ETS1.A: Engineering Design

Could Shewies, a funky bacteria, be a sustainable future clean energy source? This lesson provides an overview of the electrical current created by "Shewies" and how you can use a MudWatt to create a Microbial Fuel Cell.

his activity uses a qualitative nitrate test to observe results of some conversions and transformations in the nitrogen cycle.

Students design and build their own model levees.

Students learn about rain garden construction, and eventually student groups create personal rain gardens within surrounding community.

Activity demonstrating the concept of perimeter and how this relates to civil engineering principles