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Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core ActivityPbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core Activity
Publisher
PBS
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Grade
3rd - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Types
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1080L
Activity

Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Down Core

Curated by ACT

This challenge is to design and build a tool that can take a core sample from the center of a potato. Are you up to it?

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Concepts

critical thinking

Additional Tags

collecting core samples, engineering activities, following instructions, hands-on activities, design squad, down core, pbs kids, wgbh educational foundation, critical thinking skills, engineering games and puzzles

Classroom Considerations

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

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