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Defined STEM - Researching wheels

Objective :
Students conduct research on issues and interests by generating ideas and questions, and by posing problems. They gather, evaluate, and synthesize data from a variety of sources (e.g., print and nonprint texts, artifacts, people) to communicate their discoveries.
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Resources :
Video : Bicycle Wheels 2: Building Bicycle Wheels
Discussion and examples of making perfectly tensioned wheels. Bike wheels are "tuned" in the workshop by plucking the spokes as if a guitar string and making the pitch uniform for each spoke.
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