NHERI EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES

Lesson Plans and Resources for Educators

Find out more about Engineering Education from Jeremy Waisome, Instructional Assistant Professor at the University of Florida featured in the DesignSafe Radio podcast episode

Resources Overview

K-12 resources
Educators in NHERI’s 14-member, NSF-funded research network provide K-12 programming that forges pathways in STEM for K-12 students. Below find classroom resources and summer learning opportunities for kids— as well as STEM training opportunities for K-12 teachers.

Higher-ed resources
NHERI network facilities offer learning modules and summer learning opportunities at the college undergraduate level.

K-12 Programs & Resources

The NSF-funded NHERI Network is a distributed network across 11 institutions. The NHERI Network hosts educational programming and offers educational resources through the network's Education and Community Outreach (ECO) division. Each NHERI site also has institutional educational resources and programming for K-12 educators and students.

LESSON PLANS

Elementary School

K-3 Mountains and Sedimentary Rock (NEES)
K-3 South America and Africa Puzzle (NEES)
K-5 Earthquake Engineering Modules (NEES)
3-5 Shapes & Building Structures to Resist Earthquakes (REU 2021)
3-5 Interdisciplinary Problem Solving (REU 2021)
3-5 Social Vulnerability (REU 2023)
3-5 Granular Flow (REU 2024)
3-5 Landslide Impact (REU 2024)
3-5 Wind Loading (REU 2024)
4-5 Liquefaction Activity (NHERI 2023)
4-5 Earthquake Waves (NEES)
4-5 Earthquake Waves and Propagation (NEES)
4-5 Fault Slip (NEES)

Middle School

6-8 Wave Movement (REU 2021)
6-8 Soil Natural Hazards (REU 2021)
6-8 Soil Properties (REU 2022)
6-8 Form Drag (REU 2022)
6-8 Natural Hazard Reconnaissance (REU 2022)
6-8 Engineering Design Process (REU 2023)
6-8 Harnessing Wind (REU 2023)
6-8 Tectonic Plate Movement (REU 2023)
6-8 Building, Predicting, & Testing for Earthquakes (REU 2024)
6-8 Community Field Data Collection (REU 2024)
6-8 Scaling Models (REU 2024)
6-8 Wave Progression (REU 2024)
6-8 Windmill Electricity (REU 2024)
6-8 Earthquake Engineering Modules (NEES)
6-8 Base Isolation (NEES)
6 Earthquake Resistant Structures (NEES)
6-8 Masses on Rods (NEES)
6-8 Slinky Waves (NEES)
6-8 What are Earthquakes (NEES)
6-8 Landslides (Summer Institute 2024)
6-8 Wildfire Mapping Using Drones (Summer Institute 2024)

High School

9-12 Dampers and Real Time Hybrid Simulation (REU 2021)
9-12 Wave Interaction (REU 2022)
9-12 Machine Learning Problem Solving (REU 2023)
9-12 Calculus Applications (REU 2023)
9-12 Dot Product (REU 2023)
9-12 Coastal Floods (REU 2024)
9-12 Collecting Perishable Data (REU 2024)
9-12 Earthquake Engineering Modules (NEES)
9-12 Convection Currents and Tectonic Plates (NEES)
9-12 What is a Seismometer? (NEES)
9-12 Lithosphere Unit Overview (NHERI 2023)
9-12 Soil Texture (NHERI 2023)
9-12 Shake Table (NHERI 2023)
9-12 Material Xylophone (NHERI 2023)
9-12 Liquefaction (NHERI 2023)

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES

Summer Programs High School Students

10-12 Code@TACC Connected (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
10-12 Code@TACC Cybersecurity (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
10-12 Code@TACC GenCyber Level UP (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
10-12 Code@TACC Robotics (Texas Advanced Computing Center)
9-12 Wall of Wind Challenge (Florida International University)

Professional Development for High School Educators

Natural Hazards Summer Training Institute for Title 1 Teachers (The University of Florida)

Higher Education Programs & Resources

For university students who continue to explore pathways in STEM, the NHERI ECO offers learning tools for the higher-ed classroom, as well as summer research experiences for undergraduates and a computation academy for graduate students.

Contact Us

The Education and Community Outreach (ECO) and the ECO Committee develop and host the various NHERI network educational programming. If you have questions concerning educational programming across the NHERI network, please email us at reu-request@designsafe-ci.org. We will be happy to help!