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Teach Engineering: Problem Solve Your School ActivityTeach Engineering: Problem Solve Your School Activity
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TeachEngineering
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Grade
9th - 10th
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Science
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Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1020L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Problem Solve Your School

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Students apply what they have learned about the engineering design process to a real-life problem that affects them and/or their school. They chose a problem as a group, and then follow the engineering design process to come up with and test their design solution. This activity teaches students how to use the engineering design process while improving something in the school environment that matters to them. By performing each step of the design process, students can experience what it is like to be an engineer.

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brainstorming, engineering, engineering design, stem

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challenge, engineering design process, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, ms-ets1-3, teachengineering, teachengineering: problem solve your school, problem solving, engineering design process concepts

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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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