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Lesson 5
River Cleaning Challenge!
River Cleaning Challenge!
Explanation: Rivers our a major part of Watersheds. Runoff, litter, and pollution make maintaining a healthy watershed difficult. In this challenge construct a boat that will keep the river clean. See the slideshow below. And to see something like this challenge and its impact in the world watch the video on the left <---------
Try Water Shed Detective to figure out what is getting into watersheds and how to solve the problem. Click Here for other games
Project Expense Sheet:
Project Expense Sheet:
Keep Track of your expenses when building your boat. The best boat will give you the cleanest river for your money!
Critique
Critique
Use the Rubric to assess your boat and the other teams' boats.
PECO Excelon Challenge
PECO Excelon Challenge
The final presentation for PECO Excelon Challenge. Our 4th graders won best elemenatry project!
MWEE
MWEE
This video captures the whole process of building and testing our River Cleaning Boats
Philly Spring Clean-up
Philly Spring Clean-up
Our Family School Organization cleaned the school yard, which helps protect our watershed!
Below students built "Street Sweeper" prototypes to help keep the yard clean
As an extension 4th graders used their LEGO Simple Machines Kits to build street cleaners. Their machines were designed to clean the streets before runoff places more burden on their watershed.
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