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Ei E: A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Lesson 1
A storybook introduces the engineering challenge and context. In this story, Paulo, a boy from Brazil, learns about aerospace engineering as he designs his own parachute. [10:34]
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Ei E: Designing a Parachute (1)
Students apply their knowledge of air resistance and aerospace engineering as they imagine, plan, create, test, and improve their own parachutes.
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Ei E: A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Lesson 3
Students learn about air resistance and test three isolated variables used in the design of parachutes. [14:52]
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Ei E: A Long Way Down: Designing Parachutes Lesson 2
Students use information about the temperature, atmosphere, and surface of a planet to imagine how a spacecraft traveling to that planet might be designed. [14:29]