This website talks about the Engineering Design Process, and has information about different types of engineering, and how to teach engineering to kids.

The Engineering Design Process

https://www.teachengineering.org/populartopics/designprocess

Types of Engineering

https://www.teachengineering.org/k12engineering/types-of-engineering

Engineering Curriculum for Kids

https://www.teachengineering.org/curriculum/browse

Another explanation of the Engineering Design Process, plus lots of resources about space exploration.

https://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/best/edp.html

Resources for families to explore engineering at home.

Videos

Activities

In this fascinating video series David Pogue explores materials science and cutting edge engineering challenges, with accessible humor. Highly recommended for all ages!

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/series/making-stuff/

If you want your kid to be seriously challenged, build and program robots, grapple with engineering challenges, and learn to work with a team... you just can’t beat FLL. If there isn’t a team locally, you can even start one yourself!

https://www.firstlegoleague.org/about

Your kids won’t think engineering is boring after watching this guy build amazing things, like his famously fabulous backyard squirrel maze.

Squirrel Maze

Other Videos

Classes

Stephen Ressler has made a fun, accessible, rigorous introduction to engineering in his courses for Wondrium (previously known as the Great Courses).

https://stephenjressler.com/the-great-courses/

https://www.wondrium.com/do-it-yourself-engineering

Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe

If you’re a little intimidated by science and engineering, this book is the cure. They’re not tectonic plates—they’re just big flat rocks we live on! It’s not the Large Hadron Collider—it’s just a big tiny thing hitter! All books by Randall Munroe will make you feel smarter, effortlessly.

Amazon link

EXIT games and puzzles are like an Escape Room in a box. A great fun family activity for rainy days.

https://www.kosmosgames.co.uk/the-games/exit-games/

Neil Patrick Harris has also made some great games, Box One and Amazed:

https://store.theory11.com/collections/gear