Educational Resources: Engineering

Explore educational resources for K–12 classrooms focused on engineering, including lesson plans and activities, videos and images.

Lessons and activities

TeachEngineering

For educators (grades K–12)

Engineers have a hand in designing, creating or modifying nearly everything around us. Find out more in this growing collection of 1900+ free, teacher-tested, standards-based K-12 lessons and activities that engage students and enhance learning through hands-on engineering.

Engineering Go For It (eGFI)

For educators, parents and students (grades K–12)

The eGFI website offers information about engineering careers and how to pursue them, including profiles of engineering students and professionals. Teachers can find lesson plans, hands-on activities and professional development opportunities.

Engineering is Elementary

For educators (grades K–8)

A research-based, standards-driven and classroom-tested curriculum that integrates engineering and technology concepts and skills with elementary science topics.

TryEngineering

For educators and students (grades 4–12)

TryEngineering informs students, teachers, school counselors and parents about engineering and what engineers do. It contains information and games about the field, lists student programs and opportunities, contains a university finder and has lesson plans.

Morphing Matter for Girls

For parents, educators and students (grades 9–12)

This initiative brings fun, hands-on STEM exploration activities to girls and encourages them to design creative projects with morphing materials, in the contexts of fashion, food, ecology and more.

The Museum of Science: Centers for Public Science Learning

For educators (grades K–12)

The Museum of Science provides a vast array of information for educators on workshops, professional development, curricula for grades K-12 and access to the Museum's Lyman Library.

Videos

What is engineering?

Flying cars, Earth-sized atmospheric filters, quick access to clean water, phones with holograms, and more! Who can make these things happen? Engineers! So what does it take to be an engineer? What qualities, strengths and interests? Hear it from engineering students: What attracted them to the field and what drives them to make the world a better place?

What is Mechanical Engineering?

How is the future changing for mechanical engineers with new autonomous/automated labs? How does materials science impact engineering? From the basics of what a mechanical engineer does to the benefits of autonomous labs, listen to Keith Brown from Boston University.

What is a robot?

What could be a robot? How is soft robotics changing our view point of what is considered robotics? Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, an engineer working in robotics at Yale University, discusses her work in soft robotics.

Microplastics: Why you should care

Learn what microplastics are, and the work engineers and other researchers are doing to filter them from the environment and create new, environmentally friendly versions of plastic.