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Ciese: Scratch My Back: Children's Engineering Activity Lesson PlanCiese: Scratch My Back: Children's Engineering Activity Lesson Plan
Publisher
Center for Innovation in Engineering and Science Education, Stevens Institute of Technology
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K - 1st
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Science
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Instructional Strategy
Independent Practice
Lexile Measures
1160L
Lesson Plan

Ciese: Scratch My Back: Children's Engineering Activity

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This lesson is based on the book Big Smelly Bear by Britta Teckentrup. In the book, a big, smelly bear has an itch in the middle of his back and can't scratch it. Nothing the bear tries works. Using the Engineering Design Process, children will design, build, and test a backscratcher for themselves.

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Concepts

engineering

Additional Tags

backscratcher, design function, invent a backscratcher from everyday materials, schematic, sketch, "big smelly bear" by britta teckentrup, engineering design process, k-2-ets1-1, experiment, problem solving for engineering projects

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional|practice

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