- Solar Sails: The Future of Space Travel – Activity – www.teachengineering.org
- “design and construct model solar sails made of aluminum foil to move cardboard tube satellites through “space” on a string.”
- NOAA, NASA launch new satellite Nov. 19 to increase weather forecasting accuracy, first time since the 1970s | cleveland.com
- “NOAA, NASA launch new satellite Nov. 19 to increase weather forecasting accuracy, first time since the 1970s”
- Mint-Mobiles – Activity – www.teachengineering.org
- “plastic drinking straws (estimated 4-6; make sure the straw diameter is smaller than the mint candy’s hole diameter)Popsicle sticks (estimated 2-4)lifesaver-shaped candies
- Kids Ahead – Robotics Activities
- “Robotics Activities “
- Kids Ahead – The coolest science, technology, engineering, and math stuff for kids like you!
- “Kids Ahead is the place to find the coolest science, technology, engineering, and math stuff for kids like you. So what are you waiting for? Start exploring!”
- Engineering vocabulary, Engineering word list – www.myvocabulary.com
- “Engineering Vocabulary Word List (157)A) Abutment, Acceleration, Activation, Advice, Advise, Amplitude, Analysis, Angle, Assembly, Automation, Axis, AxleB) Balance, Battery, Bearing, Blueprint
- Education World: ‘Gen Z’ Educators Believe They are Prepping Students for Jobs that Don’t Exist Yet
- “students will graduate to take on jobs that don’t yet exist; 75 percent said they need better tools to best prepare students for this future unpredictable workforce.
- The first secret of great design | Tony Fadell – YouTube
- “As human beings, we get used to “the way things are” really fast. But for designers, the way things are is an opportunity … Could things be better? How?
- “Designed by Apple in California” Chronicles 20 Years of Apple Design – YouTube
- nice discussion of how design team works together, how they use models and making in the design process – book description
- Decibel 10th for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
- “Decibel 10th turns your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch into a professional sound meter, precisely measures the sound pressure level all around you. This extremely useful and beautiful tool
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