Click2Engineering is a website from University of Nebraska, Lincoln that is designed to transform out-of-school time engineering education and support professional learning for educators. Tufts CEEO supported the design and implementation of Click2Engineering.
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Build a robot that mimics an animal and use machine learning to train it to recognize and collect food while avoiding poison.
Machine learning activities for LEGO Education SPIKE Prime.
AI Puppy is a series of LEGO Education SPIKE Prime activities designed to teach students about AI.
Join us to chat with Stacy Klein-Gardner, Executive Director of e4usa, and Jennifer Kouo, Director of Professional Learning at e4usa, about designing for neurodiverse learners.
Kelsey Rogers, a Part-time Lecturer with the Tufts Department of Mechanical Engineering, will share ways to incorporate music engineering into any STEM classroom.
CEEO Director Merredith Portsmore discusses Novel Engineering in this Webinar from fall 2024.
Authors Elissa Milto and Merredith Portsmore discuss their new book "Introducing Engineering in K-8 Settings"
Chemcial Engineering resources for middle school students
Engineering with Bricks is a curation of resources for LEGO® Education robotics platforms, including those created by CEEO.
In March 2026, Tufts CEEO will host an in-person one-day conference in collaboration with Acera Education Innovation.
A resource for teachers to facilitate whole-class discussions about engineering design activities.
White Mountain Science, Inc. shares their experience of starting and growing a STEM education non-profit.
Based in Littleton, NH, White Mountain Science, Inc. reaches students all over the region with their fleet of mobile STEM labs.
The PEBL Toolkit is a set of ten activities focused on creating a student-directed, hands-on playful learning experience using engineering, scientific and mathematical concepts. There are activities and facilitator guides.
Student-facing engineering activities using low-cost supplies, like craft materials and recyclables.
Custom built Smart Motor with a servo motor and wide array of sensors to quickly do robotics activity and start discussion about AI and Machine Learning.
Tufts CEEO intern team developed a set of YouTube videos for teachers and students to get started with Arduino in Rwanda and Nepal.
Facilitating Productive Conversations within a Play-Based Learning Pedagogy is a slide deck for professional development developed in collaboration with Teach for Nepal.
Student-facing placemat activities to learn how to use Sphero BOLT.
Project SYNCERE and Tufts CEEO co-designed student-facing activity cards to help students use Makey Makey to learn about circuits.
Student-facing placemat activities to learn how to use Cubelets.
Introductory activities to learn basic circuitry.
MAP MATS: Playful Adventures in math and science is a set of activities that supports play-based learning. There are twenty-five MAP MATS activities which foster play-based learning in math, engineering, and science.
The Constructopedia is a building guide for common mechanisms, like pulleys and hinges, that uses craft and recycled materials.
LEGO® Education SPIKE™ Prime based Smart Motor
The KARMA Manual is a collection of teaching and learning ideas, experiences and materials that will provide a framework to underpin development of further learning related to culturally integrated Engineering Design and Coding.
Native TEA (Technology, Engineering, Arts) lessons integrate learning about advanced technology and Navajo culture.
Wio Terminal based Smart Motor
Developed in partnership with TERC: Robots In Science (RIS) Teachers introduced their students to a robotics kit prior to engaging in their integrated projects. The project developed the following resources to support student learning.
In the “Reservoir Rescue” unit, 5th grade students explore key concepts of earth science and engineering in the context of a polluted, reservoir-feeding waterway in their local community.
Developed in partnership with TERC: Lesson seeds are exemplars of lesson ideas developed and implemented by teachers participating in the Robots in Science project.
Outreach activities to support the engagement with the science, engineering and ethics of cellular agriculture.
Smart Motors are trainable standalone robotics system that lower the barriers to entry into robotics as well as provide avenue for richer explorations.
Developed in partnership with TERC: these Robots In Science materials support teacher design and enactment of computational thinking-enhanced science units.
Developed in partnership with TERC: The Robots In Science project developed classroom resources to scaffold CT integration. These resources can be modified to support any of the lesson seeds above.
In the “Safer Stopover Sites for Migratory Birds” unit students explore core ideas of physical science, life science and engineering in the context of mitigating light and sound pollution from the highway in their local community.
In the “Motion and Design of Accessible Playgrounds” unit, 3rd grade students will explore core ideas of balanced and unbalanced forces, changes in motion, and interactions between magnets.
Students engage in both science inquiry and engineering design as they gain understanding of a specific problem, working through a series of lessaon, and work toward a design challenge that where they plan and build solutions to improve a subway vehicle.
In the “Make Way for Trains” unit (MWT), students explore key concepts of geotechnical engineering in the context of a train track expansion for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
In the “Displaced Animal Rescue” unit, 3rd grade students explore core ideas about animals and their environments, particularly how changes to habitat affect the ability of animals to survive.
Website to share tools and resources created as part of a research project to help STEM outreach programs think about ways to amplify their efforts and work promote STEM.
Professional development to give educators first-had experience doing Novel Engineering. Contact elissa.milto@tufts.edu
Introducing Engineering in K-8 Settings outlines what hands-on, student-centered engineering can look like in the classroom giving teachers background and practical information to do engineering in their own classrooms.
Robotics Playground is an experimental library of placemat instructions for robotics activities designed to maximize solution diversity and foster student-driven learning.
Professional development to give educators first-had experience doing LEGO robotics and engineering. Contact elissa.milto@tufts.edu
Professional development to give educators first-hand experience introducing robotics in K-8 classrooms. Contact elissa.milto@tufts.edu
Introducing Engineering to K-8 Students will provide you with the tools you need to incorporate engineering design into your classroom.
Novel Engineering will both introduce your students to an exciting integrated curriculum and support you as you use it in your own elementary or middle school classroom.
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