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Posted January 9th, 2009 by admin

Motion and Design

Author: Carol Swink
Level: Elementary School
Content Area: Science, Technology, Engineering

Lesson 1: Designing Vehicles: Getting Started (A)

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Activities: 
  1. Ask students to think about vehicles and what causes them to move. Ask students how engineers design vehicles.
  2. Gather materials: science notebooks, loose leaf paper, graph paper.
  3. Discuss importance of dates in science notebooks.
  4. SCIENCE NOTEBOOK: Respond to the question: “What we know about the motion and design of vehicles.”
  5. Share writings with cooperative group and then as a class. Write responses on the chart paper or board.
  6. SCIENCE NOTEBOOK: Respond to the question: “What we want to find out about motion and design.”
  7. Share writings with cooperative group and then as a class. Write responses on chart paper or board.
  8. Students collect a bucket and explore using the pieces. Students will also receive a copy of the illustration of pieces handouts (2). What pieces fit together? How?
  9. Students share discoveries from the exploration.