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Color Key: Subject Area, Curricular Unit, Lesson, Activity

•  Algebra
  •  Energy of Motion
    •  Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
      • Bouncing Balls
      • Bouncing Balls (for High School)
      • Swinging Pendulum (for High School)
    •  Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
      • Swinging Pendulum
    •  Puttin' It All Together
      • Ramp and Review
      • Ramp and Review (for High Scool)
    •  What a Drag
      • Sliders
      • Sliders (for High School)
    •  Work and Power: Waterwheel
      • Power, Work and the Waterwheel
  •  Electrons on the Move
    •    Completing the Circuit
    •    Two-Cell Battery
  •  Many Paths
    •    Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
  •  Not So Lost in Space
    •    A Roundabout Way to Mars
    •    Satellite Tracker
  •  Swinging on a String
    •    Cosmic Rhythm
    •    Swing in Time
  •    Air Pressure
  •    Bulbs & Batteries in a Row
  •    Catapults!
  •    Close Enough?
  •    Don't Crack Humpty
  •    Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
  •    Forces and Graphing
  •    Heavy Helicopters
  •    I Can't Take the Pressure!
  •    Physics Tug of War
  •    Will It Conduct?
  •    Windy Tunnel
  •    You're a Pushover!
•  Biology
  •  Biodomes
    •  Animals and Engineering
      • Biodomes Engineering Design Project: Lessons 2-6
      • Biomimicry: Natural Designs
    •    Cleaning Up with Decomposers
    •  Environments and Ecosystems
      • Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
    •  Go with the Energy Flow
      • Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
    •    A Mini World
    •  Planting Thoughts
      • Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
  •  Engineering and the Human Body
    •  Digestive System
      • Lunch in Outer Space!
    •  Fighting Back!
      • Hot or Not
    •  The Heart of the Matter
      • The Beat Goes On
      • Blood Cell Basics
      • Do You Have the Strength?
    •  Just Passing Through
      • Kidney Filtering
    •  Move Your Muscles!
      • Muscles, Muscles Everywhere
      • Walk, Run, Jump!
    •  Nerve Racking
      • 20/20 Vision
      • Sound Line
    •  Our Amazing Skeleton
      • Fascinating Friction!
    •  Out of Breath
      • Just Breathe
    •    Spaced Out
    •  Unlocking the Endocrine System
      • Endocrine Excitement!
  •  Can You Taste It?
    •    A Tasty Experiment
  •  Dirty Decomposers
    •    How Fast Can a Carrot Rot?
  •  Do Plants Eat?
    •    Bubbling Plants
  •  Fortified Breakfast
    •    Cereal Magnets
  •  Mice Rule! (Or Not)
    •    The Benefits of Biodiversity
  •  Strongest Pump of All
    •    Electrocardiograph Building
  •  Viral Hijackers
    •    Tracking a Virus
  •  What Will Biodegrade?
    •    Bury Your Trash!
•  Chemistry
  •  Mixtures and Solutions
    •  The Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter
      • Gumdrop Atoms
    •  Mix It Up
      • Messin' with Mixtures
    •  Understanding Elements
      • Engineering and the Periodic Table
  •  Chemical Wonders
    •    Solid, Liquid or Gas?
  •  Food Packaging
    •    Package those Foods!
  •  I Don't Believe My Eyes!
    •    Tears in Rain
    •    What's Hiding in the Air?
  •  I've Gotta Get Some Air
    •    The Search for Secret Agents
    •    Smoke and Mirrors
  •  No Zone of Ozone
    •    Battling for Oxygen
    •    Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
  •  Not So Neutral Views
    •    Acid (and Base) Rainbows
    •    Acid Rain Effects
    •    Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
  •  What's Air Got to Do with It?
    •    Air - Is It Really There?
    •    Environmental History Timeline
    •    A Recipe for Air
    •    What Color is Your Air Today?
•  Data Analysis and Probability
  •  All Caught Up: Bycatching and Design
    •  Caught in the Net
      • All Caught Up
    •  Sound for Sight
      • Can You Hear it?
      • Let Your Ears do the Walking
  •  Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
    •  Population Growth in Yeasts
      • How To Make Yeast Cells Thrive
      • Yeast Cells Respire, Too (But Not Like Me and You)
    •    What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?
  •  What's Dominant?
    •    Heredity Mix 'n Match
  •    Capturing the Sun's Warmth
  •    A Case of Innovation
  •    Design Weather Instruments using LEGO Sensors
  •    Falling Water
  •    Solid Rock to Building Block
  •    Waterwheel Work
  •    You're in Hot Water
•  Earth and Space
  •  Air Pollution
    •  I Don't Believe My Eyes!
      • Tears in Rain
      • What's Hiding in the Air?
    •  I've Gotta Get Some Air
      • The Search for Secret Agents
      • Smoke and Mirrors
    •  Let's Heat Things Up!
      • Hot Stuff!
      • It's Really Heating Up in Here!
      • Pollution Politics
    •  The No Zone of Ozone
      • Battling for Oxygen
      • Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
    •  Not So Neutral Views
      • Acid (and Base) Rainbows
      • Acid Rain Effects
      • Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
    •  On the Move
      • Air - Is It Really There?
      • Dangerous Air
      • How Predictable!
      • Moving without Wheels
    •  Pollution Solutions
      • Cleaning Air with Balloons
      • Let's Bag It
      • A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
      • Washing Air
      • What's a Kid to Do?
    •  Weather Watchers
      • Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
      • Good News - We're on the Rise!
      • I Can't Take the Pressure!
      • Take Their Word for It!
      • Turning the Air Upside Down
      • What Color is Your Air Today?
    •  What's Air Got to Do with It?
      • Environmental History Timeline
      • A Recipe for Air
    •  You've Got to See It to Believe It!
      • For Your Eyes Only
      • Green Marketing
  •  Asteroid Impact
    •  Drum Roll Please
      • Drum Roll Please
    •  How Big?
      • How Big?
    •  Possible Locations
      • Possible Locations
    •  Ranking the Rocks
      • Ranking the Rocks
    •  Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
      • Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
    •  Scaling the Map
      • Scaling the Map
    •  Testing the Caverns (Optional)
      • Testing the Caverns - Optional
    •  What's the Problem
      • What's the Problem?
  •  Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
    •  What's Hot and What's Not?
      • Hot Cans and Cold Cans
  •  Engineering for the Earth
    •  The Earth is a Changin'
      • Acid Attack
      • Glaciers, Water and Wind, Oh My!
    •  Earth Rocks!
      • Engineering for the 3 Little Pigs
    •  Fresh or Salty?
      • Break the Tension
      • Can You Catch the Water?
      • One World Ocean
      • Snow vs. Water
    •  Harnessing Wind
      • Wild Wind
      • Wind Energy
    •  Harvesting Oil from the Earth
      • A Closer Look at Oil and Energy Consumption
      • What's down there?
    •  Powering the U.S.
      • Powering Smallsburg
    •  Sea to Sky
      • Carve that mountain
    •  What to Wear? What to Drink? Weather Patterns and Climatic Regions
      • What Happened to the Water? Designing Ways to Get and Clean Water
  •  Environmental Engineering
    •  The Air We Breathe
      • Cleaning the Air
      • I Breathe WHAT??
    •  How Clean is that Water?
      • Pea Soup Ponds
      • Stream Consciousness
    •  Landfills: Building Them Better
      • Eek, It leaks!
    •  Oil Spill
      • Oil Spill Cleanup
    •  An Underground River
      • How Full is Full?
      • Where Does All the Water Go?
    •  Who's Down the Well?
      • Groundwater Detectives
      • What's down the well?
    •  You Are What You Drink!
      • From Lake to Tap
      • Straining out the Dirt
  •  Lost in the Amazon
    •  Attack of the Raging River
      • Anchors Away
      • Taking the Boat to Manaus
    •  The Crash Scene
      • Assessing the Situation
    •  The Evening News
      • Eye Witness Reporting
    •  The Growling Stomach
      • Finding Food in the Amazon
    •  The Need for Shelter
      • Built to Last?
      • Home, Sweet Home!
    •  Supplies
      • What to Bring?
    •  Where's the Water?
      • Is it Safe to Drink?
  •  Marine Mapping
    •  Habitat Mapping
      • Map that Habitat
    •  Marine animal tracking
      • Map-A-Buddy
  •  Mission to Mars
    •  The Amazing Red Planet
      • An Inflated Impression of Mars
    •  Come On Over Rover
      • Edible Rovers
      • Edible Rovers - High School
    •  Get Me Off This Planet
      • The Great Gravity Escape
    •  Manned Mission to Mars
      • Are We Alone?
    •  Red Rover Robotics
      • Strong-Arm Tactics
    •  Six Minutes of Terror
      • Egg-cellent Landing
  •  Natural Disasters
    •  Earthquake Formation
      • Drifting Continents
      • Faulty Movement
      • Scale Model of the Earth
    •  Earthquakes Rock!
      • Earthquake in the Classroom
      • Magnitude of the Richter Scale
      • Mercalli Scale Illustrated
      • Seismology in the Classroom
    •  Land on the Run
      • Mini-Landslide
    •  Naturally Disastrous
      • Bombs Away!
      • Save Our City!
    •  Tornado!
      • Build it Better!
      • Tornado Damage!
      • A Tornado in My State?
      • Windstorm
    •  Tsunami Attack!
      • Survive That Tsunami!
    •  Volcanic Panic!
      • Ready to Erupt!
    •  Water, Water Everywhere
      • Floodplain Modeling
  •  Plot Your Course - Navigation
    •  By Land, Sea or Air
      • Nautical Navigation
    •  Getting it Right!
      • Close Enough?
      • Computer Accuracy
      • Sextant Solutions
    •  Getting to the Point
      • Classroom Triangles
      • Topo Triangulation
      • Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
    •  GPS on the Move
      • GPS Art
      • GPS Receiver Basics
      • GPS Scavenger Hunt
    •  How to be a Great Navigator!
      • The North (Wall) Star
      • Vector Voyage!
    •  Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
      • It's About Time
      • State Your Position
    •  Navigating by the Numbers
      • Stay in Shape
      • Trig River
    •  Not So Lost in Space
      • A Roundabout Way to Mars
      • Satellite Tracker
    •  Topo Map Mania!
      • The Trouble with Topos
      • Where is Your Teacher?
    •  Where is Here?
      • Find Your Own Direction
      • Nidy-Gridy
      • Northward Ho!
  •  Rockets
    •  Blast Off
      • Aqua-Thrusters!
      • Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved!
      • Pop Rockets
    •  Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites
      • I'm Not in Range
    •  Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
      • Rockets on a Shoestring Budget
    •  Newton Gets Me Moving
      • Newton Rocket Car
    •  Rocket Me into Space
      • Strawkets and Control
      • Strawkets and Thrust
      • Strawkets and Weight
    •  Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
      • Find It!
  •  Solar System!
    •  Beyond the Milky Way
      • Building a Fancy Spectrograph
    •  Blazing Gas
      • Cooking with the Sun
      • Heat It Up!
    •  Destination Outer Space
      • Rocket Power
    •  Life in Space: The International Space Station
      • Lunch in Outer Space!
      • Muscles, Muscles Everywhere
    •    Mars and Jupiter
    •  Mercury and Venus
      • Spacecraft Design: Beat the Heat
    •  Moon Walk
      • Lunar Lollipops
    •    Our Big Blue Marble
    •  The Outer Planets
      • Slingshot to the Outer Planets
  •  Spectroscopy
    •    Graphing the Rainbow
    •    Patterns and Fingerprints
    •    A Spectral Mystery
    •    Using a Fancy Spectrograph
    •    Using Spectral Data to Explore Saturn and Titan
  •  Weather and Atmosphere
    •  Air Under Pressure
      • Building a Barometer
    •  Stormy Skies
      • Weather Alert
    •  Weather Basics
      • Dress for Success
    •  Weather Forecasting
      • Backyard Weather Station
  •  Fantastic Fossils
    •    Fossil Fondue
  •  Let the Sun Shine!
    •    Capturing the Sun's Warmth
    •    Power to the People
    •    You're in Hot Water
  •    Lunar Learning
  •  River Ran Through It
    •    A Case of Innovation
    •    Falling Water
    •    Waterwheel Work
  •  Rock Solid
    •    Soapy Stress
  •    Build an Earthquake City
  •    Construct And Test Roofs for Different Climates
  •    Design a Recycling Game!
  •    Do Different Colors Absorb Heat Better?
  •    A House is a House for Me
  •    Portable Sundial
  •    Which Roof is Tops?
•  Geometry
  •  Building Towards the Future
    •  The Next Dimension
      • A Place in Space
    •  Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!
      • Balsa Towers
      • Newspaper Tower
  •  Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
    •  Engineering: Simple Machines
      • Choosing a Pyramid Site
      • Stack It Up!
    •  Let's Move It!
      • Wheeling It In!
    •  Powerful Pulleys
      • Pulley'ing Your Own Weight
    •  Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
      • Solid Rock to Building Block
    •  Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
      • Modern Day Pyramids
    •  Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
      • Watch It Slide!
  •  Plot Your Course - Navigation
    •  By Land, Sea or Air
      • Nautical Navigation
    •  Getting it Right!
      • Close Enough?
      • Computer Accuracy
      • Sextant Solutions
    •  Getting to the Point
      • Classroom Triangles
      • Topo Triangulation
      • Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
    •  GPS on the Move
      • GPS Art
      • GPS Receiver Basics
      • GPS Scavenger Hunt
    •  How to be a Great Navigator!
      • The North (Wall) Star
      • Vector Voyage!
    •  Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
      • It's About Time
      • State Your Position
    •  Navigating by the Numbers
      • Stay in Shape
      • Trig River
    •  Not So Lost in Space
      • A Roundabout Way to Mars
      • Satellite Tracker
    •  Topo Map Mania!
      • The Trouble with Topos
      • Where is Your Teacher?
    •  Where is Here?
      • Find Your Own Direction
      • Nidy-Gridy
      • Northward Ho!
  •  Boxed In and Wrapped Up
    •    The Boxes Go Mobile
    •    New Boxes From Old
  •  Olympic Engineering
    •    Shapes of Strength
  •    Build Your Own Mobile
  •    Tower O' Power
•  Life Science
  •  All Caught Up: Bycatching and Design
    •  Caught in the Net
      • All Caught Up
    •  Sound for Sight
      • Can You Hear it?
      • Let Your Ears do the Walking
  •  Biodomes
    •  Animals and Engineering
      • Biodomes Engineering Design Project: Lessons 2-6
      • Biomimicry: Natural Designs
    •    Cleaning Up with Decomposers
    •  Environments and Ecosystems
      • Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
    •  Go with the Energy Flow
      • Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
    •    A Mini World
    •  Planting Thoughts
      • Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
  •  Cellular Respiration and Population Growth
    •  Population Growth in Yeasts
      • How To Make Yeast Cells Thrive
      • Yeast Cells Respire, Too (But Not Like Me and You)
    •    What Do Bread and Beer Have in Common?
  •  Can You Taste It?
    •    A Tasty Experiment
  •  Do Plants Eat?
    •    Bubbling Plants
  •  Flow Rates of Faucets and Rivers
    •    Faucet Flow Rate
    •    River Flow Rate
  •  How Tall Are We?
    •    Growing and Graphing
  •  Life Cycles
    •     Product Development and the Environment
  •  Mice Rule! (Or Not)
    •    The Benefits of Biodiversity
  •  Viral Hijackers
    •    Tracking a Virus
  •  What Will Biodegrade?
    •    Bury Your Trash!
  •  What's Dominant?
    •    Heredity Mix 'n Match
  •  Who Needs What?
    •    Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones
  •    An Arm and A Leg
  •    Build Your Own Insect Trap
  •    Charlotte's Web
•  Measurement
  •  Floaters and Sinkers
    •  Floaters and Sinkers
      • Determining Densities
    •  What Floats Your Boat?
      • Buoyant Boats
      • Clay Boats
  •  Marine Mapping
    •  Habitat Mapping
      • Map that Habitat
    •  Marine animal tracking
      • Map-A-Buddy
  •  Plot Your Course - Navigation
    •  By Land, Sea or Air
      • Nautical Navigation
    •  Getting it Right!
      • Close Enough?
      • Computer Accuracy
      • Sextant Solutions
    •  Getting to the Point
      • Classroom Triangles
      • Topo Triangulation
      • Topos, Compasses, and Triangles, Oh My!
    •  GPS on the Move
      • GPS Art
      • GPS Receiver Basics
      • GPS Scavenger Hunt
    •  How to be a Great Navigator!
      • The North (Wall) Star
      • Vector Voyage!
    •  Navigating at the Speed of Satellites
      • It's About Time
      • State Your Position
    •  Navigating by the Numbers
      • Stay in Shape
      • Trig River
    •  Not So Lost in Space
      • A Roundabout Way to Mars
      • Satellite Tracker
    •  Topo Map Mania!
      • The Trouble with Topos
      • Where is Your Teacher?
    •  Where is Here?
      • Find Your Own Direction
      • Nidy-Gridy
      • Northward Ho!
  •  The Force of Friction
    •  Discovering Friction
      • Sliding and Stuttering
    •  Factors Affecting Friction
      • Does Contact Area Matter?
      • Does Weight Matter?
  •  How Tall Are We?
    •    Growing and Graphing
  •  Introduction to Inclined Planes
    •    Heave Ho!
  •  Transportation and the Environment
    •    Cars from the Future
  •  Who Needs What?
    •    Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones
  •    Ball Bounce Experiment
  •    Capturing the Sun's Warmth
  •    A Case of Innovation
  •    Falling Water
  •    Forces and Graphing
  •    How Much Heat Will It Hold?
  •    Make Your Own Temperature Scale
  •    Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame
  •    Scale Model of the Earth
  •    Swinging with Style
  •    Tower O' Power
  •    Waterwheel Work
  •    Wheeling It In!
  •    Wind Power!
  •    You're in Hot Water
•  Number and Operations
  •  How Tall Are We?
    •    Growing and Graphing
  •  Who Needs What?
    •    Light Plants and Dark Plants, Wet Plants and Dry Ones
  •    Choosing a Pyramid Site
  •    Drifting Continents
  •    Mobile Forces
  •    Stack It Up!
  •    Water Filtration
•  Physical Science
  •  Air Pollution
    •  I Don't Believe My Eyes!
      • Tears in Rain
      • What's Hiding in the Air?
    •  I've Gotta Get Some Air
      • The Search for Secret Agents
      • Smoke and Mirrors
    •  Let's Heat Things Up!
      • Hot Stuff!
      • It's Really Heating Up in Here!
      • Pollution Politics
    •  The No Zone of Ozone
      • Battling for Oxygen
      • Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
    •  Not So Neutral Views
      • Acid (and Base) Rainbows
      • Acid Rain Effects
      • Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
    •  On the Move
      • Air - Is It Really There?
      • Dangerous Air
      • How Predictable!
      • Moving without Wheels
    •  Pollution Solutions
      • Cleaning Air with Balloons
      • Let's Bag It
      • A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
      • Washing Air
      • What's a Kid to Do?
    •  Weather Watchers
      • Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
      • Good News - We're on the Rise!
      • I Can't Take the Pressure!
      • Take Their Word for It!
      • Turning the Air Upside Down
      • What Color is Your Air Today?
    •  What's Air Got to Do with It?
      • Environmental History Timeline
      • A Recipe for Air
    •  You've Got to See It to Believe It!
      • For Your Eyes Only
      • Green Marketing
  •  Bridges
    •  Bridging the Gaps
      • Bridge Types: Tensile & Compressive Forces
      • Straw Bridges
    •  Designing Bridges
      • Load It Up!
    •  A Good Foundation
      • Shallow & Deep Foundations
    •  Show Me the Money
      • Cost Comparisons
    •  Strength of Materials
      • Breaking the Mold
      • Engineering for the 3 Little Pigs
  •  Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
    •  What's Hot and What's Not?
      • Hot Cans and Cold Cans
  •  Energy
    •  Energy Conservation
      • Greenewables
      • Stop Heat from Escaping
      • Wasting Energy at Home
    •  The Energy of Light
      • Stations of Light
    •  The Energy of Music
      • Pitch and Frequency
      • Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
      • Traveling Sound
    •  Get Charged!
      • Blackout!
      • Conductivity
      • The Grid
      • The Path of Electrons
      • Potato Power
    •  How Hot Is It?
      • How Much Heat Will It Hold?
      • Make Your Own Temperature Scale
    •  Let the Sun Shine!
      • Capturing the Sun's Warmth
      • Cooking with the Sun
      • Power to the People
      • You're in Hot Water
    •  A River Ran Through It
      • A Case of Innovation
      • Falling Water
      • Waterwheel Work
    •  Thar She Blows!
      • Build an Anemometer
      • Wind Power!
      • Windmill of Your Mind — Distributed Energy Goes to School
    •  What is Energy?
      • Energy Detectives at Work
      • What Is Energy? Short Demos
  •  Energy of Motion
    •  Collisions and Momentum: Bouncing Balls
      • Bouncing Balls
      • Bouncing Balls (for High School)
      • Swinging Pendulum (for High School)
    •  Kinetic and Potential Energy of Motion
      • Swinging Pendulum
    •  Puttin' It All Together
      • Ramp and Review
      • Ramp and Review (for High Scool)
    •  What a Drag
      • Sliders
      • Sliders (for High School)
    •  Work and Power: Waterwheel
      • Power, Work and the Waterwheel
  •  Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
    •  Engineering: Simple Machines
      • Choosing a Pyramid Site
      • Stack It Up!
    •  Let's Move It!
      • Wheeling It In!
    •  Powerful Pulleys
      • Pulley'ing Your Own Weight
    •  Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
      • Solid Rock to Building Block
    •  Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
      • Modern Day Pyramids
    •  Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
      • Watch It Slide!
  •  Exploring Solar Power
    •  From Sunlight to Electric Current
      • Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car
    •  Using Heat from the Sun
      • Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven
  •  Floaters and Sinkers
    •  Floaters and Sinkers
      • Determining Densities
    •  What Floats Your Boat?
      • Buoyant Boats
      • Clay Boats
  •  Mechanics Mania
    •  Crash! Bang!
      • The Big Mo
      • Skateboard Disaster
    •  How Do Things Fall?
      • Hanging Around
      • How Do Things Fall?
      • Riding the Gravity Wave
    •  Motion Commotion
      • Action-Reaction! Rocket
      • Catapults!
      • Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?
    •  Red Light, Green Light
      • Hovercraft Racers!
      • How Far?
      • It Takes Two to Tangle
    •  Ring around the Rosie
      • Spin Me a Story
      • Super Spinners!
    •  Rocking the Boat
      • Perching Parrot
      • Tightrope Trials
      • Wow! That Captures It!
    •  Stressed and Strained
      • Breaking Beams
      • Team Up!
    •  Strong as the Weakest Link
      • Leaning Tower of Pasta
      • Stress, Inc.
    •  Swinging on a String
      • Cosmic Rhythm
      • Swing in Time
    •  What Makes Airplanes Fly?
      • Blow-and-Go Parachute
      • Heavy Helicopters
      • You Are There… First Flight
  •  Mixtures and Solutions
    •  The Fundamental Building Blocks of Matter
      • Gumdrop Atoms
    •  Mix It Up
      • Messin' with Mixtures
    •  Understanding Elements
      • Engineering and the Periodic Table
  •  Put a Spark In It! - Electricity
    •  Electrons on the Move
      • Completing the Circuit
      • Two-Cell Battery
    •  Go with the Flow
      • Switcheroo
      • Will It Conduct?
    •  Lights Out!
      • Static Cling
    •  Many Paths
      • Bulbs & Batteries Side by Side
    •  One Path
      • Bulbs & Batteries in a Row
      • Light Your Way
    •  Take Charge!
      • Build a Charge Detector
      • Charge It!
  •  Rockets
    •  Blast Off
      • Aqua-Thrusters!
      • Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved!
      • Pop Rockets
    •  Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites
      • I'm Not in Range
    •  Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
      • Rockets on a Shoestring Budget
    •  Newton Gets Me Moving
      • Newton Rocket Car
    •  Rocket Me into Space
      • Strawkets and Control
      • Strawkets and Thrust
      • Strawkets and Weight
    •  Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
      • Find It!
  •  Simple Machines
    •  The Advantage of Machines
      • A Simple Solution for the Circus
    •  Just Plane Simple
      • Tools and Equipment, Part I
    •  Levers that Lift
      • Machines and Tools, Part II
    •  Not So Simple
      • The Magician's Catapult
    •  Rube Goldberg and the Meaning of Machines
      • Design and Build a Rube Goldberg
  •  Sound and Light
    •  Checking the Surf
      • Simon Says Big Amplitude, Small Wavelength!
    •  Making Music
      • Simple Instruments
    •  Needing Illumination - Investigating Light
      • Light Scavengers
    •  Pictures Please - Traveling Light
      • Create a Pinhole Camera
    •  Plumbing the Deep - Using Sound Waves to See
      • Echolocation in Action!
    •  Surf's Up!
      • Make Some Waves
    •  To Absorb or Reflect… That is the Question
      • Controlling Sound
    •  Visible Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum
      • Building a Fancy Spectrograph
  •  Students As Scientists
    •  How Many Drops?
      • Wet Pennies
    •  How Much Sugar is in Bubble Gum?
      • Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?
  •  The Force of Friction
    •  Discovering Friction
      • Sliding and Stuttering
    •  Factors Affecting Friction
      • Does Contact Area Matter?
      • Does Weight Matter?
  •  Up, Up and Away! - Airplanes
    •  Are You In Control?
      • Better By Design
    •  Can You Take the Pressure?
      • Air Pressure
      • Fun with Bernoulli
    •  Future Flights!
      • Design a Flying Machine
    •  Land! Water! Sky! Oh My!
      • Let's Get It There Fast
    •  May the Force Be With You: Drag
      • What a Drag!
    •  May the Force Be With You: Lift
      • Windy Tunnel
    •  May the Force Be With You: Thrust
      • You're a Pushover!
    •  May the Force Be With You: Weight
      • Bend That Bar
      • Physics Tug of War
    •  Take Off with Paper Airplanes
      • Heads Up
    •  Will It Fly?
      • Balsa Glider Competition
  •  Art in Engineering - Moving Art
    •    Engineering Pop-Ups
    •    Mobile Forces
  •  Carbon Cycles
    •    Dinosaur Breath
  •  Chemical Wonders
    •    Solid, Liquid or Gas?
  •  Electrifying the World
    •    Lights On!
  •  Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments
    •    Energetic Musical Instruments
  •  Engineering in Sports
    •    Bumps and Bruises
  •  Fairly Fundamental Facts About Forces & Structures
    •    Glue Stick Activity
  •  How a Faucet Works
    •    Too Much Pressure!
  •  Imagine Life without Friction
    •    The Puck Stops Here
  •  Lunar Learning
    •    Lunar Lollipops
  •  Magnetic Personality
    •    Magnetic Attraction
  •  Move It!
    •    Bombs Away!
  •  Olympic Engineering
    •    Shapes of Strength
  •  Other Water Cycle
    •    What Trickles Down?
  •  Physics of Roller Coasters
    •    Building Roller Coasters
  •  Rock Solid
    •    Rocks, Rocks, Rocks
    •    Soapy Stress
  •  Science of Swinging
    •    Swinging with Style
  •  Sounds Like Music
    •    Strum Along
  •  Transportation and the Environment
    •    Cars from the Future
  •  Two Sides of One Force
    •    Building an Electromagnet
    •    Get Your Motor Running
  •    Ball Bounce Experiment
  •    Building Tetrahedral Kites
  •    Compare Fabric Materials
  •    Density Rainbow and the Great Viscosity Race
  •    Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti
  •    Floating and Falling Flows
  •    Forces and Graphing
  •    Forces on the Human Molecule
  •    Make an Alarm!
  •    Make Your Own Recycled Paper
  •    Paper Drop Design Competition
  •    Ready, Set, Escape
  •    The Squeeze is On
  •    Stop the Stretching
  •    Testing Fundamental Loads
  •    Touch and Discover
  •    Tower O' Power
  •    What is the Best Insulator: Air, Styrofoam, Foil, or Cotton?
  •    Wimpy Radar Antenna
  •    Yogurt Cup Speakers
•  Problem Solving
  •  Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
    •  Engineering: Simple Machines
      • Choosing a Pyramid Site
      • Stack It Up!
    •  Let's Move It!
      • Wheeling It In!
    •  Powerful Pulleys
      • Pulley'ing Your Own Weight
    •  Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
      • Solid Rock to Building Block
    •  Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
      • Modern Day Pyramids
    •  Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
      • Watch It Slide!
  •  Architects and Engineers
    •    Park It!
  •  Olympic Engineering
    •    Shapes of Strength
  •  Time for Design
    •    Hot Problem Solving
    •    Problem Solve Your School
  •  Transportation and the Environment
    •    Cars from the Future
  •    Able Sports
  •    Yogurt Cup Speakers
•  Reasoning and Proof
  •  Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
    •  Engineering: Simple Machines
      • Choosing a Pyramid Site
      • Stack It Up!
    •  Let's Move It!
      • Wheeling It In!
    •  Powerful Pulleys
      • Pulley'ing Your Own Weight
    •  Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
      • Solid Rock to Building Block
    •  Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
      • Modern Day Pyramids
    •  Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
      • Watch It Slide!
  •    Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
  •    Traveling Sound
  •    Yogurt Cup Speakers
•  Science and Technology
  •  Air Pollution
    •  I Don't Believe My Eyes!
      • Tears in Rain
      • What's Hiding in the Air?
    •  I've Gotta Get Some Air
      • The Search for Secret Agents
      • Smoke and Mirrors
    •  Let's Heat Things Up!
      • Hot Stuff!
      • It's Really Heating Up in Here!
      • Pollution Politics
    •  The No Zone of Ozone
      • Battling for Oxygen
      • Metamorphosis — Stories of Change
    •  Not So Neutral Views
      • Acid (and Base) Rainbows
      • Acid Rain Effects
      • Is That Legal? A Case of Acid Rain
    •  On the Move
      • Air - Is It Really There?
      • Dangerous Air
      • How Predictable!
      • Moving without Wheels
    •  Pollution Solutions
      • Cleaning Air with Balloons
      • Let's Bag It
      • A Merry-Go-Round for Dirty Air
      • Washing Air
      • What's a Kid to Do?
    •  Weather Watchers
      • Dripping Wet or Dry as a Bone?
      • Good News - We're on the Rise!
      • I Can't Take the Pressure!
      • Take Their Word for It!
      • Turning the Air Upside Down
      • What Color is Your Air Today?
    •  What's Air Got to Do with It?
      • Environmental History Timeline
      • A Recipe for Air
    •  You've Got to See It to Believe It!
      • For Your Eyes Only
      • Green Marketing
  •  All Caught Up: Bycatching and Design
    •  Caught in the Net
      • All Caught Up
    •  Sound for Sight
      • Can You Hear it?
      • Let Your Ears do the Walking
  •  Biodomes
    •  Animals and Engineering
      • Biodomes Engineering Design Project: Lessons 2-6
      • Biomimicry: Natural Designs
    •    Cleaning Up with Decomposers
    •  Environments and Ecosystems
      • Population Density: How Much Space Do You Have?
    •  Go with the Energy Flow
      • Got Energy? Spinning a Food Web
    •    A Mini World
    •  Planting Thoughts
      • Plant Cycles: Photosynthesis & Transpiration
  •  Building Towards the Future
    •  The Next Dimension
      • A Place in Space
    •  Skyscrapers: Engineering Up!
      • Balsa Towers
      • Newspaper Tower
  •  Energy
    •  Energy Conservation
      • Greenewables
      • Stop Heat from Escaping
      • Wasting Energy at Home
    •  The Energy of Light
      • Stations of Light
    •  The Energy of Music
      • Pitch and Frequency
      • Seeing and Feeling Sound Vibrations
      • Traveling Sound
    •  Get Charged!
      • Blackout!
      • Conductivity
      • The Grid
      • The Path of Electrons
      • Potato Power
    •  How Hot Is It?
      • How Much Heat Will It Hold?
      • Make Your Own Temperature Scale
    •  Let the Sun Shine!
      • Capturing the Sun's Warmth
      • Cooking with the Sun
      • Power to the People
      • You're in Hot Water
    •  A River Ran Through It
      • A Case of Innovation
      • Falling Water
      • Waterwheel Work
    •  Thar She Blows!
      • Build an Anemometer
      • Wind Power!
      • Windmill of Your Mind — Distributed Energy Goes to School
    •  What is Energy?
      • Energy Detectives at Work
      • What Is Energy? Short Demos
  •  Environment
    •  3RC (Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost)
      • Composting - Nature's Disappearing Act
      • It's all In the Package
    •    Got Dirty Air?
    •  How Should Our Gardens Grow?
      • This Land Is Your Land, This Land Is My Land
    •  I've Got Issues!
      • Cool Views
      • Issues Awareness
      • Issues, Issues Everywhere
    •  Interactions Everywhere!
      • Environmental Interactions
      • Moebius Strips
    •  Keep Spreading the News
      • Write On!
    •  Naturally Speaking
      • The Great Divide
      • I Feel Renewed!
      • Is That Natural?
    •  Renewable Energy
      • Solar Power
      • Water Power
      • Wind Power
    •  Solid Waste Takes Over
      • This Landfill Is a Gas!
      • Trash Talkin'
    •  Splish, Splash, I was Takin' a Bath!
      • The Dirty Water Project
      • What's Gotten Into You?
  •  Evolutionary Engineering: Simple Machines from Pyramids to Skyscrapers
    •  Engineering: Simple Machines
      • Choosing a Pyramid Site
      • Stack It Up!
    •  Let's Move It!
      • Wheeling It In!
    •  Powerful Pulleys
      • Pulley'ing Your Own Weight
    •  Pyramid Building: How to Use a Wedge
      • Solid Rock to Building Block
    •  Simple Machines and Modern Day Engineering Analogies
      • Modern Day Pyramids
    •  Slide Right on By Using an Inclined Plane
      • Watch It Slide!
  •  Exploring Solar Power
    •  From Sunlight to Electric Current
      • Racing with the Sun - Creating a Solar Car
    •  Using Heat from the Sun
      • Cooking with the Sun - Creating a Solar Oven
  •  Intro to Engineering
    •  Architects and Engineers
      • Park It!
    •  Chemical Wonders
      • Solid, Liquid or Gas?
    •  Engineering in Sports
      • Bumps and Bruises
    •  Homeward Bound
      • For Those Back Home…
    •  Olympic Engineering
      • Shapes of Strength
    •  Transportation and the Environment
      • Cars from the Future
  •  Mission to Mars
    •  The Amazing Red Planet
      • An Inflated Impression of Mars
    •  Come On Over Rover
      • Edible Rovers
      • Edible Rovers - High School
    •  Get Me Off This Planet
      • The Great Gravity Escape
    •  Manned Mission to Mars
      • Are We Alone?
    •  Red Rover Robotics
      • Strong-Arm Tactics
    •  Six Minutes of Terror
      • Egg-cellent Landing
  •  Rockets
    •  Blast Off
      • Aqua-Thrusters!
      • Fuel Mystery Dis-Solved!
      • Pop Rockets
    •  Keep in Touch: Communications and Satellites
      • I'm Not in Range
    •  Learn to Build a Rocket in 5 Days or Your Money Back
      • Rockets on a Shoestring Budget
    •  Newton Gets Me Moving
      • Newton Rocket Car
    •  Rocket Me into Space
      • Strawkets and Control
      • Strawkets and Thrust
      • Strawkets and Weight
    •  Where Am I: Navigation and Satellites
      • Find It!
  •  Surgical Device Engineering
    •  Medical Instrumentation
      • Surgical Resident for a Day
    •  Put Your Heart into Engineering
      • No Valve in Vain
  •  Weather and Atmosphere
    •  Air Under Pressure
      • Building a Barometer
    •  Stormy Skies
      • Weather Alert
    •  Weather Basics
      • Dress for Success
    •  Weather Forecasting
      • Backyard Weather Station
  •  Electrifying the World
    •    Lights On!
  •  Energy Transfer in Musical Instruments
    •    Energetic Musical Instruments
  •  Food Packaging
    •    Package those Foods!
  •  Fortified Breakfast
    •    Cereal Magnets
  •  Generators: Three Mile Island vs. Hoover Dam
    •    Win that Bid! Selling Your Power Solution
  •  Improving West Corridor Design
    •    Analyze the Data
    •    Establish the Design Criteria
    •    Graphing the West Corridor Data
    •    Improve the System
  •  Introduction to Inclined Planes
    •    Heave Ho!
  •  Investigating Torque
    •    Wimpy Radar Antenna
  •  Move It!
    •    Bombs Away!
  •  Riding the Radio Waves
    •    AM I on the Radio?
  •  Strongest Pump of All
    •    Electrocardiograph Building
  •  Time for Design
    •    Hot Problem Solving
    •    Problem Solve Your School
  •    Able Sports
  •    Amusement Park Ride: Ups and Downs in Design
  •    An Arm and A Leg
  •    Binary and Communication Systems
  •    Broken Bones
  •    Build a Birdhouse
  •    Build an Approximate Scale Model of an Object
  •    Building Tetrahedral Kites
  •    Chair Design
  •    Compare Human-made Objects with Natural Objects
  •    Construct And Test Roofs for Different Climates
  •    Construction Technologies: Construct the Strongest Bridge
  •    Design a Bicycle Helmet
  •    Design a Parachute
  •    Design an Egyptian Playground
  •    Design Packing to Safely Mail Raw Spaghetti
  •    Design Your Own Rube Goldberg Machine
  •    Designing a Package that Works
  •    Disassemble a Click Pen
  •    Do as the Romans: Construct an Aqueduct!
  •    Don't Crack Humpty
  •    Engineer a Sneaker
  •    Fancy Feet
  •    Floodplain Modeling
  •    Focus on Fabrics: Putting Materials to Good Use
  •    Forces and Graphing
  •    A House is a House for Me
  •    Hydraulic Arm Challenge
  •    Invent a Backscratcher from Everyday Materials
  •    Journey to the Afterlife
  •    Make an Alarm!
  •    Make Your Own Recycled Paper
  •    Making Decisions: Packaging and the Environment
  •    Manufacturing Technologies: Making a Picture Frame
  •    Mini-Landslide
  •    Ohm's Law 2
  •    Ohm's Law I
  •    Ready, Set, Escape
  •    Rolling Blackouts & Environmental Impact - What are our Electricity Options?
  •    Seeing the world through a different lens
  •    Silly Semi-Solids
  •    Smart Move!
  •    Sneaking Up On Sneakers
  •    Space Shelter
  •    Spaghetti Bridge
  •    Survive That Tsunami!
  •    Testing Fundamental Loads
  •    Touch and Discover
  •    Tower Investigation and the Egg
  •    Viking Ship Design Challenge
  •    Water Filtration
  •    Which Roof is Tops?
  •    Wind Chimes
  •    Wire Maze
  •    Yogurt Cup Speakers

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