The Attraction is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems
Grades 1-5
Description
In The Attraction is Obvious: Designing Maglev Systems, students explore magnetism and its applications in engineering. The unit begins with the storybook Hikaru’s Toy Troubles, in which a boy named Hikaru living in Japan explores the field of Transportation Engineering in order to design a special attraction for his family’s struggling toy store. Over the course of the unit, students analyze the design of transportation systems, investigate the properties of magnets, and build model toys that use magnets. Like Hikaru, students then follow the steps of the Engineering Design Process to imagine, plan, create, and improve their own magnetic levitation transportation system.
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