Teams use the design process to design, build, and test a model levee to protect the town from a wall of water. A handout provides a price list for the materials learners can use to build their levee within a budget.

Class members are challenged to design a device that will move a circus elephant into a train car. Groups brainstorm ideas that use simple machines to load the elephant. They then choose one of their ideas, sketch a plan, and present it...

In this Washington D.C. from space worksheet, learners use a picture generated by the International Space Station and they find the scale of the image. They determine the actual size of features in the image, they find the distances...