Lesson #2: Engineering Design Process
by Kathy Hartley
This is the second lesson in a series of lesson designed to introduce the engineering design process to middle schoolers. In this lesson students will use the engineering design process reverse engineer a coffee cup racer. They will test their design against the original. The main take away for the student is that testing the design is an important part of the process.
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Lesson Plan Link/URL
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZgOPSvdPxvevWa5s-_0T9tImDzZ45I2C/edit?u…Subject Area
Technology Engineering S2: Apply the Engineering Design Process S3: Apply Mathematics to Engineering
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