This week, the students learned about how parachutes work and the engineering principles behind it! They first learned about the mechanisms that allow a parachute to work against gravity, then were tasked with building their own parachute using engineering design principles.
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In this lesson, students learned about bioengineering and its different applications in everyday life! Specifically, this lesson focused on mountain rescue litters, which are used most commonly to rescue hikers. Students were tasked with using a designated list of materials to create a rescue litter that would be able to support a potato. They then brainstormed ideas, built designs for a prototype potato rescue litter, and then tested it!
This week's lesson was about aerospace engineering! Students learned about rockets and different applications of aerospace engineering. The main activity centered around learning about, designing, and building your own rocket. Students learned to test, iterate, and record their measurements in order to keep improving their rocket designs. Lesson inspired by: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/teach/activity/straw-rocket/
This week, students learned all about windmills. They were first introduced to key concepts that they'd need to know in order to understand the topic such as work, energy, and the mechanism which operates a windmill. Students then practiced the engineering design process by building, testing, and revising their own DIY windmills! Lesson inspired by:
In this lesson, students were tasked with the ultimate test of engineering skills: building a marshmallow and spaghetti tower. The lesson was split into three main components:
In this lesson, students practiced employing the engineering design process while creating their very own "puff-powered" mobiles! They learned about how wind produces work, and how they can harness wind power themselves in a vehicle. Students worked in small groups to design, revise, and then test their ideas!
This week's lesson is all about engineering! Students started off by learning about what engineering is, then moved on to the specific lesson of the week about density & buoyancy. In this lesson, students used aluminum foil to visually understand what it means to "float" on top of water. The activity goes as follows:
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