Engineering Everywhere Curriculum Unit

Engineering
Unit Unit Overview Activities
Field
Testing Water Life on Earth requires access to clean water, and as 8
the Resource populations grow, the demand for water increases. Youth
Waters Engineering participating in this unit become water resource engineers as
they use the steps of the Engineering Design Process to
design creative ways to reuse water
Worlds Remote How do scientists and engineers gather information from 8
Apart Sensing places in the solar system that are difficult to reach? In this
Engineering unit, youth use the Engineering Design Process to design
remote sensing devices that can help scientists learn about a
newly discovered moon.
Growing Agricultural Youth will explore food production problems related to 8
Up Engineering population growth. They will then engineer a model vertical
farm as a potential solution to current food production
limitations in a fictional location: Greentown. Because vertical
farms are still a new concept with only a few prototype
examples worldwide, exploring vertical farms provides youths
with a chance to imagine what the future could bring.
Go Fish Biomechanical Youth will learn about important factors to keep in mind when 8
Engineering designing prosthetic devices as they engineer a model leg for
an elephant and a model beak for an eagle. They will then
learn the story of Winter, a dolphin with a prosthetic tail. This
will help set the context for their final design challenge,
designing a model prosthetic device for a fish. Finally, youth
will have a chance to develop the characteristics of their fish
and make an exhibit for visitors.
Outbreak Biomedical In a world where we are more connected than ever, diseases 8
Alert! Engineering can spread rapidly! Youth will become biomedical engineers
as they explore how to prepare for outbreaks of highly
contagious diseases. They will use the Engineering Design
Process to design an antiviral to stop a newly discovered virus
from infecting a model cell.

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 It's in the Materials Plants and animals have amazing ways of protecting and 8
Bag Engineering defending themselves, which can inspire engineers to design
new technologies. Youth participating in this unit will become
materials engineers as they use the Engineering Design
Process to design bioinspired gear that meets clients’ needs.

It's About Mechanical What time is it? Time is always marching forward, but it can be 8
Time Engineering difficult or impossible to keep track of it without engineered
technologies such as clocks and timers. Use your mechanical
engineering skills to design your own timekeeping
technology.
Plants to Chemical When plastic items are thrown in the trash, they can quickly 8
Plastics Engineering pile up in landfills and create a big mess! Use your chemical
engineering skills to explore problems created by traditional
plastic materials and engineer bioplastics—plastics made from
plant-based materials—as a potential solution to current
plastic problems
Don't Environmental When it rains, it pours—and when water can't soak through 8
Runoff Engineering pavement, rain collects pollution that washes into rivers, lakes,
and oceans. Use your environmental engineering skills to
redesign a city and control stormwater runoff.

Here Green Keeping homes at a comfortable temperature takes a lot of 8

Comes Engineering energy. Use your green engineering skills to insulate a model
the Sun home

Put a Lid Biomechanical When you bike, board, or play ball, you wear a helmet. But do 7
on It Engineering you know how helmets work? Use biomechanical engineering
to design your own helmet for a crash-test dummy

Food for Process Ever wonder how ice cream gets to be so creamy and 8
Thought Engineering delicious? Find out for yourself as you engineer a process for
making ice cream.

*60 minutes per activity