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

Engineering basics with paper, ruler, pencil, scissors. Great starter for getting kids to build low impact high success rate paper air skimmers - they bowl them down the hallway/gym (social dist pretty easy) and measure their tosses. Starts with ruler instructions and ruler game, glue gun game and then they are on their own with the plans - interpreting the plans is the goal. I have included ruler game, glue gun game, my own Google Sheets video. The plans are on the last page - I recommend pr