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Teach Engineering: Edible Rovers ActivityTeach Engineering: Edible Rovers Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
6th - 8th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
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Lexile Measures
1090L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Edible Rovers

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Students act as Mars exploratory rover engineers. They evaluate rover equipment options and determine what parts fit in a provided NASA budget. With a given parts list, teams use these constraints to design for their rover. The students build and display their edible rover at a concluding design review.

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Concepts

engineering, mars rover, stem

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design constraints, design criteria, engineering design process, equipment design, project planning, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, mars exploration, teachengineering, teachengineering: edible rovers, engineering design process projects, mars exploration rovers

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

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