About This Lesson
Students will act as scientists working through the engineering design process to plan, build, and test a catapult using rubber bands and craft sticks.
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Subject
English Language Arts — Reading Standards for Informational Text, Writing • Math — Measurement and Data • Science — Science and Engineering Practices
Grade Level
Grades 3-5
Resource Type
Activity
Standards Alignment
Next Generation Science Standards, State-specific
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Standards
Draw evidence from literary or informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
Analyze how two or more texts address similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the approaches the authors take.
Delineate and evaluate the argument and specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
Analyze the structure of texts, including how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
asking questions, predicting, observing, describing, measuring, classifying, making generalizations, inferring and communicating.
observing, measuring and collecting data from explorations and using this information to classify, predict, and communicate.
Plan and carry out fair tests in which variables are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved.
Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Generate and compare multiple possible solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.
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