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Cupcake Delivery

Grades K-12 60 minutes Engineering Physical Science

Cupcake Delivery

Cupcake delivery illustration.
Cupcake delivery illustration.

Create wind-powered contraptions to transport a load. At The Tech, we use 3D-printed cupcakes as our load, but you can use just about any small object.

Resources

Lesson Plan PDF

Tech at Home activity

Video

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Hoạt động bằng tiếng Việt

Objectives:

  • Design and test a wind-powered device.
  • Consider how characteristics of a payload may affect the design of their device.
  • Use observations from their tests to compare solutions and iterate on their designs.

Standards alignment

  • Engineering Design