After reading the story "Dear Mr. Henshaw" by Beverly Cleary, students will build an alarm system for something in the classroom, as the main character Leigh does to protect his lunchbox from thieves. Students will learn about alarms and use their creativity to create an alarm system to protect their lockers, desk, or classroom door. Note: this activity can also be done without reading "Dear Mr. Henshaw".

Concepts

design, engineering, engineering design, stem

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Additional Tags

alarm, alarm systems, engineering design process, engineering design project, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, engineering design process projects

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 2 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)