Energy can never be created or destroyed. We learned about this concept by making Organic Ice Cream in class.
Students were learning about potential and kinetic energy by creating rubber band racers.
A Reminder for Emily:
This Unit is all about Designing Alarm Circuits
Most Humans spend over 95% of their time interacting with Technology. Pencils, chairs, water filters, tooth brushes, cell phones, and buildings are all technologies- solutions designed by engineers to fulfill human needs or wants.
After students have read A Reminder for Emily by: Engineering is Elementary Team, w discussed that all things are made up of matter. Did you ever walk across a carpet, touch someone and get a shock? Students experienced static electricity by rubbing balloons against different objects and observing their reactions. Student have also learned to sort electrical technologies by their functions and relate their findings to energy transformation.
This Unit is all about Designing Alarm Circuits
Most Humans spend over 95% of their time interacting with Technology. Pencils, chairs, water filters, tooth brushes, cell phones, and buildings are all technologies- solutions designed by engineers to fulfill human needs or wants.
After students have read A Reminder for Emily by: Engineering is Elementary Team, w discussed that all things are made up of matter. Did you ever walk across a carpet, touch someone and get a shock? Students experienced static electricity by rubbing balloons against different objects and observing their reactions. Student have also learned to sort electrical technologies by their functions and relate their findings to energy transformation.
Exploration time: How can we light up a light bulb?
Students were given materials and time to design the best solution. Last class they learned about series circuit. Now they had to make one using teamwork, collaboration and communication.
What is a Series Circuit?
Why bother with series circuits? They don't make sense for homes, schools, or factories! But there are special uses for series circuits. Parts of computers, radios, and television sets are wired in series. Parts of space rockets too. A series circuit is an electrical hookup in which the current has only one path. Students took part in deep discussions to think of some of the ways we series circuits.
Magnets
In this exploration we observed magnetism and how it relates to electricity and unseen forces. Magnets have positive and negative sides.
In our activity we discussed that magnets are helpful to us because we use them in toys, credit cards and even computers. They learned that opposites in magnets attract. In a battery there are positive and negative sides just in like magnets!
In our activity we discussed that magnets are helpful to us because we use them in toys, credit cards and even computers. They learned that opposites in magnets attract. In a battery there are positive and negative sides just in like magnets!
Light Up the Night
In this activity we learned the principles of electricity and how to apply them. Students were assigned to create a glow stick without any directions. Students learned to:
- Define questions and problems, design investigations to gather data, collect and organize data, draw conclusions, and then apply understandings to new and novel situations.
- Creatively use science, mathematics, and technology concepts and principles by applying them to the engineering design process.
- Apply rational and logical thought processes of science, technology, engineering and mathematics design.
- Understand and explain the fundamentals of STEM and to develop the skills needed, and to appropriately apply the knowledge gained.
What is engineering?
Students learned about all the components of engineers and why they are significant. The goal of this lesson was for students to derive that Engineers constantly need to design, plan, brainstorm and collaborate with their team to successfully solve their problem.