Written by Larissa Crawley, Don Galbraith Award Recipient 2023, Nipissing University. This activity could be used on its own as a STEM challenge in any classroom, or could be used as a performance task within a unit. The complexity of the task can be made more difficult or less complex depending on the student level […]
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