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Teach Engineering: Paper Drop Design Competition

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Using paper, paper clips and tape, student teams design flying devices to (1) stay in the air as long as possible and (2) land as close as possible to a given target. Student teams will use the engineering design process to guide them through the initial conception, evaluation, testing and re-design stages. The activity culminates with a classroom competition and scoring to determine how each team's design performed.

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Concepts
engineering, engineering design, stem
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Additional Tags
engineering design process, engineering design project, engineering process, flying device, hs-ets1-1, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, ms-ets1-3, teachengineering, teachengineering: paper drop design competition, engineering design process projects
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Practice