Community Education--Eastern Carver Co Schools

All new lessons for the new school year! Calling new and returning students! The Engineering For Kids Jr. Engineering/STEM Club brings fun, hands-on lessons every week to introduce engineering concepts at a young age. For each lesson, students focus on developing 21st Century skills such as problem solving, critical thinking and teamwork. These life skills give students the confidence to approach challenges in their lives and realize that they can succeed in almost anything! 

Session 1, 4 Weeks
Aerospace Engineering: Rocket!      
Students explore aerospace engineering, learn about principles of flight and create and launch their own slingshot rocket.
Mechanical Engineering: Mini Golf Maze
Students learn about force, gravity and friction by creating their own mini golf maze game.
Acoustic Engineering: Let's Drum
Students learn about drums, how they make sound and learn about rhythms. Students design and build their own drums.
Industrial Engineering: Fossils
Students learn about fossils, make their own cast and learn how casts and molds are useful engineering tools.

Session 2, 4 Weeks
Civil Engineering: Water Tower
Students learn about civil engineering and are challenged to build a tower that can carry water at the top.
Aerospace Engineering: Glider
Students learn about aerospace engineering, understand the principles of flight and apply them to make their own glider.
Electrical Engineering: Light Up Bug 
Students learn about simple circuits to create their own light up bug.
Industrial Engineering: Levers-Bug Catcher
Students are introduced to the lever and its properties and build their own bug catcher.

Session 3, 4 Weeks
Marine Engineering: Does Your Boat Float
Students explore the concepts of floating and sinking and design a basic boat to hold weight without sinking.
Civil Engineering: Goldilock's Bed
Students learn about and apply the concept of load distribution to construct a bed that can carry a specified weight.
Chemical Engineering: Fluffy Slime
Students learn about the properties of slime and make their own fluffy slime.
Mechanical Engineering: Ferris Wheel
Students learn about force, gravity & friction by creating their own simple ferris wheel.