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Engineering and Society for Youth (EASY) - appling science to benefit the global community

Scientists ask questions about the world around us, whereas engineers modify the world to adapt it to our needs. Scientific inquiry is concerned with what is, while engineering design is focused on what can be. [1]

also Engineering

Lessons

• Amazon Mission is an eighth-grade unit that is presented in the context of helping indigenous people in Brazil. It engages students in designing an insulated carrier that will keep medicine cool, a water filtration system, and a strategy for tempering the spread of an influenza virus.

• Working Together to Live Together
• Design From Nature
• Solar Water Heater

Learn more...

• Engineering - curriculum projects - specific examples reviewed for inclusion in the K-12 Engineering report - some "society" themes
• Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics ON THE AIR!
• Green Roof Resources