Celebrate National Engineers Week (2/19-25)

Check out these STEM resources from PBS- just in time to celebrate engineers! There are a variety of grade levels and options.

PBS and Engineering

PBS recently shared some Engineering activities - who can argue with roller coasters, smores, and pushing plushies on the ice!  These three activities can be found here.

NASA and Insects

                                    Image from NASA

Looking for a design lesson for your students?  NASA has shared a complete lesson to encourage your students to create a robotic insect.  It is geared to grades 3-5 but I think you could modify it for other grade levels.

Engineering Games

Here’s a site with a variety of engineering related games.  Engineering Games is designed for games 3-12.  The categories are not limited to engineering but also include logic, robots, and electricity.

For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.

Learn Engineering

Learn Engineering is a site for 8 to 12 graders that looks to explain the different aspects of engineering. It contains a variety of videos to help students to either explore on their own or as a group.  For the complete post from TeachersFirst, please click here.