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Teach Engineering: Solid Rock to Building Block

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Students continue their pyramid building journey, acting as engineers to determine the appropriate wedge tool to best extract rock from a quarry and cut into pyramid blocks. Using sample materials (wax, soap, clay, foam) representing rock types that might be found in a quarry, they test a variety of wedges made from different materials and with different degrees of sharpness to determine which is most effective at cutting each type of material.

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  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)