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The Olympics and Sustainable Sports Venues

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How can we design and engineer sports venues of the future that practice sustainability? According to the Green Sports Alliance, 17% of the world's population follows science but about 80% follow sports one way or the other. So, sport has the opportunity and responsibility to lead the way here in sustainability and green infrastructure. Is there a way to engineer and design a more sustainable Olympics? More sustainable sports venues?

Students explore these challenges during an engineering-design lesson that takes place over two weeks. Project management, research, design, scale model building, and presentation skills are included in this lesson. A guided research document with questions and resources is provided. A project rubric provides an outline for students to assess their levels of learning. This lesson follows the introduction of the engineering design process in lesson 1.

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6th Grade 7th Grade 8th Grade

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