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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build an Edible Skyscraper
Can you create a bioglue that allows you to build the tallest skyscraper out of graham crackers? This website contains tips, lesson plan, a place for you to document your engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Map the Ocean Floor
In this challenge, students are asked to map out the ocean floor with a device that they design. The challenge site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Redwood Tree
Using recycled paper and tape, students will build a redwood tree that is taller than you and that can stand on its own. The site includes the challenge, tips, lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Joint Mechanism
This website challenges students to make a simple machine out of a straw to mimic the movement of joints in your body. The website includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Hydroelectric Waterwheel
Can you generate electricity from the flow of water by designing a waterwheel? In this challenge, students will be using everyday objects to create their waterwheel. This site contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Create a Circuit to Light an Led
This website contains a challenge for students to build a simple circuit that enables you to turn on a small LED. The website includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design challenge.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Stable Boat
This website challenges students to build a boat that holds as many as pennies as possible. Site also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Submarine
Students are challenged to create a submarine that will dive down through the water and come back to the surface. This site includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Glider
This website contains a challenge for students to build a paper bird that glides at least six feet. The site also contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Robotic Face
Build a robotic face that can make facial expressions using simple machines on this website. This website includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Design a Robotic Arm
A challenge that asks students to move a marble, a straw, and a coin from the table into a cup using a robotic arm they designed. The site includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Mechanical Theater
Make a simple machine that creates characters for a theater show on this site. This site contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Parallel Processing Machine
Can you build something that can sort data through multiple parallel channels? This site contains a challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Neural Network
This site has students creating a network that classifies information using cups, index cards, and strings. Site also contains a place for students to document their engineering design process, a lesson plan, and tips.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Self Driving Car Game
Do you think you could build a game board that acts as a system of circuits to alert and navigate around obstacles? This site contains this challenge as well as a place for students to document their engineering design process, tips, and...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Light Dispersal System
Use this website challenges to create a way to spread light inside a house to illuminate a picture. The website also includes tips, a lesson plan, a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make Drawings of Three Dimensional Objects
Using the Glass Box Theory, students will make scaled technical drawings of 3D objects. This site includes the challenge, tips, a lesson plan, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Flat Ball
Using simple geometric shapes cut out of paper and taped together to create a ball that is as round as possible with this challenge. This page also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Engineer a Landing Device
Can you design and build a device that will slow down your payload as it falls so it lands gently when dropped from 8 feet high? This website contains a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Talking Truck
On this site, you will find a challenge, a lesson plan, tips, and a place for you to document your engineering design process. Here you are challenged to build a truck that "talks" to alert when there is a problem.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Water Collection System
Students are challenged to create a structure that collects the most amount of rainwater on this website. The website includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Wind Powered Turbine
On this site, there is a challenge for students to engineer a machine that converts wind power into mechanical energy. This site also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a Mighty Machine
Using just popsicle sticks, paper clips, straws, pencil, binder clips, and rubber bands, students are challenged to build a structure that jumps into the air. This mighty machine will jump up, sideways, or flips over. This website...
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Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Build a No Wire Circuit
A challenge for students to design and build a circuit using conductive everyday objects. This site also includes a lesson plan, tips, and a place for students to document their engineering design process.