Subject
Grade
Curricular Competency Group
Curricular Competency
Applying and innovating
Elaboration
- Sample opportunities to support student inquiry:
- Co-operatively design a waterwheel to contribute to aeration of a local waterway.
- Why are roads designed with banked curves?
- Apply static equilibrium to design and build a deadfall trap that could be used in a survival situation.
- How did the discovery of the electron and the development of the cathode ray tube (CRT) form the basis of new technologies (e.g., particle accelerators, smartphones)?
- Investigate methods of providing inexpensive and easily available electricity to rural areas or as part of disaster relief.
- Collaboratively generate possible prevention methods for common sports injuries based on an understanding of force, momentum, and impulse.
- How do G-suits save pilots’ lives?
keywords
Applying and innovating