In this activity, students will gain an understanding of the engineering design process by designing and observing different containers that slow down the process of heat transfer.

In this activity, students will use a variety of materials to attempt to clean up a simulated oil spill.

NASA employs many materials engineers to develop and test every piece of equipment (including spacesuits) that astronauts use.

In this activity, students will create their own insulating “ice chambers” and then test them against the models made by their classmates.

A space helmet is vital for any astronaut traveling into space.

After learning about the amount of paper that the United States uses every year, students will observe how homemade recycled paper is made. Upon examining the result, students will be challenged to refine this process in order to produce a paper product.

Learn about the smith shop in this virtual field trip at the This is the Place Historical Park.

Students will use a life cycle audit to evaluate a product’s environmental impact on society by proposing design changes in order to reduce the negative impact it could have.

Unit operators supervise the flow of oil and petroleum products through pipes in their refinery.

The Algal Turf Scrubber (ATS) is one of the marine ecology field’s best-kept secrets.

In this episode of Crash Course Kids, Sabrina shows us how Material Scientists are working on these two things today.

In this special episode of Sidedoor, we team up with the history podcast Backstory to explore two less-typical applications of the explosive: the artistic blasting at Mount Rushmore, and how anarchists used dynamite to advance their political agenda in 1886.