Engineering Resources

Lesson plans and videos for your classroom

Forces and materials play a big part in extreme sports and engineering. Combine these into one crazy fun activity, and you get Barbie bungee!

Barbie Bungee

Students build boats to explore how forces like weight and buoyancy can be manipulated by changing the shape and size of an object

Boats

This activity highlights the need to construct resilient buildings that can withstand natural disasters, and to prevent the unending cycle of destruction and reconstruction

Earthquake-Resistant Engineering

This activity aims to increase student awareness of food safety practices so that they know another way of staying healthy and fit

Food Safety

In this activity, students make kites with different materials and styles to explore the elements of a good kite

Kites

Students design and make machines that can wrestle opponents out of the ring, create art pieces, and jiggle and dance their way into their hearts!

Machines

Students work together to design and build a musical instrument made from recycled materials, working through both the ‘Generate’ and ‘Produce’ parts of the design process

Musical Instruments

With this activity, students to create a more inclusive classroom and solve movement challenges from Health & PE

Para-Sport

The activity progresses to the process of recycling paper, which is the ‘Produce’ part of the design process, using selected materials to produce students’ own recycled paper

Recycled Paper

Students experience the empowering process of product design, learn about the nature of polymers and how to manipulate them to create a new material

Slime