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Students cut plastic water bottles with scissors

Audience

Educators

Grade Levels

Grades K-4, Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12, Informal Education

Type

Lesson Plans / Activities

This open-ended engineering design challenge engages participants to design and build an instrument to measure rainfall. The activity uses easily available materials. Participants learn how a calibrated system is needed when designing and building a scientific instrument.

A data collection capture sheet is included.

Next Generation Science Standards: ESS3.A, ESS3.B

Rain Gauge Design Challenge