A hands-on unit where students investigate how plants and animals move and use those strategies to inspire their own engineered devices.
Join Dr. Ethan Danahy for a walkthrough of the new LEGO Education Python package.
Join us for an interactive overview of the newly redesigned TeachEngineering.org.
Join Elissa Milto for an overview of Tufts’ new Novel Engineering micro-credential courses for K-8 educators.
What makes an engineering school a good fit for you?
A four part blog series on how to run a LEGO robotics summer camp.
Placemat activities for the new LEGO Education Computer Science and AI kits.
A set of Google Slides teachers can use as digital engineering notebooks, with cards for capturing ideas, tests, and final designs.
Designing Biomimetic Robots is an interdisciplinary middle school curriculum that combines science, engineering, and computing through hands-on robotics challenges inspired by the natural world.
Earn a Tufts University Microcredential in Novel Engineering in just 10 hours! Learning to integrate engineering and literacy through this online and self-paced course.
A progressive series of activities is intended to help students get started using the LEGO CS & AI kits.
A progressive series of activities to help students get started using the LEGO Education Computer Science and AI kits and coding platform.
Three music engineering activities - build a pocket panpipe, an electric guitar, and a speaker.
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.
Learn about LEARN @ TuftsCEEO!
Tufts is launching a microcredential for Novel Engineering. Join us to learn more!
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
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.
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.
A slide deck for a professional development for teachers
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.
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.
Instructions on how to build a trainable Smart Motor with a Wio Terminal based
Developed in partnership with TERC: Robots In Science (RIS) Teachers introduced their students to a robotics kit prior to engaging in their integrated projects.
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.
Curriculum for 3rd grade students explore core ideas of balanced and unbalanced forces, changes in motion, and interactions between magnets.
This series of lessons work toward a design challenge that where students 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
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 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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