Engineering, Design Thinking & Robotics Resources
Engineering & Design Thinking
Discover Engineering provides a variety of STEM/engineering activities and lessons for a variety of ages that can be searched by engineering discipline, age and science topic.
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- Engaging Engineering Design Challenges - Google doc with list of linked activities
E4USA provides an on ramping curriculum to help students learn about engineering as a profession, and to help students develop the mindsets and practices of engineers.
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Engineering - Go For Itwww.egfi-k12.org/about/! Teacher and student resources, lessons, news and newsletter with information about opportunities and events. Developed by the American Society for Engineering Education.
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Engineering is Elementary provides STEM curricula for pre-K to elementary learners, with resources for both teachers and families. Created in partnership with Boston's Museum of Science.
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THE FESTIVAL OF URGENT REINVENTIONS is a free two-day virtual experience. Part conference, part competition – the festival is a combination of talks and workshops by prominent change makers, and actionable briefs tackling the world’s most urgent and systemic issues. (View on YouTube)
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hundrED's Innovation Collections showcases innovative ideas from global contributors.
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MIT Full STEAM Ahead provides Interdisciplinary Engineering curriculum and project resources originally designed for families during remote learning.
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The James Dyson Foundation has developed Engineering Design Challenges for families and schools. Check site for downloadable challenge cards.
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PBS Design Squad offers engineering design challenges, games, and sample projects. Targeted more toward middle school students, but many materials apply to all age levels.
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Novel Engineering is an integrated pedagogical approach to engineering and literacy, in which students solve problems for characters or individuals in novels, short stories, nonfiction stories and/or news articles. Developed by Tufts University's Engineering Education program.
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TeachEngineering is a large database of engineering curricula, lessons, labs and design challenges, searchable by topic, age and lesson length.
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The Tech Interactive from Bowers Institute provides a variety of design challenges and career exploration resources.
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Try Engineering provides lessons, career exploration materials and outreach activities. Sponsored by IEEE.
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WhiteBox Learning is a complete Standards-Based STEM Learning System for Engineering, Science, and Technology Education classrooms, grades 6-12. Completely web-based, students can design, analyze, and simulate their designs, hundreds of times, from a web browser, and compete with other students throughout their district. Fully-Integrated Teacher LMS is included.
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Building Techniques
Blog post from Teachers are Terrific about how to create cardboard attachments.
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Competitions
The Fluid Power Action Challenge is a competition that challenges middle or high school students to solve an engineering problem using fluid power. The students work in teams to design and build a fluid power mechanism and then compete against other teams in a timed competition.
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KidWind Competitions
This year, KidWind is offering virtual competitions for both solar and wind challenges. They also have a simulation challenge (contact Michael Arquin for information about scholarships) and a MacGyver challenge. |
The Biomimicry Institute's Youth Design Challenge is a hands-on, project-based learning experience that provides classroom and informal educators with an engaging framework to introduce bio-inspired design and an interdisciplinary lens on science, engineering, and environmental literacy. It gives middle and high school students a unique STEM experience and empowers them to envision solutions to social and environmental challenges.
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Societies & Organizations
Web-Based Tools
TinkerCad is a free 3D-modeling and design program.
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