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Teach Engineering: Stack It Up!

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Students analyze and begin to design a pyramid. Working in engineering teams, they perform calculations to determine the area of the pyramid base, stone block volumes, and the number of blocks required for their pyramid base. They make a scaled drawing of the pyramid using graph paper.

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Concepts
civil engineering, design, engineering, stem
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Additional Tags
approximation, engineering design process, estimate, scaling, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, pyramid, civil engineering concepts
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)