Designing Safer Roadways

03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman

This grade 4 design task focuses on forces, motion, and transportation systems by challenging students to design a roadway that will slow and then stop vehicles from running off the road.

Designing Safer Roadways Slides

11 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman

PowerPoint slides for the Designing Safer Roadways activity in the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.

Designing Safer Roadways Support Materials

03 Jun 2014 | Contributor(s): Kendra A Erk, James Daniel Lehman

These materials are intended to support the Designing Safer Roadways design task. The materials include videos of successful and unsuccessful trials as well as a PowerPoint slide that illustrates the roadway zones.

Designing the Invitational Envirnonment

17 Feb 2012 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Kari Clase, Peg A Ertmer

RGS Summer 2011 Week 1 Resource: Designing the Invitational Envirnomentfrom Problem Based Learning: an Inquiry Approach, by John Barrell

Dog gone it!

08 Jun 2015 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, Todd Richard Kelley, Chell Nyquist, James Daniel Lehman

This design challenge, for students in grade 3, focuses on simple and compound machines. The objective of the challenge is to design a compound machine to help a large breed of dog to get into and out of the back of a car.

Dr. Nate Mosier's Virtual Field Trip on Developing Biofuels

04 Dec 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Nate Mosier, Lisa Paulette Kirkham

Dr. Nate Mosier, Associate Professor of Ag and Biological Engineering, presents a 30 minute virtual field trip for high school STEM students. Dr. Mosier and his graduate assistant, Barron Hewetson, describe work they are doing on the conversion of biomass to biofuels, with a special emphasis on...

Drink Pouch

11 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Bryan Hubbard, Alyssa Panitch, Kari Clase, Tahira Reid, Nancy Irene Tyrie, James Daniel Lehman

This 3rd grade design activity is focused on creating a drink pouch that can keep a drink cool in the hot sun.

Earthen Dam Design Task

03 Jun 2014 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, James Daniel Lehman

This grade 3 design task focuses on earth materials and the construction of an earthen dam.

Earthen Dam PowerPoint

10 Jun 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, David C Eichinger, James Daniel Lehman

PowerPoint slides for Earthen Dam activity during the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.

EDCI Catapults Sp 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Mary Hildebrand, Andrea Levrio

EDCI Rollercoaster Energy Spring 2012

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brooke Ann Winebrenner, Cassie Timmons

EDCI lesson plan about potential and kinetic energy.

EDCI Strong Book Nook Fall 2011

28 Mar 2012 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco

Grade 6 lesson plan, engineering design process.

Electricity PowerPoint for Light Just Right

13 Jun 2013 | Teaching Materials | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

These PowerPoint slides accompany the Light Just Right design lesson.

Engineering Design Assessment PowerPoint

29 Jun 2017 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Colleen Cooper, James Daniel Lehman, Aaron Hamilton

This PowerPoint presentation accompanied the session on engineering design assessment at the SLED summer workshops in 2017.

Erosion Lesson (Canal) PowerPoint

10 Jun 2014 | Downloads | Contributor(s): Venkatesh Merwade, David C Eichinger, James Daniel Lehman

PowerPoint slides for the erosion lesson associated with the canal design task from the 2014 SLED Summer Institute.

Exploring Whirligigs

09 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...

Exploring Whirligigs

09 Jun 2013 | Lesson Plans | Contributor(s): Brenda Capobianco, James Daniel Lehman

This inquiry lesson, for grades 3-4, involves students conducting a fair test investigation to determine the way an object (a whirligig) falls through the air and how this fall depends on its mass, surface area, and other factors. This lesson is an adaptation of a lesson developed by...

Extracting Energy From Plants: Why is this important? A Virtual Field Trip by Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar

06 Feb 2014 | Seminars | Contributor(s): Lisa Paulette Kirkham

Dr. Mahdi Abu-Omar, Robert Wetherill Professor of Chemistry, presents a 20 minute virtual field trip for high school STEM students. Dr. Abu-Omar describes work he is doing on the conversion of biomass to biofuels, emphasizing techniques for breaking down lignin in plant materials. Lignin contains...

Follow-Up: Creating a Bar Graph in Excel

11 Jan 2012 | Seminars | Contributor(s): James Daniel Lehman

This narrated video shows how to create a bar graph in Excel with data from the M&M activity.