National Engineers Week Classroom Activities 1990-2002

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1. Elementary School

• Build An Air Powered Car (.pdf 106k)
• A Metal to Remember (.pdf 646k)
• Air Push (.pdf 194k)
• Creative Cardboard Engineering (.pdf 258k)
• Dome Home (.pdf 243k)
• Electromagnetic Fishing Pole (.pdf 501k)
• Exploration- Exploring New Frontiers (.pdf 372k)
• Human Suspension Bridge (.pdf 342k)
• Make a Vegetable Oil Tanker (.pdf 81k)
• Materials Science (.pdf 377k)
• Oscilloscope (.pdf 479k)
• Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (.pdf 401k)
• Running on Sunshine (.pdf 910k)
• Sound and Music (.pdf 257k)
• Star Scraper (.pdf 195k)
• Tools of the Trade (.pdf 107k)
• Wetlands (.pdf 399k)
• Machines and Tools (.pdf 492k)

2. Middle School

• How Does An Airplane Fly? (.pdf 138k)
• A Sample of Slinky Science (.pdf 69k)
• Catalysis: Change for the Better (.pdf 300k)
• Exploration - Rockets Away (.pdf 577k)
• Exploration -The Explorer's Aid (.pdf 113k)
• Exploration-Spaceship to Mars (.pdf 172k)
• First you see it Then You Hear It (.pdf 106k)
• Here It Comes Again (.pdf 124k)
• How Does a Computer Work (.pdf 361k)
• Human Arch (.pdf 405k)
• Interactive Projects 1 (.pdf 119k)
• Machines and Tools (.pdf 314k)
• Magnetic Personalities (.pdf 133k)
• Mousetrap Powered Vehicle (.pdf 80k)
• Rocket Transportation (.pdf 107k)
• Technology of the Deep (.pdf 144k)
• The Lemon Battery Challenge (.pdf 500k)
• The Microprocessor Peanut Butter & Jelly Activity (.pdf 330k)
• Wash Out (.pdf 92k)
• Which Material Would You Choose (.pdf 375k)

3. High School

• An Activity from Newton's Apple (.pdf 53k)
• Cleaning up Lake Barcroft (.pdf 150k)
• Disposable Diaper Dissection (.pdf 23k)
• Exploration-Power from Ocean Waves (.pdf 161k)
• Human Energy and Space Fitness (.pdf 159k)
• Interactive Projects (.pdf 130k)
• Making Glass (.pdf 98k)
• Product Dissection An Engineer's Eye View of Your Toaster (.pdf 87k)
• Speaking with Light (.pdf 79k)
• The Trouble with Alien Plants (.pdf 126k)

National Engineers Week thanks Leslie McMaster of the Austin, Texas, EWEEK Committee for her invaluable help with these archived activities.