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TeachEngineering Collection Table of Contents

Color Key: Subject Area, Curricular Unit, Lesson, Activity

•  Algebra
  •  Energy of Motion
    •  Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
      • Swinging Pendulum
    •  Work and Power: Waterwheel
      • Power, Work and the Waterwheel
    •  Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
      • Bouncing Balls
      • Bouncing Balls (for High School)
      • Swinging Pendulum (for High School)
    •  What a Drag
      • Sliders
      • Sliders (for High School)
    •  Puttin' It All Together
      • Ramp and Review
      • Ramp and Review (for High Scool)
  •  Electrons on the Move
    •    Completing the Circuit
    •    Two-Cell Battery
  •  Many Paths
    •    Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
  •  Swinging on a String
    •    Cosmic Rhythm
    •    Swing in Time
  •  Not So Lost in Space
    •    A Roundabout Way to Mars
    •    Satellite Tracker
  •    Air Pressure
  •    Bulbs & Batteries in a Row
  •    Catapults!
  •    Close Enough?
  •    Don't Crack Humpty
  •    Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
  •    Forces and Graphing
  •    Heavy Helicopters
  •    I Can't Take the Pressure!
  •    Physics Tug of War
  •    Solar Water Heater
  •    Will It Conduct?
  •    Windy Tunnel
  •    You're a Pushover!
•  Biology
  •  Biodomes
    •  Environments and Ecosystems
      • Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
    •  A Mini World
      • Biodomes Engineering Design Project: Lessons 2-6
    •  Go with the Energy Flow
      • Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
    •  Planting Thoughts
      • Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
    •  Animals and Engineering
      • Biomimicry: Natural Designs
    •    Cleaning Up with Decomposers
  •  Engineering and the Human Body
    •    Spaced Out
    •  Move Your Muscles!
      • Muscles, Muscles Everywhere
      • Walk, Run, Jump!
    •  Our Amazing Skeleton
      • Fascinating Friction!
    •  Digestive System
      • Lunch in Outer Space!
    •  The Heart of the Matter
      • Blood Cell Basics
      • Do You Have the Strength?
      • The Beat Goes On
    •  Nerve Racking
      • 20/20 Vision
      • Sound Line
    •  Unlocking the Endocrine System
      • Endocrine Excitement!
    •  Just Passing Through
      • Kidney Filtering
    •  Out of Breath
      • Just Breathe
    •  Fighting Back!
      • Hot or Not
  •  Dirty Decomposers
    •    How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?
  •  Fortified Breakfast
    •    Cereal Magnets
  •  What Will Biodegrade?
    •    Bury Your Trash!
  •  The Strongest Pump of All
    •    Electrocardiograph Building
  •  Can You Taste It?
    •    A Tasty Experiment
  •  Do Plants Eat?
    •    Bubbling Plants
  •  Mice Rule! (Or Not)
    •    The Benefits of Biodiversity
  •  Viral Hijackers
    •    Tracking a Virus
•  Chemistry
  •  Mixtures and Solutions
    •  The Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter
      • Gumdrop Atoms
    •  Understanding Elements
      • Engineering and the Periodic Table
    •  Mix It Up
      • Messin' with Mixtures
  •  Food Packaging
    •    Package those Foods!
  •  What's Air Got to Do with It?
    •    A Recipe for Air
    •    Air - Is It Really There?
    •    Environmental History Timeline
    •    What Color is Your Air Today?
  •  I Don't Believe My Eyes!
    •    Tears in Rain
    •    What's Hiding in the Air?
  •  Chemical Wonders
    •    Solid, Liquid or Gas?
  •  Not So Neutral Views
    •    Acid (and Base) Rainbows
    •    Acid Rain Effects
    •    Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
  •  The No Zone of Ozone
    •    Battling for Oxygen
    •    Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
  •  I've Gotta Get Some Air
    •    Smoke and Mirrors
    •    The Search for Secret Agents
•  Data Analysis and Probability
  •  All Caught Up: Bycatching and Design
    •  Caught in the Net
      • All Caught Up
    •  Sound for Sight
      • Can You Hear it?
      • Let Your Ears do the Walking
  •  Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
    •  What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?
      • Yeast Cells Respire, Too (But Not Like Me and You)
    •  Population Growth in Yeasts
      • How To Make Yeast Cells Thrive
  •  What's Dominant?
    •    Heredity Mix 'n Match
  •    A Case of Innovation
  •    Capturing the Sun's Warmth
  •    Design Weather Instruments using LEGO Sensors
  •    Falling Water
  •    Solid Rock to Building Block
  •    Waterwheel Work
  •    You're in Hot Water
•  Earth and Space
  •  Air Pollution
    •  What's Air Got to Do with It?
      • A Recipe for Air
      • Air - Is It Really There?
      • Environmental History Timeline
      • What Color is Your Air Today?
    •  You've Got to See It to Believe It!
      • For Your Eyes Only
      • Green Marketing
    •  I Don't Believe My Eyes!
      • Tears in Rain
      • What's Hiding in the Air?
    •  Weather Watchers
      • Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
      • Good News - We're on the Rise!
      • I Can't Take the Pressure!
      • Take Their Word for It!
      • Turning the Air Upside Down
    •  On the Move
      • Dangerous Air
      • How Predictable!
      • Moving without Wheels
    •  Not So Neutral Views
      • Acid (and Base) Rainbows
      • Acid Rain Effects
      • Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
    •  Let's Heat Things Up!
      • Hot Stuff!
      • It's Really Heating Up in Here!
      • Pollution Politics
    •  The No Zone of Ozone
      • Battling for Oxygen
      • Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
    •  I've Gotta Get Some Air
      • Smoke and Mirrors
      • The Search for Secret Agents
    •  Pollution Solutions
      • A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
      • Cleaning Air with Balloons
      • Let's Bag It
      • Washing Air
      • What's a Kid to Do?
  •  Asteroid Impact
    •  What's the Problem
      • What's the Problem?
    •  How Big?
      • How Big?
    •  Scaling the Map
      • Scaling the Map
    •  Possible Locations
      • Possible Locations
    •  Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
      • Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
    •  Ranking the Rocks
      • Ranking the Rocks
    •  Drum Roll Please
      • Drum Roll Please
    •  Testing the Caverns (Optional)
      • Testing the Caverns - Optional
  •  Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
    •  What's Hot and What's Not?
      • Hot Cans and Cold Cans
  •  Engineering for the Earth
    •  Earth Rocks!
      • Engineering for the 3 Little Pigs
    •  Fresh or Salty?
      • Break the Tension
      • Can You Catch the Water?
      • One World Ocean
      • Snow vs. Water
    •  What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic Regions
      • What Happened to the Water? Designing Ways to Get and Clean Water
    •  Harnessing Wind
      • Wild Wind
      • Wind Energy
    •  The Earth is a Changin'
      • Acid Attack
      • Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!
    •  Sea to Sky
      • Carve that mountain
    •  Harvesting Oil from the Earth
      • A Closer Look at Oil and Energy Consumption
      • What's down there?
    •  Powering the U.S.
      • Powering Smallsburg
  •  Environmental Engineering
    •  Oil Spill
      • Oil Spill Cleanup
    •  How Clean is that Water?
      • Pea Soup Ponds
      • Stream Consciousness
    •  An Underground River
      • How Full is Full?
      • Where Does All the Water Go?
    •  Who's Down the Well?
      • Groundwater Detectives
      • What's down the well?
    •  Landfills: Building Them Better
      • Eek, It leaks!
    •  You Are What You Drink!
      • From Lake to Tap
      • Straining out the Dirt
    •  The Air We Breathe
      • Cleaning the Air
      • I Breathe WHAT??
  •  Lost in the Amazon
    •  The Crash Scene
      • Assessing the Situation
    •  Supplies
      • What to Bring?
    •  The Need for Shelter
      • Built to Last?
      • Home, Sweet Home!
    •  The Growling Stomach
      • Finding Food in the Amazon
    •  Where's the Water?
      • Is it Safe to Drink?
    •  Attack of the Raging River
      • Anchors Away
      • Taking the Boat to Manaus
    •  The Evening News
      • Eye Witness Reporting
  •  Marine Mapping
    •  Habitat Mapping
      • Map that Habitat
    •  Marine animal tracking
      • Map-A-Buddy
  •  Mission to Mars
    •  The Amazing Red Planet
      • An Inflated Impression of Mars
    •  Red Rover Robotics
      • Strong-Arm Tactics
    •  Come On Over Rover
      • Edible Rovers
      • Edible Rovers - High School
    •  Get Me Off This Planet
      • The Great Gravity Escape
    •  Six Minutes of Terror
      • Egg-cellent Landing
    •  Manned Mission to Mars
      • Are We Alone?
  •  Natural Disasters
    •  Naturally Disastrous
      • Bombs Away!
      • Save Our City!
    •  Earthquake Formation
      • Drifting Continents
      • Faulty Movement
      • Scale Model of the Earth
    •  Earthquakes Rock!
      • Earthquake in the Classroom
      • Magnitude of the Richter Scale
      • Mercalli Scale Illustrated
      • Seismology in the Classroom
    •  Volcanic Panic!
      • Ready to Erupt!
    •  Land on the Run
      • Mini-Landslide
    •  Tsunami Attack!
      • Survive That Tsunami!
    •  Water, Water Everywhere
      • Floodplain Modeling
    •  Tornado!
      • A Tornado in My State?
      • Build it Better!
      • Tornado Damage!
      • Windstorm
  •  Plot Your Course - Navigation
    •  Where is Here?
      • Find Your Own Direction
      • Nidy-Gridy
      • Northward Ho!
    •  How to be a Great Navigator!
      • The North (Wall) Star
      • Vector Voyage!
    •  Navigating by the Numbers
      • Stay in Shape
      • Trig River
    •  Getting it Right!
      • Close Enough?
      • Computer Accuracy
      • Sextant Solutions
    •  Topo Map Mania!
      • The Trouble with Topos
      • Where is Your Teacher?
    •  Getting to the Point
      • Classroom Triangles
      • Topo Triangulation
      • Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
    •  By Land, Sea or Air
      • Nautical Navigation
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