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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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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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Skyscrapers Inquiry Unit
The Pyramid of Cheops or Khufu, constructed c. 2580 – c. 2560 BCE, is the tallest pyramid in Giza and the largest ever constructed in Egypt. Made of limestone and originally reaching a height …
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Skyscrapers Inquiry Unit
A tablet of neo-Babylonian mathematical text that references, The Etemenanki, a ziggurat presumed to be the biblical “Tower of Babel”, or the "House of the Foundation of Heaven and Earth" (Genesi…
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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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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, development, and follow the technol…
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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
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit The German Luftwaffe used the V-1, Vergeltungswaffen (retaliation weapon) a small, pilotless cruise missile during World War II as a last attempt to gain back their advant…
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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
UAV (Drones) Inquiry Unit Living through a UAV attack. “Buzz-Bomb Blitz” includes comments from those who lived through the V-1 bombings. Visit Source Download PDF…
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