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 February 14-20, 2010, marks the 20th anniversary of National Engineers Week. Engineers use their imagination and skill to design things we use every day. The roads we travel, the energy we use, and the technology we use for work and play are all possible because of engineers.
Thinkfinity has a well designed collection of lessons and activities to help your students explore this rewarding career that helps build and transform the world in which we live.
Science NetLinks Engineers Week Feature
29 Lessons, tools, podcasts and other resources from our science expert, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, created to introduce engineering concepts and careers to students of all ages.
Break It Down
Use ramps, switches and gears to move a marble toward the lever that ultimately raises the flagpole, and learn a lot about systems and systems design along the way.
Deanne Bell believes engineering is for girls
Deanne Bell, engineer and co-host of PBS's "Design Squad," talks about inspiring inventive creativity in young people, especially girls. Listen to the podcast or read the transcript.
Jean Engineering
No one can live long without water. But in places where the drinking water is contaminated by toxic waste from mining or chemical processing plants, people don't live long with it, either. In this Science Update, science reporter Bob Hirshon speaks with a researcher who has come up with a novel way to clean up the poisonous drinking water of a small community.
The Bridge Over the Hellespont
Xerxes's Phoenician and Egyptian engineers built two bridges across the Hellespont, the waterway between Asia Minor (modern Turkey) and Greece. This waterway also connects the Black Sea to the Aegean part of the Mediterranean Sea. With this interactive, build your own bridge to cross the Hellespont!
Wheelchairs
Generally, the developed countries export new technology to poorer, developing ones. But when it comes to wheelchairs, it can work the other way around. This story looks at an organization that counts on some of the world's poorest countries to develop some of the most innovative new ideas.
Invention Playhouse
Explore the playful side of invention and the inventive side of play in the Invention Playhouse, part of the Invention at Play online exhibition from the Lemelson Center at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. Through the use of four interactive games, students will learn how play-the ordinary and everyday "work of childhood"-connects to the creative impulse of both historic and contemporary inventors.
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