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Science Buddies: Defining an Engineering Design Problem With Paper Airplanes Lesson PlanScience Buddies: Defining an Engineering Design Problem With Paper Airplanes Lesson Plan
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Science Buddies
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3rd - 5th
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Science
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1120L
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Science Buddies: Defining an Engineering Design Problem With Paper Airplanes

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In this fun lesson, you will be the "customer" ordering a paper airplane, and your student teams will be engineering companies that will manufacture planes. Before they start making planes, they need to define the criteria and constraints of this engineering problem.

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engineering design process, science buddies, engineering design process projects

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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