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Lesson: Zipline
Grade Levels: 1-12 | Lesson: 90 minutes, Activity: 30+ minutes
Students will use ideas about pushes and pulls (forces) to design a device that can transport cargo along a zipline safely.
Students will use ideas about pushes and pulls (forces) to design a device that can transport cargo along a zipline safely.
Grade Levels: 1-12
Lesson: 90 minutes, Activity: 30+ minutes
Concepts/Skills: Forces, balanced and unbalanced forces, gravity
Objectives: Students will:
- Identify the need for a process to slow a zipline device.
- Identify criteria and constraints of the slow-the-device process.
- Apply ideas about forces to design, test, and revise a slow-the-device process using provided materials.
- Evaluate the different solutions (processes) based on test results, to determine which of them best solves the problem, given the criteria and the constraints.