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Teach Engineering: Couch Potato or Inertia Victim? ActivityTeach Engineering: Couch Potato or Inertia Victim? Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
5th - 7th
Subjects
English Language Arts
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Activities & Projects
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Lexile Measures
970L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Couch Potato or Inertia Victim?

Curated by ACT

Students design a simple behavioral survey, and learn basic protocol for primary research, survey design and report writing. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world - concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

engineering, inertia, stem, surveys

Additional Tags

inactivity, primary research, report writing, survey design, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, writing research reports

Classroom Considerations

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

Common Core

CCRA.W.7 W.5.7 W.7.7

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