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This is a lesson plan that explores principles in civil engineering and architecture, developed to help teachers integrate engineering practices in the classroom. Students work in teams to design and build a small dome frame out of everyday items that can hold a weight on top wit...
https://tryengineering.org/resource/lesson-plan/design-dome/This set of lecture slides provides images, pictures, information, and graphs that guide students through the variables involved in the Drake Equation. Stellar formation, planetary information, ecospheres, the formation of life, the possibility of intelligent life, and the techn...
http://astronomy.nmsu.edu/cwc/Teaching/ASTR305/DrakeEq/This website provides materials for a university-level historical astronomy course. Full lecture notes are provided, along with animations and simulations to illustrate aspects of the course. Links are provided to related supporting material.
The course lecture notes are extensi...
http://galileoandeinstein.physics.virginia.edu/This online lecture and study guide presents evidence of the interest of ancient civilizations in astronomy. It first summarizes the apparent motions of the planets on the sky. Next, the ways early societies made and recorded observations of the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are ...
https://rwoconne.github.io/rwoclass/astr1210/guide05.htmlThis is a lesson plan on surface engineering, developed to help teachers integrate engineering practices in the secondary classroom. Students learn about nanotechnology and its application in developing hydrophobic surfaces. (Hydrophobicity is a physical property, and is defined ...
https://tryengineering.org/resource/lesson-plan/waterproof-roof/
6. Introductory students’ attitudes and approaches to Physics problem solving: Major, achievement level and gender differences [Journal Article]
Students’ attitudes and approaches to problem solving are claimed to be related to their ways they learn physics and to their success in solving physics problems. In this study, the Attitudes and Approaches to Problem Solving (AAPS) survey was used to reveal Turkish introductory ...
https://doi.org/10.3926/jotse.666The Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute has as its mission to explore, understand and explain the origin, nature, prevalence and distribution of life in the universe. The Web site contains the history and makeup of the institute, a science section that deta...
http://www.seti.org/This is a large collection of standards-aligned lessons for Grades 2-12 that allow teachers to integrate engineering principles in the classroom. Lessons follow a module format that includes objectives and learner outcomes, problem sets, student guides, recommended reading, illus...
https://tryengineering.org/explore-resources/lesson-plans/This is a collection of 25+ online games designed to let students think like an engineer and make decisions that apply an understanding of concepts in physics and engineering. Games include varied topics, such as "Solar Car Racing", "Bionic Arm Design", "Design a Parachute", "Gri...
https://tryengineering.org/explore-resources/games/This Wikipedia page provides an overview of tension structures and describes the important architects and engineers who use this form of construction. The page includes the history of tension structures, a discussion of the double curvature minimal surfaces, and an introduction t...
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