Gain background information for a Rube Goldberg style engineering design challenge.

This Engineering Design Process Challenge asks students to design an Egg Drop to simulate a Mars landing. Criteria include safe landing, closeness to drop zone, and hang time.

Use the Engineering Design Process to design an endemic bird beak model.

Use Engineering Design Process to design an ergonomic video game controller.

This in-depth lesson includes everything a teacher needs to facilitate an engineering challenge for students to design a hovercraft with household items.

Use the engineering design process to create a game with Makey Makey and Scratch.

This instructional resource guides students through using the engineering design process to design a path for an Ozobot to travel. Specifications and criteria are provided to help challenge the students.

This instructional resource provides an overview for a Ping-Pong Bowling activity. Students are asked to design a ball thruster for a ping pong bowling game that will fit a variety of provided specifications.

Students are challenged to create a tour of a planet. Skills include creating a map of the tour, writing a script, and coding an Ozobot to take the guests on a “virtual tour”.

This in-depth lesson collection includes everything a teacher needs to facilitate a multidisciplinary solar car unit. Students will investigate the scientific and mathematical principles required to build a solar powered vehicle.

Design a boat that can hold the most pennies for at least 10 seconds before sinking.

This lesson includes a three day plan for a water cycle activity that uses the engineering design process and explores the driving question: To what extent can precipitation be effectively diverted (collected and used)?

Y2 EDP Phase II Session #3: Reviewing the expectations (checklists and reflective questions) for the integrated unit plan focused on engineering design challenges.

Y2 EDP Phase II Session #1: Paradigm shifts with NGSS and 3-dimensional learning/teaching, and integrated approaches impacting planning, teaching, and assessment.

Who can build the fastest car no longer than 8.5” and no wider than 5.5” to compete in the gravity racer challenge?

The Three Little Pigs Engineering Design Challenge asks grade 3 students to design and build a house that can withstand a wolf trying to blow it down.

When a hurricane occurs, many buildings are not structurally sound and get destroyed. Students will design and build a 14 inch structure that is at least 8 inches off the ground that can withstand a simulated hurricane.

Students will be working on four components related to natural disasters through four separate lessons (wind, high wind, earthquakes, and hurricanes) that involve them learning about the natural process of what the earth and humans go through naturally.

When high winds occur, many buildings that are not structurally sound get destroyed. Students will be design engineers, having to design and build a structure for the three little pigs. They will then test the strength of the house they created.

When an earthquake occurs, many buildings are not structurally sound and get destroyed. Students will be design engineers, having to design and build a structure and then test the strength of their tower that can best withstand a simulated earthquake force.

When an earthquake occurs, many buildings are not structurally sound and get destroyed. Students will be design engineers, having to design and build a structure and then test the strength of their tower that can best withstand a simulated earthquake force.

When high winds occur, many buildings that are not structurally sound get destroyed. Students will be design engineers, having to design and build a structure for the three little pigs. They will then test the strength of the house they created.

This unit asks students “How can we use the engineering process to protect Native bird species from extinction?”

This unit asks students “How can we use the engineering process to protect Native bird species from extinction?”

Engineering Design Process Art activities to get 2nd through 6th grade students started thinking and drawing like engineers!

How can we use our knowledge of how different filter materials work, our creativity, and EDP to design and improve a water filter that cleans contaminated mystery water?

Who can build the fastest car no longer than 8.5” and no wider than 5.5” to compete in the gravity racer challenge?

Y2 EDP Phase II Session #2: Shift your thinking with project-based learning and applying the Engineering Design Process (EDP) to create meaningful, real-world experiences for students at multiple grade levels.

EDP Phase II Session #3: February 9, 2019 (Year 1)

Infographic connecting expected student performances and teacher guidance with scientific investigations that utilize the engineering design process.

STEM-EDP Unit plan template following the three stages of Understanding by Design (UBD) deconstructing the three dimensions of the NGSS and focused on a real-world engineering design challenge.

Preliminary Understanding by Design unit planning template connecting the summative performance task based on an engineering design challenge with performance standards, transferrable skills, and real-world roles, audience, and products.

A design challenge activity to design and build a roof that will not leak when exposed to simulated rain. The phenomena students explore is how the water cycle impacts man-made structures in natural environments.

This activity is a follow-up to the Roof Design Challenge Activity 1. Students continue to use the Engineering Design Process (EDP) to design and build a roof including a solar water heater panel that will not leak when exposed to simulated rain.

An Engineering Design activity based on constructing and testing folded airplanes made from combined common household materials to model composite materials. A high-level adaptation of the plain paper airplane.

An engineering design activity that introduces the Aerodynamic concepts (lift, drag, and gravity) for students to apply in the design and creation of a whirligig to maximize the time of descent.

EDP Activity to learn about Solar Ovens where students design, create and improve a solar oven and do a presentation about their solar oven.

An engaging and grade-level appropriate engineering notebook that is centered on stories to help 2nd graders focus on problems/challenges in the literature and designing challenges using the EDP. Also included is the Notebook and STEM Plan.

An EDP Activity to learn about bees, pollination, and students design a Hand Pollinator.

EDP Activity to learn about Hydroponics where students design, build, and improve on a hydroponics system to grow food.

EDP Activity to learn about plant growth, design and build an aquaponic, hydroponic, living wall system to scale.

Roller Coaster EDP Activity

EDP Activity to Design and Create a Pop-Up-Card