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Definitions for Project Lead the Way
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Topics of this game:
- What is the problem? What are your criteria? What are you constraints?
- Did your model work? How can it be improved? Make improvements!
- What has been done before? Brainstorm!
- Sketch your ideas. Make a list of materials. Build a model.
- Share your work with classmates.
- Something in position to "get moving." It is at rest.
- Energy that comes from something in motion
- Designs and builds thing to solve a real life problem.
- A limit or restriction on something ( time or materials)
- Energy can be converted, but not created or destroyed
- An object traveling down a high hill will have less potential energy than a lower hill
- One moving object or person striking violently against each other
- The best school ever
- The S in STEM
- The E in STEM
- The T in STEM
- The M in STEM
- A weight hung from a fixed point so that it can swing back and forth freely
- An abject starting at rest at a greater height has a higher potential energy.
- A sloping ramp up which heavy loads can be raised. Example, a ramp
- Keeps someone under control Example, a seatbelt
- Science, technology, engineering, and math
- The first model of something
- The STEM program we use during class
- The number of points you can earn if you show self control in class.
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