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Design It! Balloon-Powered Cars Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Balls and Tracks Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Blinking Lights Guide

After getting acquainted with some basic electrical circuits using batteries and bulbs, children are challenged to design a flashlight from a soda can, cardboard, battery, and wires. They also design a rotary switch, which they use to control a model...

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Design It! Cardboard Constructions Guide

How strong a stool can children construct from a small cardboard box? Will it support an adult? Building on this experience, children build a bed using a large piece of cardboard supported by small boxes. In the final activities, children build large...

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Design It! Cranes Guide

Using a cardboard box as the body, a yardstick as a boom, and a small electric motor as the power source, children make a working model of a crane. One aspect of the challenge is to design different ways of attaching string to the shaft of the motor so...

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Design It! Gliders Guide

Children construct simple airplanes from paper that are remarkably elegant fliers. After testing their own designs for tails, bodies and wings they construct a rubber band launcher which allows them to gain a more consistent way of evaluating all of...

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Design It! Paper Bridges Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Pinball Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Rubber Band-Powered Cars Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Sand and Water Clocks Guide

After getting acquainted with some basic electrical circuits using batteries and bulbs, children are challenged to design a flashlight from a soda can, cardboard, battery, and wires. They also design a rotary switch, which they use to control a model...

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Design It! Spinning Toys Guide

Plates, dowels, rubber washers, and tuna fish cans become homemade tops and yo-yos in this project. Children uncover the principles of balance and spin to make long spinning tops and regular and "sleeper" yo-yos. Instructional material only.

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Design It! Straw Rockets Guide

Launch the outer straw like a toy rocket by blowing. By using a sandwich bag propulsion system, students test different kinds of fins while trying to refine their toy rockets so that they will hit targets consistently. Booklet.

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Design It! String Telephones Guide

Starting out with paper cups and string, children first discover the principles that govern the simplest form of string telephone. They refine this model with other materials and then take on the hardest challenge of all-getting the message to travel...

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Design It! Trebuchets Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Project Series Implementation Guide

Introductory engineering experiences for after school programs and elementary school students (ages 8 to 12). Funded by the National Science Foundation and developed by Education Development Center, Inc. Design It! includes a guide for each project and a...

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Design It! Guides Series Set

A complete set of 14 projects (Balls and Tracks, Pinball, Trebuchets, Gliders, Paper Bridges, Rubber Band-Powered Cars, Balloon Powered-Cars, Cardboard Constructions, Cranes, Blinking Lights, String Telephones, Straw Rockets, Spinning Toys, Sand and...

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