Owning Our Space
by Jule Abeytia
Using the engineering design process, students will identify a structural or spatial problem on their school campus and then plan, design, evaluate and redesign a structural and spatial solution while applying the grade-appropriate understanding of area and perimeter and correctly calculating those measurements for their model and the real life application.
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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1aaemVPwpLnCUugetn1bk_EYKAv8qyBpp/edit?u…Subject Area
Engineering S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process S3: Apply Mathematics to Engineering Mathematics Number and Operations in Base Ten (NBT) Measurement and Data (MD)
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