STEM PBL Civil Engineering- Traffic Jam! Pine City Measurement Math Project

STEM PROJECT BASED LEARNING - CIVIL ENGINEERING FOR KIDS

Traffic Jam! Pine City Math Measurement Project

Oh no! There is a major traffic jam in Pine City and it's even causing problems for the Fire Department! You have just been hired as a traffic engineer by the City to perform a traffic study to get to the bottom of this traffic nightmare. Your traffic study will evaluate all-important Fire Department Response times for the existing traffic conditions and for (2) options to improve the traffic. Have fun learning about what traffic engineers do and helping the City solve their traffic problems!

There are 3 Exciting Modules in this Project:

MODULE 1: Introduction into traffic engineering through a variety of activities to cultivate interest.

MODULE 2: Evaluate the existing traffic problem in Pine City and determine how bad of a traffic problem it is for the Fire Department. Have fun using the Pine City Map, measurement, charts, graphs, and skip counting to get the answer.

MODULE 3: Evaluate (2) options to solve Pine City's traffic problem. Both options look promising, but which one is best? Is it Option 1: building a new road and another Fire Station? Or is it Option 2: Build a beautiful truss bridge across Pine Lake? Have more fun using the Pine City Map, measurement, charts, graphs, and skip counting to see which Option is best? It's going to be a close call!

This NO PREP project includes the following:

• Basic introduction into traffic engineering
• Application of basic traffic engineering skills
• Introduction into city government
• Games and activities
• Maps, charts, and graphs
• Measurement - inches and miles
• Time - minutes
• Addition - single and double digit
• Skip counting - by 2's and 3's
• Lots of examples to build confidence
• Coloring
• Reading
• Writing
• Critical thinking

This FUN MATHWORK product is great for:

• Gifted and Talented
• Career day
• STEM Club Extra Curricular Activity
• Learning about civil engineering
• Enhancing general math skills especially skip counting by 2's and 3's
• Cross curricular exercises
• End of year and change of pace class activity
• Visual and tactile learners
• Reinforcing math skills
• Building math confidence and stamina

There are 41 total pages which includes an Answer Key!

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