How to Create a Safe Intersection?

ENGINEERING&TECHNOLOGY

Curiosity trigger

Using toy cars and a model (board), the students will test traffic at an intersection. First, they will use string to mark travel routes on the model, and then they will plan the operation of traffic lights.

Curriculum and Skills

Work and Life Skills:

Critical thinking and drawing conclusion

In this lesson, you will cover:

NEXT GENERATION SCIENCE STANDARDS:
3 -5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.

You will need

A few toy cars, plasticine, counting sticks, small circles cut out of colored paper, pieces of string in various colors, and scissors.

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Authors

Author: Emilia Skupień
Methodology: Monika Zwierko
Translation: Paweł Fabrowicz
Producer: Klaudia Chmura

Source

This is a modified version of a lesson plan created by the Children’s University Foundation under the CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Photo by William Warby from London, England – Traffic Light Tree, published on Wikimedia under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

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