Using office supplies, students will design, build, test, and iterate on a crash cushion that will reduce the force experienced by a cart as it crashes into a wall.
This lesson has been developed for Grade 8 students.
Please see video link as well as attached Hyperdoc.
Phenomena or Driving Question: Make a vehicle that travels one meter powered only by two balloons
Lesson description: In this unit of study, Newton’s Laws will be used to explain the forces and motions of objects on Earth and in Space. This Lesson is the Engineering design project at the end of the unit.
PE’s addressed: MS-PS2-1, MS-PS-2-2, MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-4
This lesson is courtesy of Heather Wygant and Susan Paulsen, Santa Clara, CA
You can find an overview of the lesson here: http://bit.ly/2oeSMvL
