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Teach Engineering: Watch It Slide! ActivityTeach Engineering: Watch It Slide! Activity
Publisher
TeachEngineering
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Grade
3rd - 5th
Subjects
Science
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Resource Type
Activities & Projects
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For Administrator Use
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Lexile Measures
1080L
Activity

Teach Engineering: Watch It Slide!

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Students use inclined planes as they recreate the difficult task of raising a monolith of rock to build a pyramid. They compare the push and pull of different-sized blocks up an inclined plane, determine the angle of inclination, and learn the changes that happen when the angle is increased or decreased.

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Concepts

engineering, force, friction, slope, stem, inclined planes

Additional Tags

inclination, integrated teaching and learning program and laboratory, teachengineering, angle, inclined plane, pyramid, simple machine

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 3 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)

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