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Design a Green Rooftop Garden

For Teachers 6th - 9th
Design and construct buildings with rooftop gardens. Junior engineers work in groups to build two buildings and then perform experiments to determine whether or not a garden affects the building's temperatures. They graph and interpret...
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Curated OER

Cross That Bridge

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students create paper bridges. For this geometry and architecture lesson, groups use legal paper and paper clips to design a bridge that will hold 100 pennies. Links to mini-lessons exploring stability of different geometric figures and...
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Curated OER

Sit on It!

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Learners design and create a chair. Students look at current stool design and come up with a prototype from donated materials. Learners then test their chair in various settings.