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Students will use what they have learned about Newton's Laws of Motion and engineering to design a highway crash safety barrier that will reduce the force applied to cars during a collision. Student teams will begin a 10-day engineering task design by creating design concepts using foam, styrofoam, plastic bottles, sand, rice, popsicle sticks, tape, and glue to create a crash barrier. Teams will actually work through the engineering design process by creating design concepts, evaluating design concepts, selecting designs to go to prototype, and then building and testing their prototypes. As they test each successive prototype, students strengthen their understanding of force and motion as well as gain real engineering experience as they develop barriers to make people safer in collsions. Towards the end of the project, teams will present their research in a gallery walk and then finally write individual lab reports. All aspects of this engineering task design provide students with skills they need to be successful in their future; creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

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Students will use what they have learned about Newton's Laws of Motion and engineering to design a highway crash safety barrier that will reduce the force applied to cars during a collision. Student teams will begin a 10-day engineering task design by creating design concepts using foam, styrofoam, plastic bottles, sand, rice, popsicle sticks, tape, and glue to create a crash barrier. Teams will actually work through the engineering design process by creating design concepts, evaluating design concepts, selecting designs to go to prototype, and then building and testing their prototypes. As they test each successive prototype, students strengthen their understanding of force and motion as well as gain real engineering experience as they develop barriers to make people safer in collsions. Towards the end of the project, teams will present their research in a gallery walk and then finally write individual lab reports. All aspects of this engineering task design provide students with skills they need to be successful in their future; creativity, collaboration, critical thinking, and communication.

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