Category: Lesson Plans
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“Seeing” forces
This lesson was developed in a Lesson Study Project over three years. The authors are Karen Vanderheyden, Markeeta Clayton, Nikki Grimes and John Graybill. They called this lesson– “Send in the Reinforcements” You can download it here. The lesson is the first in a series of explorations of the way members and joints distribute load…
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Jet Straw Lesson on Newton’s Third Law
Jet Straw Victoria Deneroff, PhD I stole this idea many years ago from the NASA website, although I have adapted it to be an engineering challenge rather than a science activity. The original appears to no longer be easily available on the web. Design Challenge Build a jet straw air engine which produces the highest…