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Watch "what is an earthquake?" video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJpIU1rSOFY

Tower challenge Rules: This is a great resource for teachers to watch to learn about the activity. (I would not show this to students because you want them to be as creative as possible)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y6FmrOS72EA

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Students will fill out rubric and will have to plan out their building. They will also improve their structures. We will test the structures twice.

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Measure height and width of buildings.
Review base ten.
So if group 1’s tower is 100 cm tall and group 2’s tower is 200 cm tall, what is the difference? etc.
Who can tell me what these two numbers would be in base ten blocks?

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Handout stem challenge graphic organizer.

You all are going to brainstorm how you would build a cube using the engineering process.

Each group will receive a graphic organizer. You will work with your table groups to come up with a plan for creating a cube. One person from your group will be the recorder. They will write down your plan on the graphic organizer.

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Which shape was the hardest to make? Why do you think this shape was so hard?

Why do you think engineers follow the engineering process?

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Engineer Rhyme Youtube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0bx7hOlePY
What is an Engineer Youtube Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owHF9iLyxic

IPAD Research:
Students will research in groups different types of engineers and what an engineer may wear or look like when they are at work.

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Come up with definition of what an engineer does and list ideas of what an engineer may look like as a class.

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Students will create their interpretation of what an engineer would look like. Make sure to draw, label, and color.

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Length: 2-3 weeks

Grade level: 1st-2nd

Overall Objectives: Students will demonstrate an understanding of what an engineer does and how engineers solve problems by completing a series of worksheets and hands on activities. Students will explore and explain the value of brainstorming, teamwork, and revision throughout each lesson.

Standards Addressed:

K-2-ETS1-1 Engineering Design:

Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.

K-2-ETS1-2 Engineering Design:

Develop a simple sketch, drawing or physical model to illustrate how the shape of an object helps it function as needed to solve a given problem.

K-2-ETS1-3 Engineering Design:

Analyze data from tests of two objects designed to solve the same problem to compare the strengths and weaknesses of how each performs.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.G.A.1: Reason with shapes and their attributes.

Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.1 Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.B.2: Add and subtract within 20.

Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.1: Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.

Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.A.1: Understand place value.

Understand that the three digits of a three-digit number represent amounts of hundreds, tens, and ones; e.g., 706 equals 7 hundreds, 0 tens, and 6 ones. Understand the following as special cases.

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Write in Science Journals
STEM Challenge Worksheet

What did we learn about engineering with this activity?

Would anyone like to maybe be an engineer someday?

Write in your journal one thing that you have learned about engineers in your math journal.

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Now, I want all of you to think quietly about this next question. Have any of you ever had to follow steps in order to do something?

When engineers are trying to solve problems, they usually follow steps in order to create something. These steps are called the engineering process. Say it with me. “Engineering process.”

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxJWin195kU

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Why do you think engineers follow these steps?

What would be hard about being an engineer?