Engineering Resources … On the Web

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Activities & Lesson Plans

Engineer Girl
Lesson plans that help to encourage girls and young women in math, science, engineering, and technology to pursue careers in those areas.

K-12 Engineering Lesson Plans
A list of websites from ASEE where teachers can search for classroom activities, based on subject or grade level. Also included are suggested individual lesson plans.

Making the Connection: Hands-On Activities to Introduce Students in Grades 3-12 to Engineering
Lesson plans from Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network (WEPAN), a national non-profit educational organization founded in 1990 to effect a positive change in the engineering infrastructure conducive to the academic and professional development of women and men.

TeachEngineering Activities
Over 186 stand alone activities or part of lessons or units, organized alphabetically by title and by grade level.

TeachEngineering Lesson Plans
Over 106 lesson plans and associated activities organized alphabetically by title and by grade level.

Teaching Tools: It's A Wonder!
Activity related to teaching the “Seven Wonders of the World.”

Teaching Tools: Structures
Activity related to civil engineering and designing structures

Weird Richard.com
World renowned for his hundreds of lesson plans using LEGO® (and other) hands-on materials.

Curriculum & Projects

Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education (CIESE)
CIESE sponsors and designs interdisciplinary projects for teachers throughout the world, using compelling math and science Internet-based curriculum to make engineering come alive.

Discover Engineering
Activities, experiments and project links assembled by the folks at Discover Engineering.

LEGO Projects for Math/Science Technology and Transportation
LEGO links to a variety of projects using LEGOs to teach engineering concepts.

Programs and Projects
A listing of program and projects from the Albatross Project to the Wonderful World of Weather!

Science Learning Network
Inquiry resources developed by each museum in the Science Learning Network.

TeachEngineering
Searchable web-based digital library with standards-based K-12 curricula for use by engineering faculty and K-12 teachers to teach engineering in K-12 settings.

Girls and Engineering

Celebration of Women in Engineering
Companion site for the EngineerGirl, which celebrates the achievements of women engineers and shares information on engineering careers with girls and young women. This site is for parents, teachers, engineers and others interested in helping girls discover the opportunities in engineering careers.

Girl Geeks
GirlGeeks is an online community for women and girls interested in technology and computing. GirlGeeks is provided by the Bay Area Video Coalition, a non-profit organization focused on new media education and training for underserved groups.

Engineer Girl
The Engineer Girl website is part of the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) Celebration of Women in Engineering project. This project tries to bring national attention to the opportunity that engineering represents to all people at any age, but particularly to women and girls. This site contains links to many quality resources that help to encourage girls and young women in math, science, engineering, and technology to pursue careers in those areas.

Engineering Careers
From Engineer Girl and the National Academy of Science, this site provides a listing of careers in engineering from agriculture to transportation. Contains career descriptions, starting salaries and links to additional information about each career.

Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network (WEPAN)
WEPAN works to promote positive change for women in engineering in academic and professional development. WEPAN is a national non-profit organization representing more than 600 members in 200 engineering schools, Fortune 500 companies and non-profits.

Women in Engineering Organization (WIEO)
WIEO.org was designed to create a unifying resource where people can go to find out more about women in engineering and programs in their area and across the country. Brought to you by Tufts University, WEPAN, and SWE, sponsored by a grant from GE Fund.

Web Links

American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Engineering K12 Center
The ASEE Engineering K12 Center seeks to identify and gather in one place the most effective engineering education resources available to the K-12 community, offering comprehensive data on outreach programs, profiles of “cool” engineers, and hundreds of links and related to engineering education.

ASEE Engineering Alphabet
Links to an overview of the some of the most popular fields in engineering, brought to you by ASEE.

A Sightseer's Guide to Engineering
Discover how engineering has helped to improve our lives across the country in this exciting virtual tour! Brought to you by the National Society of Professional Engineers and Engineering Week, this site features a clickable map of the United States. Within each state, a clickable list of museums and historic sites reveal numerous inventions and historic events that relate to fields in engineering.

Breaking Through
Breaking Through explores how creativity is expressed through the work of modern engineers. Case studies in this online exhibition are intended to provoke reflection about the kind of thinking that allows an engineer to break through the ordinary and give birth to something novel.

Building Big
BUILDING BIG is a great opportunity to get kids thinking about structures they see every day. Produced for PBS by WGBH out of Boston, this site uses the building of bridges, domes, skyscrapers, dams and tunnels to increase students' awareness of their built environment and the impact of technology on society, while teaching basic physical science concepts. Includes an online educators' guide, searchable data base of structures around the world, as well as a glossary of terms.

Discover Engineering
New site from the sponsors of e-week, designed for teachers and students, especially in grades 6-9.Tons of “cool” engineering resources from games to screen savers.

Discover Engineering Through Reading
A list of suggested book titles from e-week, to interest students in engineering.

Engineering Careers
From Engineer Girl and the National Academy of Science, this site provides a listing of careers in engineering from agriculture to transportation. Contains career descriptions, starting salaries and links to additional information about each career.

Engineering Go-for-it!
Bi-annual publication, sponsored by the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE), designed to attract high school students to the wide world of engineering and technology. The website contains a sample table of contents and a colorful illustration of the various fields in engineering that could be blown up and laminated for a nice poster in your classroom. Can be ordered online.

Go Engineering!
Free monthly e-newsletter that goes out to nearly 10,000 K-12 science and math educators around the country. Go Engineering! explores the many ways engineering can help educators meet the challenge of making mathematics and science come alive for students. It highlights the exciting successes of K-12 engineering outreach programs, as well as the news, events, and ideas that illuminate the exciting connections taking shape between engineering education and the K-12 classroom. The newsletter also explores how these connections are affected by funding and policy developments from Washington and across the country.

Great Engineering Achievements
From the automobile to the Internet, to laser and fiber optics, the National Academy of Engineering brings us a list of the top twenty engineering achievements of the 20th century. Learn how engineering shaped a century and changed the world! Contains a history and timeline.

Great Engineering Feats
Most people have heard of the Seven Wonders of the World, but what many don’t know is that we have engineers to thank for creating such remarkable objects. Visit this site to learn more.

IEEE Virtual Museum
A wealth of virtual exhibits from A-Z!

Lego Design and Programming System (LDAPS)
LEGO based curriculum as well as resources and activities on aeronautics, brought to you by Tufts University. Dedicated to introducing Engineering into K-14 education, Tufts works with educators to provide research related to engineering challenges in methodology, and to develop curricula, hardware and software extensions to enhance learning.

National Engineers Week
Website to mark the 54th annual National Engineers Week. Contains a wealth of resources from an engineering Q & A forum, to hands-on activities in the classroom.

Structures Around the World
This website contains eight of the nearly three dozen activities found in the publication, "The Exploratorium's Guide to Scale and Structure" written by Barry Kluger-Bell and the School in the Exploratorium. All activities in this book have been tested in elementary school classrooms. The publication also contains additional information such as overviews for each section, a glossary of terms, and an extensive bibliography.

TeachEngineering
Searchable, web-based digital library with standards-based K-12 curricula for use by engineering faculty and K-12 teachers to teach engineering in K-12 settings.

The Center for Engineering Educational Outreach at Tufts University (CEEO)
The CEEO brings together teachers, engineers, professors, and other educators to develop curriculum and lesson plans that create dynamic, interdisciplinary learning environments in K-12 classrooms.