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Middle School Science Balloon Powered Car

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Submitted by DaveBakker on Mon, 05/29/2017 - 17:01

Phenomena or Driving Question: Make a vehicle that travels one meter powered only by two balloons

Lesson description:  In this unit of study, Newton’s Laws will be used to explain the forces and motions of objects on Earth and in Space.  This Lesson is the Engineering design project at the end of the unit.

PE’s addressed: MS-PS2-1, MS-PS-2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-4

This lesson is courtesy of Heather Wygant and Susan Paulsen, Santa Clara, CA

You can find an overview of the lesson here: http://bit.ly/2oeSMvL

And a template for the activity here: http://bit.ly/2p6Oynb

Designing a STEAM Lesson

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