Activities & Lesson Plans
Here at The Engineering Place, we have compiled some of our favorite resources for teachers to use in their classrooms. We hope these materials are helpful to your students as they explore the vast field of engineering.
LESSON PLAN LIBRARIES
Two Engineering Collections:
General Engineering Activities & Lessons: A diverse collection showcasing the many types of engineering challenges, problems, and real-world solutions engineers explore using everyday materials.
K–5 Literacy-Integrated Lessons: Engineering lessons built around children’s literature, using storybooks to introduce engineering concepts and inspire students to design, create, and solve problems.
Browse by Grade Level Instead?
If you’d rather start from your students’ grade band and work outward to activities, the Engineering Resources hub has dedicated Elementary, Middle School, and High School pages with grade-specific framing and additional recommended resources for students and families.
Usage & Attribution
The materials created by The Engineering Place are free for use but must be appropriately credited to The Engineering Place and cannot be used for commercial purposes.
Questions, concerns, or comments? Email us.
Other Helpful Sites for Educators
Beyond our own materials, these are established, education-focused organizations worth bookmarking:
Youth Engineering Solutions
Engage your students and build the persistence, collaboration, and problem-solving skills they need to succeed in school and beyond. For 23 years, Youth Engineering Solutions (YES) has partnered with schools to bring high-quality engineering learning to millions of students nationwide.
Engineer Teen
Career-exploration content aimed directly at teens — a good recommendation for high schoolers weighing engineering as a college major.
Try Engineering
IEEE’s K-12 hub, with a searchable database of lesson plans by grade level, subject, and time required — useful when you need an activity that fits a specific class period.
Teach Engineering
A large, standards-aligned digital library of K-12 engineering curricula developed by a consortium of universities — one of the most established resources of its kind, useful if you need to document standards alignment for your lesson plans.
Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN)
Focused on broadening participation in engineering — helpful if you’re specifically looking to encourage girls and young women toward engineering pathways.
Engineering Tomorrow
Global engineering education content connecting classroom learning to real-world sustainability and energy challenges.
Related Pages
- Want a visual framework to teach alongside these activities? See the Engineering Design Process.
- Looking for professional development or research opportunities instead? See Teacher Programs.