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Educational Use
In this open-ended design activity, students use everyday materials milk cartons, water bottles, pencils, straws, candy to build small-scale transportation devices. They incorporate the use two simple machines a wheel and axle, and a lever into their designs. Student pairs choose their materials and engineer solutions suitable to convey pyramid-building materials (small blocks of clay). They race their carts/trucks, measuring distance, time and weight; and then calculate speed.
- Subject:
- Design Studies
- Practical & Applied Arts
- Material Type:
- Activity/Lab
- Provider:
- TeachEngineering
- Provider Set:
- TeachEngineering
- Author:
- Denise W. Carlson
- Glen Sirakavit
- Jacquelyn Sullivan
- Lawrence E. Carlson
- Luz Quiñónez
- Malinda Schaefer Zarske
- Date Added:
- 10/14/2015
