There’s been a fire. Your job is to figure out where the fire started, and how.
Fire safety is a complex problem without a single answer. Learn how to engineer and design fire safe spaces.
Safe and sustainable cities will depend on lithium-ion batteries to power our modern lives. But what are the costs?
From hoverboards to cell phones, portable electrical power makes life as we know it possible. But it can come with some dangerous possibilities. Let’s investigate, experiment and search for solutions.
Students can use this guide as they work through the Science of Thermal Runaway pathway to build a problem definition for the phenomenon of thermal runaway.
In The Science of Thermal Runaway, you will learn about the science of portable electrical power, from hoverboards to cell phones. Use this guide to organize the information in the pathway and make an evidence-based claim that is supported by evidence and scientific reasoning.
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