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Try Engineering: Engineering Ups and Downs
Engineering design lesson plan examines the principles behind working elevators. Teams of students explore how elevators work, then design, build, and evaluate their own elevator to service a toy car garage.
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Try Engineering: Critical Load
This lesson plan looks at critical load, the amount of weight a structure can hold beyond which it would collapse. Student teams will design and test a structure using playing cards that has to meet specific criteria. Afterwards, they...
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Try Engineering: Cracking the Code
Lesson focuses on how computerized barcodes have improved efficiency in product distribution; explores the barcoding process and engineering design.
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Try Engineering: A Century of Plastics
Lesson encourages students look for plastics in ther everyday lives and explore what products require the material.