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www.TryEngineering.org  Teacher In-Service Program (TISP) Lesson Plans

The following has been compiled from information extracted from www.TryEngineering.org ("show all" link).   Links in table are as follows:

• Name (e.g., Adaptive Device Design) contains link to PDF version of TryEngineering HTML Introduction resident on www.ieee.org/cnc.
• PDF contains link of PDF Lesson Plan resident on www.ieee.org/cnc.
• HTML contains link to www.TryEngineering.org HTML version of Lesson Plan Introduction.
• "*" refer to EE-101 resources located at http://www.ewh.ieee.org/r3/cnc/tisp/cd/index.html that support these lesson plans.   

Lesson plans denoted with were added when original IEEE TISP Lesson Plans were merged from IEEE Pre-College Web Site into www.TryEngineering.org in July 2006.  Additional Lesson Plans are expected to be added in future; stay tuned to www.TryEngineering.org (Lesson Plans Links).

Lesson Plans listed below are shown Alphabetically by PDF name.

Adaptive Device Design   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on the engineering of adaptive or assistive devices, such as prosthetic devices, wheelchairs, eyeglasses, grab bars, hearing aids, lifts, or braces.
Design and Build a Better Candy Bag   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Demonstrate how product design differences can affect the success of a final product -- in this case a bag for holding candy. Students work in pairs to evaluate, design, and build a better candy bag.
Clipper Creations   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Develop a working model of a nail clipper. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.
Cracking the Code   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on how computerized barcodes have improved efficiency in product distribution; explores the barcoding process and engineering design.
Critical Load   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-14	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on issues civil engineers face, including critical load and how to reinforce the design of a structure to hold more weight.
EEEEK- A Mouse!   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on computer and mechanical engineering and explores how computer mice operate and how engineering provided an interface between man and machine.
Electric Switches   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-11	Lesson Focus: Demonstrate how electric circuits can be controlled with a simple switch. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.
Electric Messages: Then and Now   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-14	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on exploring electric message systems, from light signals using International Morse Code to text messaging. Students construct a simple telegraph using a battery, wires, a switch, and bulb, and explore the impact of communications on society.
Flashlights and Batteries   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-11	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on the concept of electron flow through the demonstration of electrical circuits in a flashlight, and how batteries operate.
Getting Your Bearings   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on the concept of friction and the use of ball bearings to reduce friction.
Give Me a Brake   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on brakes, force, and friction, using bicycle rim brakes to demonstrate basic braking mechanisms to stop, slow, or prevent motion.
Heart of the Matter   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on the engineering and operation of artificial heart valves, and the interface between man and machine.
Here Comes the Sun   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on solar panel design, and its application in the standard calculator. It explores how both solar panels and calculators operate and explores simple circuits using solar power.
Insulators and Conductors   -    PDF -  HTML - *	Ages 8-11	Lesson Focus: Demonstrating the concept of conducting or insulating electricity. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.
All About Electric Motors   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 10-18	Lesson Focus: Electric Motors: their principles and everyday uses. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.
Get Connected With Ohm's Law   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 10-18	Lesson Focus: Demonstrate Ohm's Law using digital multi-meters. Fun hands-on activities are presented that demonstrate Ohm's Law. Teachers use digital multi-meters to collect data that are plotted to show that voltage and current are related by linear functions for ordinary resistors and by power functions for light bulbs.
A Century of Plastics   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on how plastics of all sorts have been engineered in to everyday products over the past century, with emphasis on materials selection and engineering.
Pulleys and Force   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-11	Lesson Focus: Lesson focuses on the concept of force and the use of pulleys to reduce required force.
Build Your Own Robot Arm   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-18	Lesson Focus: Develop a robot arm using common materials. Students will explore design, construction, teamwork, and materials selection and use. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.
Series and Parallel Circuits   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-14	Lesson Focus: Demonstrate and discuss simple circuits and the differences between parallel and serial circuit design and functions. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.
Simple Machines   -    PDF  -  HTML	Ages 8-11	Lesson Focus: Simple machines: their principles and uses.
Two Button Buzzer Circuit   -    PDF  -  HTML - *	Ages 8-14	Lesson Focus: Demonstrate how two switches interact in an electrical circuit such as that used to sound a buzzer. Note: This lesson plan is designed for classroom use only, with supervision by a teacher familiar with electrical and electronic concepts.

Original IEEE Teacher In-Service Lesson Plans are located at: http://www.ieee.org/web/education/preuniversity/tispt/lessons.html.

lhbaxley@ieee.org August 2006