Nov /Dec 2023

How Legos Saved a Turtle

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STEM Activity
Design an Animal Wheelchair

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Academic Standards

 

Reading Objective:

Students will examine how the engineering design process was used to design and build a Lego wheelchair for an injured turtle.

 

Reading Level:

Lexile : 510L; GRL: K

 

Next Generation Science Standards:

K-2-ETS-1: Engineering Design

2-PS1: Finding materials best suited for a purpose;

Reassembling objects made of small sets of pieces

 

Vocabulary:

plastron, infected, engineer, design

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