Jacobucci- Inventions and Engineering-Period 4 Wednesday Assignments

Final Projects due today and presented in class. 

Continue working on tiny house.


Homework: make three accessories.

Review blue prints, share with teacher
Review building techniques
Begin building your house. You will need to draw on your house any openings prior to cutting.  Create all walls and floors, before you decorate. 


Homework: Create two pieces of furniture for your house.
Virtual students: Remember that this project will take us till the end of the school year, so not finish it all in one week, pace yourself

Begin floor plan ideas.
Review the tiny house criteria, and take another look at the google slide Tiny house shoe boxes.
Using Floor planning software, you will create a blue print of your tiny house.
You will be using Floorplanner. This is an online software program, you will be signing up for the free version of it. There are paid features, but for our project you will not need those features. You will use your st vrain school account to create an account. Be sure to write down the password you create so you don't forget it.
Below are a couple of tutorials to help you navigate the program. The first was created by another teacher (not our district, but its good)- It talks about creating an account and starting a project. The second talks about how you can add a second story or loft to a project. There are a bunch of other videos also available on youtube and in the help section.
When you design your house, use the dimensions for the shoe box you will be using. (1"-1') This will depend on your box and the design you plan to do.

Share your blueprint with me when you are done.

Begin tiny house projects

View google slides “Tiny house movement”. Discuss characteristics of the tiny home. Begin brainstorming designs. Also view website “67 best tiny house” for more ideas

homework:
fill in the Tiny house brainstorming questions.
Find a shoe box to build your tiny house in. When looking for a box, think about 1"=1', so a bigger box works better than a small box.

Share cars with each other

Watch Bill Nye video on human transportation

Week two of Air powered cars- Gone with the wind.
Share your possible build designs.
Start to build and test and race your car.
Once you have built and raced your car, complete the Gone with the Wind - Air powered cars Final Analysis -Due Week 31 3/8/2021
Be sure to bring your finished car to class to share next week.

Share boats with each other.

Gone with the Wind - Air powered Cars!- this is a two week long project.
The use of renewable forms of energy is a major focus for today's engineers. Wind power is one of the simplest and least expensive sources of renewable energy. By designing air-powered model cars, students experience the interative steps of the design process while exploring and gaining a better understanding of how wind power may be utilized.
View the powerpoint on Renewable energy
Review the Gone with the Wind - Air powered Cars challenge!
Being designing your cars. For this challenge you will use Bag C.
Complete the Gone with the Wind - Air powered cars Pre-planning guide- Due Week 30 3/1/2021- we will be sharing our ideas together in class.
Then start to build and test and race your car.
Once you have built and raced your car, complete the Gone with the Wind - Air powered cars Final Analysis-Due Week 31 3/8/2021

Remember to bring your car plans to class so we can share them with each other next week.

Remember to hang on to your foil boar so we can share you foil boat challenge creations and stories once I return.

Boats # 2- Moving through the water
Begin by watching the quick video on How boats move through the water.
For this activity you will be using supplies in Baggy B.
You will need to provide a bath tub full of water to test your boat.
Follow the directions on the worksheet to complete this activity. You can type directly on the worksheet. Fill in the questions completely.
Take a picture of your boat and insert it into the shared google slide presentation. Add a page for yourself (everyone will have their own page). Then put your name at the top of the page, add a picture of your boat, and then a brief description of how it went.
Save your boat to bring to class in a few weeks when I get back.

Remember I am not in town this week, so no synchronous classes. If you need help, send me message. We can meet over webex if you need help.

Today we will be looking at buoyancy.
Watch the videos that describes what buoyancy is.

For this activity you will be using baggy A from your supplies. Baggy A consists of a sheet of aluminum foil. You will need to provide a sink with water and a bunch of pennies for this activity.
Follow the directions on the worksheet to complete this activity. You can type directly on the worksheet. Fill in the questions completely.
Take a picture of your boat and insert it into the shared google slide presentation. Add a page for yourself (everyone will have their own page). Then put your name at the top of the page, add a picture of your boat, how many pennies did it hold and then a brief description of how it went.

Purpose: to explore a the world of transportation.
Create a google slide show about an engineer who had an impact on transportation.
See the attachment below for details.
See the rubric for points.
please list who you be doing your project on in the comments below. You may not choose someone that is already picked.

Purpose: to explore a the world of transportation.
Create a google slide show about an engineer who had an impact on transportation.
See the attachment below for details.
See the rubric for points.
please list who you be doing your project on in the comments below. You may not choose someone that is already picked.

Homework:
-Using the engineering design process, make 2 different airplanes- 1 that can fly the farthest and one that can stay aloft the longest amount of time.
-Build planes using the link shared during class, or you may choose to design your own.
-After you decide on your final 2 designs, complete the analysis sheet.
-Save your planes and be prepared to share them next week during class.

helicopter lab
students tried to create paper helicopters that would fall the slowest.
Fill in the lab sheet and turn it in. Remember, graphs always need to be done on graph paper.

Bridge Project

Project Due Date: week 16 12/2/2020

Purpose: to explore the world of civil engineering.

Step 1: Choose a famous/well known bridge.

Step 2: Go onto google classroom and in the comment section, list what bridge you picked. No two people can pick the same bridge.

Step 3: You are going to do a bit of research about your bridge. You will be acting as a travel agent and need to convince us to go visit your bridge. You will be creating an electronic travel brochure using google slides. It should be bright, colorful, and very informative.


Step 4: include the following information in your bridge:
• where is it
• when was it build
• who built it
• any challenges faced in building it
•multiple pictures of your bridge. Minimum of 5.
• what was it made of (materials)
• how long did it take to build
• other interesting facts about the structure (minimum of 3)

Share final design drawings and discuss ideas.
This week you will continue working on your bridges.
When you complete your bridge, test your bridge and fill in the analysis worksheet.
Upload at least two pictures of your bridge. these should be taken before you test your bridge.
We will be sharing pictures of our bridges in class.
Your final bridge build will be due on week 17 12/2/2020

Share our bridges. Test our bridges.
Be sure you fill out the analysis ws (week 15)

bridge challenge #1
Planning phase due week 15 11/118/2020
Fill in the planning phase worksheet and attach images of your final design drawings.
We will be sharing our final design drawings and ideas together in class.
Finished bridge will be due on week 17 12/2/2020

Share furniture that you created in tinkercad.
Design a room in tinkercad. It can be your actual room or the room you wish you had. You room should have three walls ( it should be open on the front and top so we can see in.). You need to include at least one door and one window. You should include furniture (minimum of three pieces) and decorations (minimum of 2). It should be colorful and creative.
We will share these with in class.
You will have three weeks to complete them.

Note: Next week's class (9/14) will be asynchronous - no in-person class.

Tinkercad room designs are due.
Share rooms with classmates.

Architectural Engineering Project

Purpose: to explore the world of architectural engineering.

Step 1: Choose a famous modern building. NO ancient structures, it must have been built after 1900.

Step 2: You are going to be a travel agent and need to convince us to go visit your building. You will be creating a presentation to share with the class. Your presentation should not be more than 5 minutes.

Step 3 &4: Presentation:
Find a creative and inventive way to present your findings to the class. These need to be uploaded to google classroom before class time.- See the attachment for more details.

You will have 3 weeks to complete this project.

Architecture project presentation.
Upload project into the original assignment post.

You have a couple of assignments this week.
1) On TInkercad. Create 3 different pieces of furniture. I have link a couple of youtube videos on how to build furniture. There are a bunch if you just keep looking. These are just for reference to give you ideas and help you out.
2) Start Project #1: Architectural design. See the separate project post.

More tinkercad designing.
this week we will be learning a bit more in tinkercad.
You will bee creating a key chain with your name on it. You are not required to actually print your designs, but you do need to create them in tinkercad. Be prepared to share you design with the class. extension: Now that you have created the plain key chain- make it your own. Play around on Tinkercad and add some othe rdesign elements to make it your own.
I have also included a reference page to included the basics of tinkercad.

Introduce tinkercad.
Use the link below to join this class on tinkercad. You will be asked to enter your nickname. Your nickname is your first name as it appears on my roster and the day you were born on. For example my nickname would be Carrie04. (My first name is Carrie and I was born on the 4th)
After today, you can go to the tinkercad link under resources and log in.
this week you will be doing the Project: Let's learn TInkercad.
To get to the project:
1. log into Tinkercad.
2. On the top right click on the learn tab
3. In the center of the screen, click on the Project tab
4.click on the blue box labeled "Let's learn Tinkercad!"
5. there are 5 lessons for you to complete.

View KQED’s Engineering Design Process diagram pdf to see the different parts of the engineering design process .
Watch the video, The Engineering Design Process: A Taco Party (this is in a separate classroom post). As you watch the video try to follow along using KQED’s engineering design process graphic and to pay attention to each of the steps of the process as it relates to the taco party.
Create your own poster demonstrating the engineering design process, pick an activity (like the taco party above) to help you show the different steps. Your poster should be neatly draw, on unlined paper 8X11, with color.

10 second share on homework "most important invention.
GUIDING QUESTIONS
What are some important inventions?
What leads people to invent?
How are our lives impacted by inventions?
How do inventions change over time?
Brainstorm together as a class inventions that have changed over time.
Comparing Inventions:
Show students several items: (cell phone, rotary phone, calculator, slide rule, mechanical pencil, quill) of several engineered items that they use every day. To spur thinking, they could begin by listing items in the classroom or in their backpacks (e.g. mechanical pencil, ballpoint pen, water bottle, etc.). Then, have students choose one of the items they listed and answer the following

Complete "How inventions have changed over time" WS, Finish for homework. Be prepared to do a 10 second share next week in class.

Welcome to Inventions and Engineering.


Let think about what the difference is between an inventions vs a discovery. Class discussion.

Homework: Homework is assigned on Wednesday and will be due the following Wednesday.
For this week I would like you do a little research, "What is the most important invention to humans? And Why? Write a paragraph (around 5-7 sentences) describing the invention, what is it used for, who invented it, when was it invented, why it was invented and why you feel it is the most important.
Create this paragraph in google classroom, be sure to "turn-in" the assignment. If you are not sure how to do this, check out the presentation in the resource tab under classwork in google classroom. Be prepared to share you idea with class next week.