TeachEngineering

Designing and building simple machines is essential to engineering!

⚒️ K-12 teachers heading can use free resources like this two-part TeachEngineering activity: Students have fun designing simple machines and learn that they can accomplish tasks in a complicated way — and make work easier!

Create your own Rube Goldberg machine: teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_simp_machines_lesson05_activity1

Students act as structural engineers and learn about forces and load distributions as they follow the steps of the engineering design process!

🌉 Build a Bridge and Get Over It 🌉

With this hands-on TeachEngineering resource — ideal for 4th-6th graders — students experience engineering design, craft prototypes, and test prototype bridges to failure!

Even more so, students gain an understanding of some of the challenges faced by engineers whose designs must protect public safety, like the Golden Gate Bridge that thousands of people depend upon daily 🚗

Find the materials list, worksheets, a video and more online: teachengineering.org/activities/view/ucd_bridge_activity1

One of our most popular resources, the TeachEngineering Design Process Hub helps educators accelerate integrating STEM concepts into the classroom to cultivate students' problem-solving skills.

K-12 STEM Educators: Looking for ways to boost STEM literacy? Check out TeachEngineering's Engineering Design Process Hub!

🧠 This resource emphasizes: open-ended problem solving, encourages students to learn from failure, and teaches them how to create innovative solutions to challenges in any subject by introducing them to the methods engineers use to problem solve:

1. Ask: Identify the problem and constraints.
2. Research: Gather information and explore existing solutions.
3. Imagine: Brainstorm and develop potential solutions.
4. Plan: Select the most promising solution and plan its implementation.
5. Create: Build a prototype or model of the solution.
6. Test and Evaluate: Assess the prototype, gather feedback, and make improvements.
7. Improve: Refine the design based on evaluation results and retest as necessary.

The hub also highlights the importance of iteration, where engineers repeatedly test and refine their solutions to improve them. This process is fundamental to STEM education, helping students develop critical thinking and collaboration skills.

Learn more: teachengineering.org/populartopics/designprocess

As you head , the sky is the limit with free TeachEngineering activities and lessons!

A fun and collaborative STEM activity: Water Bottle Rockets from TeachEngineering!

Students learn about mass, momentum, and the basics of aerodynamics and flight by designing, building, and launching water bottle rockets from two-liter plastic bottles! 🚀

Watch the video, print the activity, and blast off: teachengineering.org/activities/view/ucd_bottlerockets_activity1

We're excited to meet you and share free STEM resources tomorrow, K-12 Educators! 🎊

⏳ Tomorrow: Learn how you can enhance your curriculum with and NCWIT’s newest program, TeachEngineering!

Plus, get free resources and a resource kit — complete with a VR headset! 🎁 And if you're based in Idaho, you will also be entered into a drawing for a $100 Amazon gift card!

Register now: bit.ly/C4C_IdahoAug24

Info: ncwit.org/event/future-ready-pathways-with-teachengineering/

As students head , spread the word about our free, standards-aligned activities and lessons for all ages! 🎒

Join us next week for this free event! It's open to educators across the US.

🔮 Next week: Future-Ready Pathways event with + TeachEngineering!

Register to attend and receive free resources (like an extensive library you can use to enhance and STEM curriculum!), lesson plans, a resource kit and more: bit.ly/C4C_IdahoAug24

Info: ncwit.org/event/future-ready-pathways-with-teachengineering/

✨ Idaho event partners — ISEE STEM- Idaho South and East STEM Ecosystem x STEM INNC - Idaho North & North Central STEM Ecosystem: Attendees in ID are entered into a $100 gift card drawing!

Future-Ready Pathways with TeachEngineering | National Center for Women & Information Technology Register for free resources, lesson plans, and more! K-12 administrators, educators, and school counselors nationwide are invited to attend a free, one-hour ...

There's still time to take part in the final day! See you tomorrow morning! 🚀

Tomorrow: Join free K-12 STEM Professional Development with TeachEngineering!

Couldn’t attend the entire event? No problem! You can still participate: teachengineering.org/pdworkshops

Gain hands-on experience with engineering and design thinking, + leave with lots of resources! 🦾

1️⃣ week until the online + TeachEngineering event: bit.ly/C4C_IdahoAug24

School counselors, CTE teachers, and K-12 STEM educators, receive a free resource kit and learn how to:

👩🏽‍💻 Seamlessly integrate and engineering concepts into your existing curriculum, regardless of your prior experience

🌞 Craft an inclusive learning environment that engages all students

Info: ncwit.org/event/future-ready-pathways-with-teachengineering/

❗ NCWIT K-12 partners broadening participation in computing: Share this free and TeachEngineering online event in your network: bit.ly/C4C_IdahoAug24

School counselors, CTE teachers, and STEM educators will explore an array of valuable resources designed for STEM and instruction and receive a resource kit!

Info: ncwit.org/event/future-ready-pathways-with-teachengineering/

We love this activity!

Paper Airplanes: Building, Testing, & Improving. Heads Up! - Activity Students learn the different airplane parts, including wing, flap, aileron, fuselage, cockpit, propeller, spinner, engine, tail, rudder, elevator. Then they each build one of four different (provided) paper airplane (really, glider) designs with instructions, which they test in three trials, measuri...

This , NCWIT calls all K-12 Alliance members, NCWIT Aspirations in Computing educators, and mentors in the NCWIT Workforce Alliance to celebrate + support women in engineering with Society of Women Engineers - SWE, an NCWIT Affinity Alliance member!

Free TeachEngineering activities, lesson plans, + more for K-12 teachers: teachengineering.org

NCWIT resources to use in higher ed + at work: ncwit.org/resources

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Have you ever used TeachEngineering? Itʻs an awesome STEM resource collection for all grade levels! The content is focused on engineering foundations in math, physics, design thinking, and more, and can be browsed by level, topic, standard, or delivery format, such as activities, lessons, maker challenges, and living labs! Check it out: https://www.teachengineering.org/!

Energizing!

Hey! I'm busy!

Safety first!

"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be. " Oscar Wilde, poet and playwright.

Ice cube cool.

Interesting article for STEM students about who to tell if you are talking to a computer or a person: https://buff.ly/44xhcTt

How can we tell whether we are talking to a computer or a person? - Science Journal for Kids and Teens Researchers studied the rules of thumb people use to tell computer-generated and human-made text apart, and found that people often used rules of thumb that were wrong.

I have potential!

Attend TeachEngineering's Summer PD Workshops. Spots are filling fast! Sign up here: https://buff.ly/3WxoSDa

What to do to get more butterflies in your yard? https://buff.ly/44ylqKk

Want to see butterflies in your backyard? Try doing less yardwork Growing out patches of grass can lure adult butterflies and moths with nectar and offer lawn mower–free havens for toddler caterpillars.

Nye is the GUY!

"There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind." Bill Nye, American mechanical engineer, science communicator, and television presenter

Interesting science for your students: https://buff.ly/3xLmU7P

Here’s how poison dart frogs safely hoard toxins in their skin A protein found in frog bodies may help the amphibians collect and transport toxins from their food to their skin for chemical defense.

Tomorrow is May the Fourth!

"Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda, legendary Jedi Master

What temperature is a Taun-Taun?

Luke-warm!

Coding Meme for Star Wars Fans: Don't forget!