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Grade Levels: 4-8 | Duration: Four 50-minute sessions
Learn how modifying building materials can convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
Learn how modifying building materials can convert potential energy into kinetic energy.
Grade Levels: 4-8
Duration: Four 50-minute sessions
Objectives: Students will:
- 4th – 5th grade students will:
- Explain how a vehicle stores potential energy and how that energy is converted to kinetic energy to move the rover.
- Analyze data from testing to inform design decisions intended to improve the efficiency of a rover.
- Apply knowledge about potential and kinetic energy to design, build and improve the efficiency of a rover.
- Use evidence from testing and the concept of energy to support claims about how well a design meets the criteria and constraints of a design challenge.
- 6th –8th Grade students will:
- Explain how the distance between parts of a system affects the amount of potential energy stored in that system.
- Analyze data from testing and knowledge about potential and kinetic energy to inform design decisions to improve the efficiency of a product.
- Use evidence from testing and science concepts to support claims about how well their design meets the criteria and constraints of the final design challenge.