Maker Projects: Bridges Into Design Thinking
The purpose of this ETP is to provide physics teachers a bite-sized approach to begin implementing design thinking into their scope and sequence.
Catapults -Conducting Fair Tests to Guide the Engineering Design Process
The main objective of the lesson is to provide 4th grade students with an opportunity to experience the engineering design process.
MakerEd Integration For any Subject
This is an example lesson, plus supporting coaches’ documentation, for an integrated maker ed, PBL lesson. It should be seen as a “cooking” technique into which an educator may insert their own curricular ingredients and seasonings.
Collaborative Design, Build & Deliver
The days of cookie cutter jobs and cookie cutter workers are rapidly ending. Automation and artificial intelligence will replace many jobs that exist today.
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Fostering 21st Century Skills - Engineering Design Process/ STEM Challenge
During my fellowship at Lockheed Martin, I learned about critical communication skills and the engineering and design process in the creation of satellites. The goal of this ETP is to introduce and practice the engineering design process through a hands on STEM challenge.
N00b's Guide to Ooptics
In this lesson students will apply knowledge of reflection, Snell’s law, transmission, and Brewster’s angle to create a “Getting Started” guide for optics equipment operation in pursuit to verify the index of refraction of a sample.
Let's Break Stuff
In my fellowship I am helping develop a fractography program. The program will be used to assist failure analysts determine the mode of failure by automatically identifying and analyzing the features present on a fracture surface.
Lasers and Mirrors
The objective of this lesson is for the students to utilize content they have learned in my physics class to complete an engineering challenge. Students must angle mirrors appropriately in order to direct a laser beam onto a target.
Bioengineering Design Challenge: Clearing a blocked artery
Following the steps of the design thinking process and acting as bioengineers, students will use everyday materials to design and develop devices and/or approaches to unclog model blood vessels.