Pre Engineering Distance Learning Remote Projects

Here is a resilience project. Kids build and fail and retest through their natural curiosity with low risk resource waste. Specifically designed to get my students off of their screens, this is a linked and video instructional on making paper airplanes. There are step by step instructions for 7 different designs with additional links to details. Students definitely appreciate the option to choose their own design. The launcher option is certainly advanced, with about 15% of my students pu

My students really enjoyed getting off the computer and using their space in an inventive way. Our extended fall lockdown turned into pretty cool challenges - buy-in is with making a mess and smashing things into the wall, in the name of research. "I am doing a school project! Friction, tension, mass and some engineering design are crosscut in all the problem solving.Students choose a character/action figure, design a cart and zipline.Add some youtube video examples - I can't use my flipgr

Start Quarantine Engineering with a nice soft, everyone can do it exercise. 7 day project containing games, video links, Archimedes principle basics and written directions ( modified for less stress). Easy project for students to test, experiment, modify and use Google sheets without too much data gathering pressure. Linked and open Basic Directions + Data Sheet embedded in Slides Have fun.