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	Engineering Projects View more presentations from Jonathan Dietz. Gallery of Projects
	Windpower- http://www.windpower.org/en/kids/index.htm
	Egg Drop Contest - http://www.stevespanglerscience.com/experiment/00000115
	Parachutes- Parachute Simulation- From Mars: Dead or Alive Classroom Activity- From Mars-Dead or Alive Model Rocket Parachute Patterns Richard Nakka's Parachute Design Pag Coffee filter Parachute Design: Parachute Challenge Handout Science of Parachutes
	Build a Motor- Detailed Instructions (MIT CSME) How to build and how it works (video) Video of Motor Explanation How a DC Motor Works
	Design Squad Design Squad Projects Nate Ball Answers Your Questions
	Estes Rocketry Rocketry 101 Rocket Technical Manual Igniters Rocket Diagrams Newton's Laws of Motion
	Water Rocketry
	Fiber-Optic Communication Phototransistor circuit
	Hovercraft
	Hot Air Balloons Video- How Hot-Air Balloons Work Calculating the Lift of a Hot-Air Balloon Wikipedia- Hot-Air Balloons Montgolfier Brothers Lifting Power of Helium http://www.cockeyed.com/science/helium/helium.shtml Up, Up, and Away Spherical Calculator Air weighs about 1.2 Kg per cubic meter. Helium weighs less than 0.2 Kg per cubic meter.
	Pinhole Cameras How Cameras Work Youtube- How Camera Obscuras Work Youtube- How CCD's Work Youtube- Making a Pinhole Camera
	Make a Kaleidoscope- http://www.optics.arizona.edu/Academics/KaleidoscopeHowtoMakeAKaleidoscope.htm
	Geodesic Domes Geodesic Dome Construction Assembling a Geodesic Dome Wikipedia-Geodesic Domes Geometry of Domes Dome Calculator Newspaper Domes

	Paper Airplane Designs: Paper Airplane Site 1 Airplane Design Video Instruction Manual How to Make a Paper Airplane- A general introduction Paper Airplanes: Offers designs for beginners, intermediates and experts Best Paper Airplanes: Offers ten different airplane designs with excellent folding illustration guides 10 Paper Airplanes: Offers an animated folding guide for ten different designs Zurqui/com: Offers instructions and pictures on building the best flying paper airplane Fun Paper Airplanes: Offers downloadable templates for paper airplane designs The Science of Flight
	Paper Making and Recycling Paper Making Pour Method Homemade Rag Paper Commercial Paper Making Video Paper Money
	Mousetrap Cars MIT- Center for Materials Science and Engineering Watercraft Putt-Putt Steamboat MIT Sea Perch Submarine
	Watercraft- from Design Squad






Revised March 2009 by Jonathan Dietz, dietzj@mail.weston.org

Technology and Engineering Activities