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
Measuring Current
Measuring Voltage
Soldering
Propagating radio Waves
Building a radio tower
Receiving Radio waves
Vacuum Tubes and thermonic emission
Experimenting with making a wet cell
Proving Carbon dioxide from a chemical reaction
Simple Distillation
Energy Transfer and efficiency
Solar Energy Transfer
Energy Transformations in Transformers
Archimedes Pump
The Noria
Simple Plunger Pump
Straw Motor Pump
Centrifugal Pump
Geyser Pump
Modeling Arthropods
BattleBots I
Battlebots 2
Line of Force
Levitating Magnets
Floating Magnets
Finding Iron in Sand
Magic Pencil
Interactions of a Magnet and a coil
Making a speaker
Bell’s Telephone
The Motor-Generator interaction
The Telegraph