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Through this lesson, we will investigate the fundamental properties of sound waves and how they travel through the air. After considering what creates sound, we will determine how we can create devices to manipulate it!
Through this challenge, students will be able to create their own unique impressions on time by designing and fabricating a stamp or seal of their own!
Despite the challenge, remorse, and frustration, humankind strives to partake in puzzles and games whenever we can. Nearly everyone has played a game or solved a puzzle of some kind, whether it be a strategy, mechanical, logic, or skill. In this challenge, students will not only experiment with and play different puzzle and games, but also design and fabricate their own!
Through this lesson, we look at how we store and use the things we buy from the eyes of a designer, not the consumer. Students will identify a product or item they use at home, in school, or perhaps on a team or in a club in order to redesign and improve the way they use them.
Through this lesson, we will consider how tools have been crafted throughout time to complete various tasks, construct our cities, and form the modern world of technology and tools we rely on today!