The videos below show how to make and test various technologies and how to think about engineering solutions to practical problems.  Links for each give further curricular ideas on how to use these options in the classroom. 

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ROBOTICS AND MECHANICAL SYSTEMS

Simple Actuators

Pneumatic Systems

Measuring Forces

BASIC ELECTRICITY

Measuring Current

Measuring Voltage

Soldering

RADIO WAVES

Propagating radio Waves

Building a radio tower

Receiving Radio waves

ELECTRONICS

Vacuum Tubes and thermonic emission

Experimenting with making a wet cell

GASES AND LIQUIDS

Proving Carbon dioxide from a chemical reaction

Simple Distillation

ENERGY

Energy Transfer and efficiency

Solar Energy Transfer

Energy Transformations in Transformers

MOVING WATER

Archimedes Pump

The Noria

Simple Plunger Pump

Straw Motor Pump

Centrifugal Pump

Geyser Pump

ANIMATRONICS

Modeling Arthropods

BattleBots I

Battlebots 2

MAGNETS

Line of Force

Levitating Magnets

Floating Magnets

Finding Iron in Sand

Magic Pencil

ELECTROMAGNETS and INDUCTION

Interactions of a Magnet and a coil

Making a speaker

Bell’s Telephone

The Motor-Generator interaction

The Telegraph