- Multimedia Gallery – Additive manufacturing: 3-D printing beyond plastic | NSF – National Science Foundation
- advance 3-D printing–known among engineers as additive manufacturing–with copper, a widely used conductor in electronics. Williams is using a process called binder jetting in which an inkjet prin…
- Multimedia Gallery – Engineering for Mobility | NSF – National Science Foundation
- At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, elite athletes with disabilities will rely on strength, speed and skill as they go for the gold in 21 different sporting events. Rory Cooper, a biomechanical enginee…
- National Center for Technological Literacy | NCTL
- “The National Center for Technological Literacy® (NCTL®) is an advocacy and thought leadership initiative from the Museum of Science, Boston. We are dedicated to creating the next generation…
- US NSF – Engineering Classroom Resources
- This collection of lessons and web resources is aimed at classroom teachers, their students, and students’ families. Most of these resources come from the National Science Digital Library (NSDL…
- The Art of Tinkering: Meet 150+ Makers Working at the Intersection of Art, Science & Technology: Wilkinson, Karen, Petrich, Mike: 9781616286095: Amazon.com: Books
- This Is Not Your Average Art Book. Brought to you by the Exploratorium’s Tinkering Studio, The Art of Tinkering is an unprecedented celebration of what it means to tinker: to take things apart,…
- Engineering After-School Program with Elementary Preservice Teachers and K-8 Students – Journal of Interdisciplinary Teacher Leadership
- “A talent for tinkering: Developing talents in children from low-income households through engineering curriculum. “Gender differences in interest, perceived personal capacity, and partic…
- Translating Engineering Research K-8 | A collaboration of The Ohio State University College of Engineering, the College of Education and Human Ecology, and the Metro Early College Middle Scho…
- product of TEK8 are project-based lessons around engineering design challenges created by engineering students and teachers. The design challenges have been tested in an after-school setting and ex…
- Zoombinis on the App Store
- Use logic, analyze data, spot patterns and hone problem solving skills. Players face a series of increasingly difficult challenges that stand between the Zoombinis and freedom. Twelve perilous puzz…
- Easy Engineering Lesson Plans & Activities for Ages 4-18
- Explore IEEE Try Engineering’s database of lesson plans to teach engineering concepts to your students, aged 4 to 18. Explore areas such as lasers, LED lights, flight, smart buildings, and more t…
- EiE Careers for Engineers | EiE
- Imagine your futureDo you like to imagine things? Do you like to solve problems? You might like to be an engineer. Engineers are people who make things to solve problems, such as headphones, medici…
- Families and STEM Events | EiE
- Whether you’re a family looking for fun activities to do at home or an educator organizing a STEM event for families in your community, EiE Families has you covered! These free, hands-on, researc…
- Integrating English Language Arts into Elementary Science Instruction – edWeb
- Drawing the connection between language and science is easier than you might think! Join Reading and ELD Specialist and HMH Into Science author, Marjorie Frank, for an edWebinar that offers science…
- If You Were An Engineer on Apple Podcasts
- A celebration of engineering; inspiring children, parents and teachers alike. Hear from engineers at the top of their game, discover the limitless ideas of young engineers in the making, and meet t…
- These geckos crash-land on rainforest trees but don’t fall, thanks to their tails: Scientists find another use for lizards’ versatile tails: Stabilization after headfirst crashes — Science…
- to really determine what the geckos were experiencing, they decided to build a soft robot at the Max Planck Institute that resembles a gecko and launch it with a catapult into the wall. This way, t…
- A universal equation for the shape of an egg — ScienceDaily
- Researchers have discovered a universal mathematical formula that can describe any bird’s egg existing in nature — a significant step in understanding not only the egg shape itself, but also h…
- Intriguing Science Experiments Launching on SpaceX’s Cargo Resupply Mission to
- reduce organ rejection following a transplant by using a special polymer to coat blood vessels on the organ to be transplanted. The polymer substantially diminished rejection of transplants in mice…
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