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The challenge: To design, build and test a way of moving tomatoes that won’t squash them! Suitable for pupils aged 7-16. This challenge is perfect to reinforce a lesson on forces or as a STEM club, transition or British Science Week activity.
Squashed tomato STEM challenge. This Practical Action resource presents a fun hands-on and brains-on challenge for Key Stages Two to Five. The problem: In Nepal many farmers living on the mountainside grow fruit and vegetables, including tomatoes. To earn a living they need to sell these at the local market.
The Squashed tomato challenge is an exciting, hands-on challenge for pupils aged 8-16 years. It enables them to develop their own solutions to a transportation problem facing farmers living in mountainous areas in Nepal. It is based on Practical Action’s project work in Mana, western Nepal.
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The challenge: To design, build and test a way of moving tomatoes that won't squash them! Suitable for pupils aged 7-16 and flexible enough to be adapted to any length up to a full day's challenge for which secondary students can gain a British Science Association CREST Discovery Award.
Dec 12, 2016 · A link to Practical Action’s squashed tomato challenge and its related resources, where students are tasked with designing, building and testing a way of transporting tomatoes.
The capital of Nepal is Kathmandu. Explain that the problem they are going to try and solve using their STEM skills is one faced by farmers living in Nepal. 4. Introduce the context and a female farmer named Suchana. There is a printed case study to show later.
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