Students learn about the underlying engineering principals in the inner workings of a simple household object - the faucet. Students use the basic concepts of simple machines, force and fluid flow to describe the path of water through a simple faucet. Lastly, they translate this knowledge into thinking about how different designs of faucets also use these same concepts.

Concepts

engineering, water pressure, force, stem, simple machines

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Additional Tags

faucet, fluid flow, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, wedge

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Classroom Considerations

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