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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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High Tech Hot Potato
Duration: 15-20 minutes
Grade Levels: 2-12
A data + engineering twist on hot potato. Build a "secure" case for your phone then analyze the data gathered by its accelleromters while you play.
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Gyroscope Dancing
Duration: 15 minutes
Grade Levels: 1-12
In this kinesthetic data challenge, use the accelerometers on the Arduino Science Journal app to test your ability to move smoothly.
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Grabbers
Duration: 45+ minutes
Grade Levels: 3-8
Design a device that can pick up three different objects from at least three feet away.
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Get in the Game
Duration: 90 minutes
Grade Levels: 3-8
Use computational thinking to design your own board game!
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Evolutionary Puzzles
Duration: 60 minutes
Grade Levels: 6-8
Create, organize, and structure data to explore patterns of heredity.
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Dino DNA
Duration: 30-45 minutes
Grade Levels: 5-12
Examine how traits are handed down through generations by creating hypothetical dinosaurs.
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Create with Cardboard
Duration: 20+ minutes
Grade Levels: 2-12
For this design challenge, use cardboard to build and test a prototype.
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Connecting with Climate
Duration: 90 minutes
Grade Levels: 6-12
Explore how to problem-solve when approaching large-scale, multidimensional issues like climate change.
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