Audience
Educators
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Informal Education
Subject
Engineering Design, Physical Science, Technology, Optics, Remote Sensing
Type
Lesson Plans / Activities, Mobile Apps
Introduce participants to engineering and an eight-step engineering design process as they work together to investigate different technologies used in the field of remote sensing — periscopes, optical filters and light detection and ranging (lidar) sensors — and then engineer their own remote sensing devices to solve one of the research problems posed in the unit. At the end of the unit, participants will present what they learned about remote sensing and the engineering design process.
Use this unit for afterschool or out-of-school-time programs or other informal education settings. This unit includes a downloadable educator’s/facilitator’s guide, scoring rubric, a parent letter, a video, iOS app, and a lab notebook. Some resources are available in Spanish.
This activity is brought to you by a partnership with NASA and the Museum of Science, Boston’s “Engineering Is Everywhere” curricula through NASA’s Science Activation program. “Engineering is Elementary” is a part of The National Center for Technological Literacy (NCTL) at the Museum of Science, Boston.
More “Engineering Is Everywhere” units:
Testing the Waters: Engineering a Water Reuse Process (Grades 6-8)
In Good Hands: Engineering Space Gloves (Grades 3-5)
Liftoff: Engineering Rockets and Rovers (Grades 3-5)
The Sky’s the Limit: Engineering Flight Technology (Grades 3-5)