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Go The Distance Car Construction

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Students build and program a car to drive a specific challenge distance.They must at the end of the lesson, have the car that stops the closest to a challenge distance.

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the scientific method, distance, estimation, line graphs, graphs

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group work, line graph, distance, estimation, scientific method, real-world problems, math
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Grade
1st - 5th
Subjects
Math
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Project-Based Learning

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