SDG #6 Clean Water and Sanitation

Grade 8 Science Understanding Structures and Mechanisms: Systems in Action

Lego Education: Simple and Powered Machines

Our Design Challenge tasked students with creating a powered auger model using Lego. This was connected with the need for wells in villages to ensure that everyone has access to clean water.

• 2.4 use technological problem-solving skills to investigate a system (e.g., an optical system, a mechanical system, an electrical system) that performs a function or meets a need
• 2.6 use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including mechanical advantage, input, output, friction, gravity, forces, and efficiency, in oral and written communication

Grade 2 Social Studies: People and Environments: Global Communities