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• Using simple, inexpensive items, students build and test submarine models in a single class period. They gain insight into the engineering that's required to make these machines ascend, descend, and hover safely in extreme environments. The printable eight-page handout includes:

  • A series of inquiry-based questions that get students thinking about the complex engineering required for submersibles.
  • Illustrated experiment directions.
  • A worksheet that includes thought-provoking questions along with areas for recording experiment data.

• Completion Time

  Approximately 1 period

• Topic

  Earth Science

• Subtopic

  Tools and Methods

• Subtopic

  National Science Education Standards
  Grades 5-8:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Physical Science CONTENT STANDARD B: 

  • properties and changes of properties in matter• motions and forces

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • abilities of technological design• understandings about science and technology

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • nature of science

  Grades 9-12:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Physical Science CONTENT STANDARD B: 

  • structure and properties of matter• motions and forces

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • abilities of technological design• understandings about science and technology

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • nature of scientific knowledge

• Learning Standard

  National Science Education Standards
  Grades 5-8:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Physical Science CONTENT STANDARD B: 

  • properties and changes of properties in matter• motions and forces

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • abilities of technological design• understandings about science and technology

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • nature of science

  Grades 9-12:
  Science as Inquiry CONTENT STANDARD A: 

  • abilities necessary to do scientific inquiry• understanding about scientific inquiry

  Physical Science CONTENT STANDARD B: 

  • structure and properties of matter• motions and forces

  Science and Technology CONTENT STANDARD E: 

  • abilities of technological design• understandings about science and technology

  History and Nature of Science CONTENT STANDARD G: 

  • nature of scientific knowledge