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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 03/10/2026
🧲 Powering Up with Electromagnets: teachengineering.org/activities/cub-3079-electromagnets-electricity-magnetic-field-activity In this 🆕 iterative design challenge, sixth grade students build a basic electromagnet and explore how it works by using a switch to turn the electric current on and off.
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 01/10/2026
🆕 In this engineering design challenge for 7th graders, students work in small groups and rotate through hands-on stations where they: 🧲 Visualize magnetic fields 🔍 Investigate how different materials interact with magnetic fields 🗂️ Sort magnetic and non-magnetic objects
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 29/09/2026
🆕 Cybersecurity: Encryption Using Shift Ciphers: teachengineering.org/activities/uno-3063-caesar-ciphers-cryptography-cybersecurity-activity After this engaging activity, 10th grade students should be able to: 🛡️ Explain the critical role of encryption in protecting digital information
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 28/09/2026
Chemical engineers use emulsion science to develop solutions for various problems like sunscreen 🌞 🆕 In the latest middle school addition to our free digital library, student teams design a reef-safe, non-carcinogenic mineral sunscreen that rivals the effectiveness of leading commercial sunscreens:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 25/09/2026
How do we describe a "typical" value in a dataset? The latest addition to our free digital library answers this! ✅ 🆕 For grades 9-12: Using a Jupyter Notebook, students explore the concept of what is “typical” in a dataset by analyzing measures of center and spread 📊
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 23/09/2026
🆕 Pendulum Art: Simple Harmonic Motion with a TWIST! Students take on the role of biomedical engineers by designing and building paint pendulums that model oscillatory signals similar to brain waves: After this hands-on activity, 10th grade students should be able to:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 21/09/2026
Middle School STEM educators: Here's a free 7th grade engineering activity to use this week! 😁 🆕 Rock Solutions: A Solid Underground CO2 Storage Engineering Challenge Students act as environmental engineers and design underground systems to store CO₂ as part of climate change mitigation efforts.
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 18/09/2026
💭 What if you could connect classroom engineering learning to real-word possibilities with free, teacher-friendly resources? With the new @teachengineering.org site, inspiring the next generation of innovators has never been easier! 🤩 See how it looks and works for yourself: teachengineering.org
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 30/07/2026
Engineers incorporate sensors into machines to make them perform complex, precise, and/or tedious tasks. This challenge helps students improve their understanding of how robots both “see” and "think!" 🆕 Follow the Line: Programming Robots with Color Sensors
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 28/07/2026
🆕 Check out this latest high school school addition to our free digital library: Synthetic Biology: New Genes, New Proteins 🧬 This activity introduces students to synthetic biology by having them explore how DNA, RNA, and proteins are connected, and how scientists engineer new biological materials!
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 27/07/2026
⚡ Design Without Building: Simulating the Process of Engineering Memristor Materials: lnkd.in/e26SaJjg In this 🆕 iterative design challenge, tenth grade students ask and answer the question, “How do materials scientists design memristors by predicting material properties at the atomic scale?”
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 24/07/2026
In this interactive activity, students become materials engineers tasked with designing and optimizing a functional polymer-based material through systematic testing and iteration 🫟 🆕 Activity for 6th-8th graders: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uok-3027-get-slimy-exploring-matter-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 22/07/2026
🆕 Activity for students in grades 4-6: teachengineering.org/activities/view/eclips-3046-nasa-eclips-shower-clock-activity NASA eClips Our World: Designing a Shower Clock 🚿 Using the design engineering process, students design a shower clock prototype that accurately measures a five-minute shower.
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 24/06/2026
Fifth grade students use the engineering design process to explore how structure affects strength while also focusing on creative, sustainable ways to repair and reuse materials. 🎒 Unbeweavably Strong:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 22/06/2026
Cell Membranes and Osmosis and Gummy Bears, Oh My! 🍬 For grades 3-5: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uot-3040-cell-membranes-osmosis-gummy-bears
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 18/06/2026
🆕 Check out this latest high school school addition to our free digital library: teachengineering.org/activities/view/jpl-3055-light-detector-space-communications-activity Build a Light Detector Inspired by Space Communications 💡
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 22/05/2026
🆕 For students in grades 6-8: teachengineering.org/activities/view/jpl-3053-mars-thermos-design-heat-transfer Designing a Mars Thermos 🌡️ Using the engineering design process, students design a “Mars Thermos” that keeps a small amount of water from changing more than 5°F over 10 minutes.
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 22/05/2026
🪐 In this design engineering challenge, student teams help complete a simulated MSR mission — like real engineers at NASA! 🆕 Mars Sample Return Coding Challenge: teachengineering.org/activities/view/jpl-3049-mars-sample-return-coding-challenge
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 19/05/2026
Check out the latest addition to our free digital library! Students explore capacitance and capacitors by designing, building, and optimizing a capacitor prototype 🔋 🆕 For grades 11-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/bgsu-2919-all-charged-up-homemade-capacitor-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 01/05/2026
In this design challenge, seventh graders practice teamwork, creativity + communication by working collaboratively and presenting their final results! 🆕 Make It Clean! Engineering a Multipurpose Cleaning Product: teachengineering.org/activities/view/rice-3043-make-it-clean-cleaning-product-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 27/04/2026
🔌 Beyond Binary: Building Blocks of Digital Decisions In this hands-on activity, students work as teams of engineers to create functional logic gates! 🆕 For grades 9-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uod-3034-beyond-binary-building-blocks-digital-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 24/04/2026
🆕 Mars Chemistry Coding Challenge 🛸 This activity emphasizes engineering design, systems thinking, and the critical role #CSed plays in enabling advanced technologies for space exploration: teachengineering.org/activities/view/jpl-3042-mars-chemistry-coding-challenge-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 21/04/2026
🆕 For students in grades 9-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uod-3017-microchips-photolithography-light-activity 💅🏻 In this hands-on design challenge, students simulate the photolithography process used in semiconductor manufacturing by using gel nail polish as a UV-sensitive photoresist
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 17/04/2026
🆕 Students design and test candy-coating techniques as a model to investigate how surfactants affect liquid spreading + adhesion! Activity for students in grades 10-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uok-3030-sweet-surfactants-surface-tension-activity After this design engineering challenge,
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 14/04/2026
🆕 Polymers, Plastics, and Bioplastics: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uok-3025-polymers-plastic-bioplastics-activity Sixth grade students learn about natural + synthetic polymers 🩳 Then act like engineers and design a product that could help reduce plastic waste and improve sustainability ♻️
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 02/04/2026
🆕 Activity for students in grades 10-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uok-3026-additives-affect-surface-tension-activity How Additives Affect Surface Tension💧 In this hands-on activity, students observe, model + analyze how substances like surfactants can alter fluid behavior in the lungs.
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 31/03/2026
In this design challenge, students are introduced to logic gates + problem solving through a real-world scenario in which delivery trucks must be efficiently routed through a congested city area 🚚 🆕 For grades 9-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uod-3024-rush-hour-mayhem-logic-gates-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 27/03/2026
🆕 Adding an Ethical Twist to Engineering Designs: teachengineering.org/activities/view/tam-3022-ethical-twist-engineering-design-activity After this engaging case study, 10th grade students should be able to: ✅ Define and understand ethics in general and in engineering
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 25/03/2026
🆕 In this design challenge, students construct a prosthetic hand and program it to move through different angles of motion, modeling how real-world assistive technologies function 🤚🏿 For grades 10-12: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uok-3021-smart-prosthetic-hand-grip-arduino-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 24/03/2026
🆕 Exploring Light and Health: Designing a Light-Based Diagnostic Device In this hands-on challenge, students use the engineering design process to design and build a light-based test device 🔦 For fifth graders: teachengineering.org/activities/view/fiu-3023-light-based-diagnostic-device-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 11/03/2026
🆕 Check out this latest high school school addition to our free digital library! Hands-On Robotics: Precision Pick-and-Place Challenge 🤖 In this activity, students will act as robotics engineers, and should be able to:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 09/03/2026
Mission Myelin: Model, Damage, Repair 🧬 Biomedical and bio engineers study myelin to test how different treatments can promote remyelination, especially in neurological disorders such as multiple sclerosis (MS). 🆕 After this hands-on simulation, students should be able to:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 09/03/2026
The 1️⃣ week countdown is on: Apply to attend the @teachengineering.org Champions Institute! This is YOUR opportunity for engineering education PD — and to be inspired! 🤩 Begin your application day: teachengineering.org/pdworkshops
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 05/03/2026
🆕 For students in grades 6-8: teachengineering.org/activities/view/rice-3008-fluid-forces-bridges-hydraulic-systems-activity In this new activity, students explore how water and other fluids can exert enough force to raise a heavy bridge — and then design a hydraulic bridge for themselves! 🌉
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 04/03/2026
If you are committed to amplifying STEM advocacy — and inspiring your peers, students, and community! — apply for PD through the @teachengineering.org Champions Institute: teachengineering.org/pdworkshops Open to all K-12 educators, counselors, and informal STEM teachers nationwide! 😊 Apply today!
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 03/03/2026
Check out the latest addition to our free digital library! 🆕 For students in grades 6-8 to think critically and creatively: teachengineering.org/activities/view/usm-3009-biome-robots-polymers-survival-activity In this engineering design challenge ––
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 03/03/2026
Teach Engineering has always prepared educators to lead with confidence and spark students' excitement for discovery! 🤩 Now, we have a new look: teachengineering.org The same @teachengineering.org you love, but with updated visuals to help you inspire the next generation of change makers!
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 02/03/2026
😎 If you're committed to energizing and empowering STEM students, apply to become a Teach Engineering Champion: teachengineering.org/pdworkshops A 2025 TECI Champion Graduate said: "As an educator working in rural communities, I am always seeking high-quality, culturally adaptable STEM resources —
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 27/02/2026
The TECI is a 2-day, immersive program that blends hands-on exploration, collaboration, and reflection to create a dynamic learning experience. This is an opportunity to join a community of other like-minded education professionals to learn, collaborate, and innovate through workshops like:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 25/02/2026
Passionate STEM Educators: Become a @teachengineering.org Champion! 🥇 👉🏽 Apply today to receive advanced training, resources, and to learn how Teach Engineering can help you engage students in engineering: teachengineering.org/pdworkshops
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 24/02/2026
We recently partnered with @discovereorg.bsky.social to host a webinar on exploring practical ways to introduce engineering to K-12 students! Educators stepped into the role of students and participated in a hands-on challenge from the TeachEngineering Digital Library called Controlling Sound! 🔊
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 23/02/2026
🚸 K-12 STEM Educators: If you’re already inspiring and leading both students and fellow educators, Teach Engineering needs your passion! Become a Teach Engineering Champion and inspire your colleagues to engage future generations with hands-on engineering experiences! 🧰
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 20/02/2026
Calling all formal and informal K-12 educators 📣 Become a Teach Engineering Champion and participate in the annual @teachengineering.org Champions Institute! This exclusive and unique professional development offers:
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 16/02/2026
🆕 @teachengineering.org is hiring an Education Consultant! This collaborative part-time, work-from-home role will plan and deliver PD, execute the Teach Engineering Champions Institute, and provide project management services. ✍🏻 Learn more and apply now: ncwit.org/jobs
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 10/02/2026
👟 Sole Survivors: Designing Energy-Absorbing Orthotics 👟 🆕 In this hands-on activity, students act as biomedical engineers and follow the engineering design process to create and test custom orthotic insoles: teachengineering.org/activities/view/clem-3005-sole-survivors-energy-orthotics-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 05/02/2026
🆕 Straws and Strings: How Fingers Work, One Pull at a Time In this informal learning activity, students become engineers and build a working finger—and maybe even a full hand—using only simple materials like popsicle sticks, straws, and string. The goal: Make the creation move like a hand 👋🏼
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 03/02/2026
🆕 Informal activity for middle schoolers: Robotic Arm Challenge Using their knowledge of simple machines, students engage in the engineering design process to design, build, and operate a model robotic arm 🤖
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 29/01/2026
🆕 Fast Track Factory: Using the Engineering Design Process to Improve Efficiency in Mass Production: In this engaging activity, 9th graders become “efficiency experts” contracted by an auto manufacturer: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uol-3007-fast-track-factory-mass-production-activity
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 27/01/2026
🆕 In this hands-on activity for 9th graders, students learn about ethical hacking, containers, and network engineering as they use Docker to: understand how to detect system network vulnerabilities, develop customized wordlists, and discuss solutions to secure systems from threat actors.
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Teach Engineering @teachengineering.org · 20/01/2026
🆕 Mines to Mobiles: Aqueous Solutions and Environmental Chemistry: teachengineering.org/activities/view/uot-3002-mines-mobiles-aqueous-solutions-activity In this activity, 7th and 8th grade students use the engineering design process to efficiently extract a model rare earth element, terbium:
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