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STEM: Lou-Vee Air Car Lesson PlanSTEM: Lou-Vee Air Car Lesson Plan
Publisher
National Research Center for Career and Technical Education
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Grade
6th - 12th
Subjects
Math
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Resource Type
Lesson Plans
Audience
For Teacher Use
Duration
3 days
Instructional Strategies
Collaborative Learning
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Technology
Scientific Equipment
Year
2012
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STEM: Lou-Vee Air Car

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A comprehensive lesson on acceleration awaits your physicists and engineers! Two YouTube videos pique their interest, then sample F=ma problems are worked and graphed. The highlight of the lesson is the building of a Lou-Vee air car! Emerging engineers find its mass and compute its acceleration in order to figure out the force provided by the "engine." Math and science collide in this forceful feat!

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CCSS: Designed

Concepts

newton's second law of motion, newton's laws of motion, sir isaac newton, newton's third law of motion, action and reaction

Additional Tags

stem, newton's third law, newton's second law, action and reaction, ps2.b, ps2.a, math

Pros

  • Designed to meet Common Core math standards
  • Hands-on activity
  • Well-organized lesson plan

Cons

  • Materials-heavy
  • Time-consuming
  • Many math standards are listed for Common Core, but you will need to be creative in order to meet them all

Common Core

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