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Engineering Design Challenge: Forces and Motion -- The Great
Boomerang Challenge
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During this web seminar, participants were introduced to the Great Boomerang Design
Challenge and found out how to incorporate this challenge into their physical science
classes. They learned how aerodynamics research has been applied to boomerang design
changes and increased boomerang performance, which led to the creation of international
boomerang flight competitions. Attendees received strategies for implementing the
lesson, which allows students to think and act like engineers and scientists as
they follow the steps of the process to design, build, test, and re-design a boomerang.
Details
This web seminar is part of a series of electronic professional development experiences
sponsored by the NASA Explorer Schools (NES) project. NASA Explorer Schools invests
in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics educators to inspire and engage
a whole generation of future scientists, engineers and technicians that NASA needs
to continue our journey. NES gives educators of grades 4-12 free access to NASA’s
people, missions, research, and facilities. We take the work out of searching through
thousands of materials on the NASA website and provide a comprehensive set of teaching
materials for dozens of STEM concepts. For additional information about the NASA
Explorer Schools project, visit
http://explorerschools.nasa.gov.
See when other
NASA Explorer Schools Web Seminars are Scheduled
For more information contact webseminars@nsta.org
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Sponsored by NASA
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