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Lending Library Kit Information

Catapult

Objective:

Give students an experience in engineering while teaching principles of physics.  Introduce students to the scientific processes of experimentation and trial and error.

Subjects:

Physics
Engineering

Grades:

6-8
9-12

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Lesson Plan
catapult.pdf
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The contents of your kit

Items included:
Lesson plan copy
Activity Sheet copy
Catapult Kit:

* Rubber bands
* Pushpin
* Paper cup
* Nuts (1/4 x 20)
* Machine screws (1/4 x 20 x 4 1/2")
* Screws
* Screw eye (Closed eye)
* Screw eye (Open eye)
* Hook & Chain
* Wood Arm and Base
* Pegboard sides

Screwdriver
Items you will provide:

 
Edited on: 29 August 2007 12:27 pm