Will Baxter - Analysis of STEAM of Integration by

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-09 02:24:23 UTC

This STEAM Lesson is interdisciplinary. It combines physics and math. Students make their own paper airplanes. They first learn about the different parts that make up an airplane (physics). Then they throw their paper airplanes a certain number of times and record the distance and time in the air for each throw (mathematics/statistics). This is interdisciplinary because it combines physics and math knowledge.

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wbaxter13 — 2025-09-09 02:25:46 UTC

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 00:10:28 UTC

In this lesson, students learn about pollutants and about different water filtration systems used to filter bacteria out from water. The lesson has an engineering piece to it (the design of water filtration systems) as well as a science piece (learning about water pollutants, filtration, and aeration). Students first learn about water pollutants, then they learn about common designs for water filtration systems. This lesson relates to transdisciplinary teaching because students get to design their own water filtration systems to help eliminate water pollutants from the environment. They test their filtration systems, record their observations, and make adjustments, similar to engineers.

Link: The Dirty Water Project: Design-Build-Test Your Own Water Filters - Activity - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 00:21:33 UTC

In this lesson, students learn about distance and displacement, and therefore making it an intradisciplinary lesson (physics). Students first practice measuring distance and displacement. They then write on a map to find the distance of the route they take to school as well as the displacement between their house and their school. Then, students are challenged to use distance and displacement to make a maze that one of their peers has to solve. During this lesson, students learn about robotics engineers use digital map tools to generate routes between numerous places.

Link: Learning Distance and Displacement - Activity - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 00:31:13 UTC

In this lesson, students learn about tension and compression and how these two forces affect the structure of a building. Students' task is to build a tower out of 20 uncooked spaghetti noodles and 30 small marshmallows. Students are challenged to think about how they can create a balanced amount of compression and tension in their tower's structure. To do this, they must partake in trial and error to discover common designs that achieve this. This lesson only teaches compression and tension, making it intradisciplinary (physics).

Link: Leaning Tower of Pasta - Activity - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 00:41:57 UTC

In this lesson, students learn about constraints that are considered by engineers when designing roller coasters. Then they design their own roller coasters out of pipe insulation and tape. They use marbles as the roller coasters carts, with each group getting a different type of marble (wooden, glass, etc.). This lesson incorporates physics as well as mathematics. Not only do they have to consider kinetic and potential energy (physics), but they also have to consider the angles of their hills and loops (mathematics) They also have to consider the steepness (slope) of their hills. Therefore, this lesson is interdisciplinary.

Link: Building Roller Coasters - Activity - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 00:50:35 UTC

In this lesson, students learn what a virus is and how it can spread from person to person. They particularly then learn about AIDS and HIV and how scientists haven't been able to develop a cure for these viruses. Then they participate in an activity in which they "share bodily fluids" and therefore, "spread a virus." At the end of the activity, they must figure out who was infected with the virus first. This lesson is an intradisciplinary lesson, as it combines science and engineering.

Link: Tracking a Virus - Activity - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 00:55:09 UTC

In this lesson, students learn about friction and how it affects tires on the road. They learn that snow and ice create more friction and, therefore, cause cars to slide. They then partake in activity in which they observe the level of friction on different surfaces (wax paper, sandpaper, etc.). They then learn about friction in literacy. This lesson is interdisciplinary, as it combines physics with English/writing.

Link: Red Light, Green Light: Forces of Friction, Roads & Tires - Lesson - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 01:00:47 UTC

In this lesson, students design their own parking garage, thus acting as architects and engineers. They must first map out their garage using blueprints, and then they must design an outline for the garage using a variety of materials (materials may vary). They are given constraints (limitations) for their parking garage. They first, however, learn about what architects and engineers do. This lesson is interdisciplinary, as it mainly focuses on the engineering process of designing a structure.

Link: Architects and Engineers: Working Together to Design Structures - Lesson - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 01:04:58 UTC

In lesson, students design and program robotic arm to pick up and carry a soda can. They first learn about robotics engineers as well as common designs for robotic arms. Students are provided with syringes that shoot out hydraulic fluid, bolts and screw, and scraps of wood. They learn how hydraulic pumps work and how they can use the fluid to put the arm in motion. This lesson is intradisciplinary, as it mainly focuses on engineering.

Link: Hydraulic Arm Challenge - Activity - TeachEngineering

wbaxter13 — 2025-09-10 01:09:28 UTC

In this lesson, students learn about the lungs and how they bring in air. They learn names of important muscles and inside organs that have a role in the breathing process. They then learn about common breathing devices that engineers build to help those who have breathing issues. They are then challenged to design their own breathing device out of water balloons, a plastic bottle, and 2 straws. This lesson is interdisciplinary, as it combines science (learning about the lungs/anatomy) and engineering.

Link: Creating Model Lungs: Just Breathe! - Informal Learning Activity - TeachEngineering