Zipline
Lesson: 90 minutes, Activity: 30+ minutes
Grades: 1-12
Students will use ideas about pushes and pulls (forces) to design a device that can transport cargo along a zipline safely.
Resources
Lesson: 90 minutes, Activity: 30+ minutes
Objectives:
- Identify the need for a process to slow a zipline device.
- Identify criteria and constraints of the slow-the-device process.
- Apply ideas about forces to design, test, and revise a slow-the-device process using provided materials.
- Evaluate the different solutions (processes) based on test results to determine which of them best solves the problem, given the criteria and the constraints.
Phenomenon Video: Ziplines are used all over the world for lots of different reasons. Take a look at this unique example. What does this engineering story make you wonder?
Standards alignment
- Engineering Design
