< Return to Teachers Portal Raise the Roof: Designing Shelters Kindergarten Request Description In this unit, students are challenged to protect a fictional dog from getting too warm in the sunlight. They’ll learn about concepts related to the warming effects of...
< Return to Teachers Portal No Bones About It: Designing Knee Braces Grades 1-5 Request Description In No Bones About It: Designing Knee Braces, students explore how biomedical engineers use their understanding of human body systems to design solutions to address...
< Return to Teachers Portal Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems Grades 1-5 Request Description In Lighten Up: Designing Lighting Systems, students explore the properties and behavior of light and the use of light in engineering. The unit begins with the...
< Return to Teachers Portal Here’s the Scoop: Designing Trash Collectors Kindergarten Request Description In this unit, students will become environmental engineers as they work to save a fictional duck from a polluted pond. They’ll explore animal habitats...
< Return to Teachers Portal Liftoff: Engineering Rockets and Rovers Grades 3-5 Request Description Jacob is at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory learning how to engineer rovers that can be used to explore faraway worlds. Meanwhile, India is learning about the...