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Use Newton’s Laws in designing a bridge by using free body diagrams and Hooke’s law to choose an appropriate bridge design and material for the project. To use engineering skills to build and test a bridge.

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This model helps to bring Scanning Tunneling Microscope research into the classroom by aiding an explanation of the atom-manipulation capabilities of the modern STM. Inexpensive, easily-obtainable materials are used to build a simple model of this complex task.

This lesson plan makes students more aware of polymers and the chemical make-up of polymers in our lives. It also introduces them to the phenomenon of out-gassing and shows how that phenomenon can be both hazardous and helpful.
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