Preschool - 3rd Grade Engineering Design Resources

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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon

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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon

Third Grade

Writing

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon

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Design Challenge: Inflate a Balloon

In this exciting design challenge, your child will use design thinking skills to create a mixture that can inflate a balloon.

Third Grade

Writing

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

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Design Challenge: Gumdrop Towers

In this fun design challenge, your child will get creative with making structures out of toothpicks and gumdrop candies.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

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Design Challenge: Making a Boat

In this activity, your child will be asked to create a boat that can successfully float while holding 25 pennies.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Make your own greenhouse - out of a balloon! Your child will learn how greenhouses work as they plant radish seeds and watch them grow.

Kindergarten

Life Science

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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute

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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute

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Design Challenge: Making a Parachute

In this design challenge, your child will create a parachute for a small toy using typical household items.

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

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Design Challenge: Building a Bridge

In this exciting and empowering challenge, your child will construct a bridge using marshmallows and toothpicks!

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

First Grade

Reading

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

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Design Challenge: Creating Animal Habitats

In this design thinking activity, your child will choose an animal to research, learn about the animal’s habitat, and then replicate the animal's habitat using household items.

First Grade

Reading

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

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Design Challenge: Making a Catapult

In this activity, your child will be challenged to use simple materials to create a catapult for a small, lightweight toy.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide

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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide

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Design Challenge: Making a Water Slide

Have your child kick off their summer vacation by making a miniature water slide!

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

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Design Challenge: Creating a Cup Tower

In this activity, your child will be challenged to make a tower using paper cups.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

In this activity, you child will learn about how heat changes food. On the next sunny day, head outdoors to make a treat in an outside oven! Here's how:

Pre-K

Measurement

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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg

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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg

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Design Challenge: Glowing Bouncy Egg

In this activity, your child will transform an egg into a glowing, bouncy "ball" that they can play with.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine

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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine

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Design Challenge: Make a Rube Goldberg Machine

In this hands-on design challenge your child will make their very own Rube Goldberg Machine.

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Siphon With Suction and Gravity!

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Siphon With Suction and Gravity!

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

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Siphon With Suction and Gravity!

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Siphon With Suction and Gravity!

Your preschooler can learn how to siphon water with just two bottles and a plastic tube in this fun, educational science activity.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Here's a simple science activity that will help your child better understand how wells bring us water.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven

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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven

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Design Challenge: Making a Solar Oven

In this fun activity, your child will create their very own solar oven to bake s'mores!

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Egg Drop

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Design Challenge: Egg Drop

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

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Design Challenge: Egg Drop

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Design Challenge: Egg Drop

In this activity, your child will be challenged to create a device that protects an egg when it is dropped from a height of about 10 feet.

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

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Design Challenge: Marble Labyrinths

In this activity your child will create their very own marble maze!

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket

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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket

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Design Challenge: Making a Bottle Rocket

In this design challenge, your child will make a bottle rocket using typical household items.

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Tin can phones offer something modern versions don't—a fun project to make with a friend, and a dramatic illustration of vibration and sound waves.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet

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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet

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Design Challenge: Letters of the Alphabet

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Chair Design Challenge

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Chair Design Challenge

Second Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

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Chair Design Challenge

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Chair Design Challenge

In this activity, your student will be invited to build a chair out of building blocks that is designed to meet the specific size and shape of a small doll or toy figure.

Second Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Make a periscope with milk cartons and mirrors! This preschool activity is great for playing secret agent and learning simple physics.

Pre-K

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.

In this activity, students will think about the form and function of household objects as they compare and contrast kitchen serving spoons of various sizes and designs.

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Introduce students to the term algorithm using the familiar story of The Three Little Pigs. In this lesson, students will develop an algorithm, or a step-by-step sequence of instructions, for building a house made out of bricks.

Engineering and Science Inquiry

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this lesson, students will create a set of instructions for navigating a life-size maze.

In this lesson, students will create a set of instructions for navigating a life-size maze.

First Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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The Mystery of the Missing Instructions

Lesson Plan

The Mystery of the Missing Instructions

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

In this lesson, students will solve a design problem and practice troubleshooting as they create a list of instructions for putting together a tent.

Lesson Plan

The Mystery of the Missing Instructions

Lesson Plan

The Mystery of the Missing Instructions

In this lesson, students will solve a design problem and practice troubleshooting as they create a list of instructions for putting together a tent.

Third Grade

Engineering and Science Inquiry

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Preschool - 3rd Grade Engineering Design Resources

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Preschool - 3rd Grade Engineering Design Resources