Hands-on Activity
Skyscrapers Inquiry Unit
Skyscrapers Inquiry Unit Download PDF Skyscrapers Hands-On Activity Prompt for the students: Using only the materials provided, teams of students will design and build a structure as tall as p…
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Inquiry Unit
The symbol of growth in China and India of the early 21st century is the proliferation of skyscrapers. This was also the symbol of urbanization in the early 20th century U.S. How did this come about? …
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Drones (UAV) Inquiry Unit
Often when a natural disaster occurs, it is difficult for first responders and government officials who have evacuated to know what has happened to their town in the hours, and sometimes days, followi…
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Multimedia
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit
Historic insights into unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), from the Civil War through to today. See how aerial balloons were an integral part of early UAV or drone history and follow the technological p…
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Almost since the dawn of warfare, armies have sought ways to inflict the most damage on their enemies at the lowest cost to their own troops. Technologies from catapults to cannons have been developed…
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UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit
The predecessors to the UAVs of our time were a variety of catapults used since antiquity to attack enemies from a long distance by sending projectiles through the air. We know this from the visual an…
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UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit
Made of paper or rubberized silk, the Japanese Balloon Bombs, carried anti-personnel and incendiary bombs. Visit Source 1 Visit Source 2 Download PDF …
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Triremes Inquiry Unit A trireme reconstruction, known as 'OLYMPIAS', which was initiated in Greece in 1985 and completed in 1987, as shared by the Hellenic Navy. Visit Source Download PDF…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Model of Seating Arrangement on a Trireme © River & Rowing Museum Triremes Inquiry Unit Object Name model Description Model of the seating arrangement on a trireme. The mechanical model pro…
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Triremes Inquiry Unit
Triremes Inquiry Unit Fascinating insight into the life of Themistokles, as told in Plutarch’s Lives, translated from Greek to English, by Aubrey Stewart. It touches on most things addressed in t…
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