Engineering Websites
Engineering Websites for all Grade Levels
The below chart lists useful Engineering Websites compiled by the CRS Staff. Note that this chart can be searched and/or sorted by:
- Resource Link = Website name
- Abstract = A brief description of the website organization/content
- Website Types = Student or Teacher Background, Student Online Activities, Teacher Activities, Student or Teacher Videos
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| Resource Link | Abstract | Website Types |
|---|---|---|
| 4-H Robotics Resources | The 4-H store provides teacher guides and equipment for leading robotics programs | Teacher Background |
| Bridging the Bay: Bridging the Campus | This is an online version of a document exhibit about the bridges of the Bay, the structures and politics. | Teacher Background |
| Building Big - Build a Suspension Bridge | This site has a nice activity for building a desktop suspension bridge. There are also more activities on "building Big" about building Dams, skyscrapers, domes and tunnels. | Student Background;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| City Technology | A collaboration of college faculty in Engineering and Education, public elementary teachers and children. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| Curiosity Machine | Log in is required, but is free. Students can earn "badges." The Curiosity Machine hosts collection of exciting (and sometimes very challenging) experiments and projects designed for children, along with their parents, to encourage curiosity, creativity and persistence! 1. OBSERVEwatch videos of actual engineers and scientists talking to children about the inventions and projects they work on. 2. BUILDget ideas from the videos and create your very own invention. 3. SHAREshare your adventure photos and videos, sketches and thinking. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Background |
| EduRef Science Lesson Plans | Science lessons at every grade level and topic | Teacher Activities |
| Edutopia - Blog on Robotics in Classroom | This blog post contains information on robotics programs and how to's. | Teacher Background |
| Engineer Girl | The Engineer Girl website tries to bring national attention to the opportunity engineering represents to all people at any age, but particularly to women and girls. The site is conveniently organized into 4 main areas of interest: Space, Environment, Medicine, and Communications. This makes it much easier to help girls understand how they could be controlling and preventing pollution, developing new medicines, creating advanced technologies, even exploring new worlds. | Student Background;Teacher Background |
| Engineering Adventures | Engineering Everywhere is a FREE engineering curriculum for elementary level students. Choose from seven units with fun, hands-on engineering design challenges based on real events around the world | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Student Videos;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| Engineering Design Challenges for National Engineers Week Foundation | This website has a collection of tested and true design challenges that you can do in your classroom with your students | Teacher Activities |
| Engineering Everywhere | Engineering Everywhere is a FREE engineering curriculum for middle school-aged youth in afterschool and camp programs. EE empowers youth to tackle real-world engineering problems using the engineering design process, creativity, and collaboration. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Student Videos;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| Engineering is Elementary | The Engineering is Elementary® (EiE) project fosters engineering and technological literacy among children. EiE has created a research-based, standards-driven, and classroom-tested curriculum that integrates engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics. EiE lessons not only promote K-12 science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning, but also connect with literacy and social studies. | Teacher Background |
| How Stuff Works | A great place to learn about the way all kinds of things function in the world. Learn about everything from guitars, to cruise missiles, to engines, to weather, to the cells in your own body. For parents, see "Homestuff" for great at-home learning activities. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| How to Build and Launch a Foam Rocket | In NASA's "Foam Rocket" activity, students build rubber-band-powered rockets and launch them at various angles to learn about rocket stability and trajectory. This lesson provides students with an excellent hands-on perspective on key mathematical concepts as well as data analysis and reasoning. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| HowToSmile.org | SMILE is a collection of educational materials on the web – all designed especially for those who teach school-aged kids in non-classroom settings. SMILE is a group of science museums dedicated to bringing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) out of the academic cloister and into the wider world. All organizations are resource hubs for educational programs that involve people of all ages and backgrounds. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| Lego Education | Lego provides information on their lego robotics programs for school and aferschool programs | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| MinutePhyscis | This YouTube Channel has a great assortment of short videos showing all things physical. Fun and Eduational | Student Videos;Teacher Videos;Teacher Blogs |
| NASA's resource page for Robotics Programs | This site provides links to teacher lesson plans and programs | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| PBS Design Squad | This website has activities for kids to do. Design Challenges, videos and more. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Student Videos;Teacher Activities |
| PBS Design Squad Nation | The goal of Design Squad is to give students a stronger understanding of the design process, and the connection between engineering and the things we all use in everyday life. The results of engineering are all around us: from cars to cameras and everything in between. Design Squad Nation equips kids with science and math skills, inspires them, and lays the foundation they need to participate in engineering activities later in life. Use these Design Squad Nation resources to explore the world of science and engineering. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| TEACH Engineering | The TeachEngineering digital library provides teacher-tested, standards-based engineering content for K-12 teachers to use in science and math classrooms. Engineering lessons connect real-world experiences with curricular content already taught in K-12 classrooms. Mapped to educational content standards, TeachEngineering's comprehensive curricula are hands-on, inexpensive, and relevant to children's daily lives. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| Teaching NGSS Engineering Design Through Media | Teaching Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) Engineering Design Through Media is a collection of activities and professional development resources drawn from programs such as WGBH’s Design Squad Nation and the Engineering is Elementary® project at the Museum of Science, Boston. These media-based resources illustrate and deepen teachers’ understanding of Next Generation Science Standards and help them bring engineering alive for students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. | Student Videos;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| The Catapult Project | Join 7th grade integrated science and math teacher Zara Acosta as she leads her students through a 6-week catapult design project. Students learn about the laws of motion and forces, probability, and engineering design, and then apply these principles to design their own catapult. Multiple firings of the catapult the project give students practice with data analysis, with the goal of improving the catapult's accuracy. | Teacher Activities;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| The Works List of Engineering Resources | List of links to additional engineering resources | Teacher Background |
| Try Engineering | TryEngineering offers teachers resources for students all about engineering. Here you'll find lesson plans for students of all ages that are aligned to standards, descriptions of degree fields, lists of national programs and student opportunities. | Student Background;Student Online Activities;Teacher Activities;Teacher Background |
| WatchKnowLearn.org | This website has free educational videos on all topics (including science) for all age levels. There is specifically a section for younger learners. | Student Background;Student Videos;Teacher Background;Teacher Videos |
| What’s That Stuff? | Ever wanted to know what something was made of? This site from Chemical and Engineering News gives in-depth explanations of what’s in everything from kitty litter to silly putty to asphalt. | Student Background;Teacher Background |