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NASA@ My Library: Design A Park

This kit includes the Design A Park activity where participants will imagine the park of their dreams. Place moveable pieces on a grid to iterate their plan for a community park.

Key Concepts:

Explore the process of solving challenges through engineering in an imaginative task: designing, building, and maintaining a community park.
Encourages persistence: Successful engineering involves a process of thinking, building, testing, and doing it again.

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300 Yellow Pony Beads
30 Sheets of Graph Paper
30 Lengths of Yarn (44")
30 Sets of Park Features

Please only use the kit components you need and return the rest to be used by other libraries. The graph paper and yarn are not expected to be returned.

Engineered! by Shannon Hunt; James Gulliver Hancock (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781771385602
Publication Date: 2017-09-05

Design a Park
Participants will design the park of their dreams.

NASA@ My Library
NASA Science Mission Directorate education objectives support the Nation's education efforts to improve science literacy and to inspire the next generation of scientists and engineers. One institution that can accomplish both of these outcomes, for people of all ages and in every region of the country, is our public library system the central focus of the NASA@ My Library project.
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