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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Traffic Lights

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students learn about traffic lights and their importance in maintaining public safety and order. Using a Parallax Basic Stamp 2 microcontroller, students work in teams on the engineering challenge to build a traffic light with a specific...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: The Portable Fluid Power Demonstrator (Pfpd)

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Working as teams, students learn the basics of fluid power design using the PFPD as their investigative platform. Students will investigate the similarities and differences between using pneumatic and hydraulic power in the PFPD. While...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Keep It Hot!

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Student teams design insulated beverage bottles in this challenge, and test them to determine which materials work best at insulating hot water to keep it warm for as long as possible.
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TryEngineering

Try Engineering: Making Sense of Sensors

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Lesson explore sensors focusing on ones that measure humidity. Students work in teams to design, build, test, and evaluate a hygrometer which was made out of everyday materials to measure humidity levels.
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Other

Uss Constitution Museum: Design a Figurehead

For Students 5th - 8th
This USS Constitution Museum resource is a lesson plan that calls for students to work together in teams to create a new figurehead for the USS Constitution that was destroyed while on patrol.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Explore Career Opportunities in Accounting

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will work on a team to research a variety of newly related accounting careers, including accounting trends in the global market. Then, they will collaborate as a team to create and perform a PowerPoint presentation on their...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: I Would Like to Be a Part of the Group!

For Teachers 4th Standards
Fourth graders will work in teams to discover how to read and write fractions that name a part of a group. The instructional activity will use a fraction pad so students can see how a number names a part of a whole or a part of a group....
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Other

The Josef & Anni Albers Foundation

For Students 9th - 10th
A beautiful memoir of the lives and work of husband-wife artist team Josef and Anni Albers. Each artist has a biography and an extensive gallery.
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Childnet

Childnet: Online Safety: Step Up, Speak Up!

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a practical campaign toolkit to address the issue of online sexual harassment amongst young people aged 13-17 years. Step Up, Speak Up! includes a range of resources for young people and the professionals who work with...
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EL Education

El Education: Do the Green Thing

For Teachers 6th - 8th
7th and 8th grade students at Capital City Public Charter School created this guide to energy efficiency as the capstone project to a seven-month expedition on Green Building. During this expedition students worked under the guidance of...