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TryEngineering offers a variety of lesson plans that align with education standards to allow teachers and students to apply engineering principles in the classroom. The following training module outlines how TryEngineering lessons can benefit your students, provides tips on how these lessons can be integrated with other subject areas and offers background information on engineering and engineering careers.

Lesson on application of engineering techniques to understand biological systems - activities include analyzing DNA profiles of bank robbery suspects and 3D building of DNA

In this lesson students learn the equation needed to calculate bone mineral density. This is a calculation that biomedical engineers make a lot. The student will be motivated to learn more about the use of logarithms.

This site provides lessons on a wide array of earth science topics that kids can access at home which includes interactive videos, games, activities and lessons. It also provides great resources for teachers that can help foster creative lessons with the content. The website is a little confusing at first because each link (topic) will redirect you to another website (i.e. National Geographic) but it exposes you to different approaches to teaching the content.

Wow! There is a lot of information on this link directly related to Earth Science. I am currently going through each link and writing down notes to help me with some of my future lectures. Thanks so much for the link that brings it all together so that I don't have to have a search overload for some of these great resources!

Innovation to me is the enhancement of education using customized tools. Recently, there has been great buzz about promoting SMART technologies- a collaborative leaning software that accommodates a variety of learning styles- promoting varied instruction. The SMART notebook collaborative learning software is the world's leading lesson creation software that opens options for interactive lessons that support student-centered learning. Of the vast technologies within this field I seemed to find SMART boards as a very innovative tool for classroom instruction. A SMART board is basically an interactive white board that allows teachers to project a website or image from the laptop to the white board. These SMART boards are capable of storing and saving lessons as well as turning simple lessons into more interactive and customized ones geared to enhance student learning. I think this application is more useful in disciplines such as Science because science changes all the time and has the ability to be much "active" using the web- this is not to say that it cannot be useful in the other disciples however.

Students extend knowledge of skeletal system to biomedical engineering design, specifically the concept of artificial limbs.  Associated activities include designing, creating, and testing lower leg prosthetic limbs and designing splints/casts.

automated counting of red blood cells - might be good for integration with anatomy class

This is a wonderful resource. Many teachers are always searching for resources and ideas for the SMART Board.

I constantly use smart exchange! It is wonderful and there are tons of free templates for review games, etc. too!

I liked this so much, I even looked up Geometry resources. Shirley

Activities Short instructional tools to be woven into lesson plans. Lesson Plans Plans for explaining a topic in a few class sessions; includes student activities, PowerPoints, assessment materials. Multimedia Resources Collection of archived MSiC videos, PowerPoints, and podcasts. Tutorials Step-by-step instructions for use of various calculators, computer software, and web applications.

I used this clip in my lesson plan for semi-permeable membranes as "motivation" for sparking interest in the subject. The main question: What happens to your fingertips when you've had them under the water for too long? Why? This can lead into conversation at the molecular level (i.e. osmosis).

This is a great tool for teachers to find great tools for Earth Science education- it provides lesson plan ideas as well as great interactive tools/resources that can be incorporated into the lesson plan. It is specific to Earth Science Education, but I think it is a great site for teachers to find a complied list of resources for individual topics in the discipline.

This is a neat lesson for teaching students in physical science classes about simple machines, how they work, and how they benefit society. Students have to design their own simple machines that would assist in lifting an elephant onto a train car (although an different scenario could easily be substituted). Requires very few materials.

This lesson has students build their own barometers they can measure air pressure with. In this way students learn about the development and implementation of meteorological instrumentation. Students can measure air pressure for a given amount if time (say, a week or a month) and then discuss what qualities of their barometers could possibly be improved upon. This aspect relates to engineers constantly reevaluating their work and improving upon existing methods.

Students are introduced to biomimicry, which is looking to nature for engineering ideas to solve problems.

Cancer and Geometry Charity Manis, NSF Scholar, 2002-03 Mathematics & Science Center and The University of Virginia Developed with funding from the National Science Foundation (DGE0086320) Major Understanding Based on the present and past, cancer is very real. It touches families as well as individuals when they least expect it.

In this lesson, the engineering component is the students making the different polygons on the Geo-Boards, using the rulers to measure their areas and perimeters, and then comparing the results of making the different shapes and sizes of these polygons.

I like this a lot! I agree that we are moving towards virtual learning experiences more and more in today's world.

The videos cover several areas in algebra for which I know students in my school could benefit from their use.