Add some buoyancy to your classroom with these NASA engineering challenges. Use NASA eClips videos and activities to engage students and make real world connections to standards-based curriculum.

1. Add Some Buoyancy to Your Classroom Becky Jaramillo Educator-in-Residence National Institute of Aerospace Children’s Engineering Council February 25, 2011

2. The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA)

3. Getting to know you . . .

4. Today’s Goals

5. Serves a societal need . . . And has tangible economic value

6. So what does that mean for us . . .

7. Less than 2,000km

9. How else might NASA learn about climate?

11. Newton’s Laws

13. Design Process Packets

14. NASA eClips

15. Scientific Method … Engineering Design Process …

18. 5E Cycle E – Engage E – Explore E – Explain E – Extend E – Evaluate Educator Guides

19. Challenges

20. Design Squad

21. BEST Beginning Engineering, Science and Technology

25. Wordle

27. Are we meeting our customers expectations?