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2004 Asian Earthquake and Tsunami Disaster Project
"Overview: This is a problem-based learning (PBL) group jigsaw activity. The scenario is: Students are employees of a unit of the United Nations responsible for coordinating disaster relief after a major disaster (the 2...
Algebra II Módulo 3: Funciones exponenciales y logarítmicas
"Overview: (Nota: Esta es una traducción de un recurso educativo abierto creado por el Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York (NYSED) como parte del proyecto ""EngageNY"" en 2013. Aunque el recurso real fue t...
Philosophy Ethics Syllabus
"Overview: Philosophy Ethics Syllabus PHL 202: Ethics COURSE DESCRIPTION: Explores basic problems in moral and social philosophy along with issues related to human nature, for example: how to define a good life o...
English Language Arts, Grade 11
"The 11th grade learning experience consists of 7 mostly month-long units aligned to the Common Core State Standards, with available course material for teachers and students easily accessible online. Over the course of...
Houston, We Have a Problem!
"Overview: Students apply their mathematics and team building skills to explore the concept of rocketry. They learn about design issues faced by aerospace engineers when trying to launch rocketships or satellites in orde...
Pump It!
"Overview: Pumps are used to get drinking water to our houses every day! And in disaster situations, pumps are essential to keep flood water out. In this hands-on activity, student groups design, build, test and improve...
Keeping Our Roads Smooth
"Overview: Students learn how roadways are designed and constructed, and discuss the advantages and limitations of the current roadway construction process. They look at current practices of roadway monitoring, discuss t...
Polygons and Popsicle Trusses
"Overview: Students learn about the role engineers play in designing and building truss structures. Simulating a real-world civil engineering challenge, student teams are tasked to create strong and unique truss structur...
Water Bottle Rockets
"Overview: What makes rockets fly straight? What makes rockets fly far? Why use water to make the rocket fly? Students are challenged to design and build rockets from two-liter plastic soda bottles that travel as far and...
Considering Trade-Offs and Maximizing Efficiency in a Fast Food Restaurant
"Overview: Students are introduced to the idea of improving efficiency by examining a setting that is familiar to many teenagers fast food restaurants. More specifically, they learn about the concepts of trade-offs, cons...
The Plastic Test
"Overview: After a brief history of plastics, students look more closely as some examples from the abundant types of plastics found in our day-to-day lives. They are introduced to the mechanical properties of plastics, i...
Cutting Through Soil
"Overview: Students pretend they are agricultural engineers during the colonial period and design a miniature plow that cuts through a ""field"" of soil. They are introduced to the engineering design process and learn of...
Samples and Probability
"Samples and Probability Type of Unit: Conceptual Prior Knowledge Students should be able to: Understand the concept of a ratio. Write ratios as percents. Describe data using measures of center. Display and in...
Engineers Love Pizza, Too!
"Overview: In this service-learning engineering project, students follow the steps of the engineering design process to design an assistive eating device for a client. More specifically, they design a prototype device to...
How Do You Make Loops and Switches?
"Overview: Students learn how to program using loops and switches. They see how loops enable us to easily and efficiently tell a computer to keep repeating an operation. They also see that switches permit programs to fol...
Renewable Energy: Solar
"Overview: In this eight-lesson unit, students explore cultural connections with the sun, learn about light and discover how light interacts with other materials through hands-on activities, literacy integration, and eng...
Lightning Lesson: Learn How Astronauts Get By Without Running Water
"Overview: Astronauts cannot just flip on a faucet when they want to wash their hands. Learn about water conservation on the International Space Station. Subject: Applied Science, Engineering, Education, Physical Scienc...
Módulo 2 de grado 5: Operaciones de fracción de número entero y fracción de decimales de múltiples dígitos
"Overview: (Nota: Esta es una traducción de un recurso educativo abierto creado por el Departamento de Educación del Estado de Nueva York (NYSED) como parte del proyecto ""EngageNY"" en 2013. Aunque el recurso real fue t...
Unit 2.2: Change Detection with Kinematic GPS/GNSS
"Overview: Though it may be difficult to perceive, landscapes are constantly changing form and position. High-precision GNSS is one of a handful of techniques capable of quantifying these changes and is a key component o...
Where Did That Quartzite Clast Come From?: A Problem-Based Provenance Study
"Overview: For this project, students read Goetze and Lewis (1994) paper on trace element geochemistry of quartz-rich sandstones. They then select one of six possible stratigraphic units, find relevant literature related...