I was recently reading the September-October 2025 issue of "Science Scope", a publication of the National Science Teaching Association.

In this issue, I read the section, "From the Editor's Desk" written by Patty McGinnis.  She wrote an article entitled, "Engineering in the Middle School Science Classroom"

If you are looking for engineering ideas for your classroom, you can peruse sites such as:

teachingengineering.org

or

tryengineering.org

both of which contain a searchable database of Next Generation Science Standards aligned activities.