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Looking for a smooth ride into the school year?
Have students drive their own learning in Motion Impossible!
Motion Impossible
In this three part challenge, students will design and test devices that can move a heart quickly and safely across land, water, or air.
Grades: 4-12
Duration: Three 60 minute sessions
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Like most of our resources, this lesson is aligned with the engineering strand of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). |
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Investigating Lift
Duration: 65-80 minutes
Grade Levels: 6-8
Build a device to explore the force of lift in a hovercraft. Grade Levels: 6-8
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Hover Design Challenge
Duration: 50-60 minutes
Grade Levels: 3-12
Build, test and modify hovering devices in a wind tunnel to expand knowledge of design and aerodynamics.
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Hashing and Cracking: Password Essentials
Duration: 50-60 minutes
Grade Levels: 4-6
Students take on the role of an entrepreneur creating their own company website.
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Greywater Gadgetry
Duration: Two 60 minute sessions
Grade Levels: 6-12
Create a two-part system for filtering greywater.
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Go Rover Go
Duration: Four 50-minute sessions
Grade Levels: 4-8
Learn how modifying building materials can convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
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Food Waste: Goodr
Duration: 1 minute
Grade Levels: K-12
Video: How can we stop throwing away perfectly good food and use it to feed the people who need it?
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Escape the Lava
Duration: Four 50-minute sessions
Grade Levels: 4-8
Design a device to rescue researchers from a lava flow.
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Engineering Takes Flight
Duration: Five 50-minute sessions
Grade Levels: 4-8
Explore the flight characteristics of different materials while designing an aircraft.
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Engineering Journals
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Levels: 3-8
Practice writing and documentation skills, whether in-person or virtual, with this journaling lesson.
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