Students learn about archives and primary sources as they research original historical documents. While preparing an imaginative first-person account as if witnessing an historical event, they learn to appreciate the value of the first-person, eye-witness account and understand its limitations. Note: The literacy activities for the Mechanics unit are based on physical themes that have broad application to our experience in the world - concepts of rhythm, balance, spin, gravity, levity, inertia, momentum, friction, stress and tension.

Concepts

engineering, stem, wright brothers

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Additional Tags

eye witness accounts, first airplane flight, historical writing, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, primary source, secondary source

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)