Pop Fly!
In this lesson, students in grades 3 - 12 will explore the engineering design process by building a device that can launch a ping-pong ball high enough for them to catch it.
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Beat the Motion Sensor
In this activity, students in grades 7 to 9 explore material properties as they relate to motion detection, and use that knowledge to make design decisions about what types of motion detectors to use...
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Naked Egg Drop
Paris of students in grades 3 to 6 experience the engineering design process by building and modifying devices to catch and protect a "naked" egg as it is dropped from increasing heights. The activity...
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Disaster Engineering
Hurricanes, earthquakes, and other destructive events offer timely "teachable moments" about the role of engineers in improving weather forecasts and reducing the toll from natural disasters. eGFI...
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Flying T-Shirt Challenge
Students follow the engineering design process to design and build a usable device to propel school T-shirts up into the stands during home sporting events while keeping costs under budget.
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Super Bowl Engineering
From 360-degree cameras to "green" stadiums, the Super Bowl offers plenty of engineering to cheer about. This eGFI roster of hands-on design activities, videos, and other resources will help your...
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Paper Roller Coasters
Teams of high school students learn about energy and energy transformation, then use their knowledge to design and build a paper model of the most fun and exciting roller coaster they can imagine.
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Lesson: Rubber Band Racers
In this activity, teams of students 8 - 18 learn about engineering design by constructing rubber-band-powered cars from everyday materials that can travel in a straight line for a distance of at least...
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