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Science Museum of Minnesota: Students as Designers Website

Science Museum of Minnesota: Students as Designers Website

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Science Museum of Minnesota: Students as Designers

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This site provides eight projects to use in an elementary classroom to encourage students to become inventors/designers. Invention, prototyping, materials exploration, creative writing, problem-solving, and group presentations are important parts of each project.

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air power, fun inventions, group presentations, inventor invention, marble machines, mini golf course, motion machines, shoebox whirligigs, student inventors, science museum of minnesota: students as designers, problem solving, inventors and inventions

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