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Grade 5 Lesson: Take Out the Trash: Cleaning Our Rivers

As students learn about the components of a river ecosystem, they design a means of eliminating the trash that threatens the health of a river system. Students build their devices entirely out of recycled materials in order to understand the challenges engineers face as they try to minimize the amount of raw material used in their work.

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Time
  • Multiday
Careers
  • Environmental
  • Materials Science
Grade
  • 3-5
Topic
  • Dream Big
  • Green & Climate
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  1. Patricia
    Patricia on November 8, 2023 at 10:19 pm

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