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Sound and Vibration Tapping the tines of the tuning fork against a solid surface and then holding the fork next to a ping pong ball helps demonstrate how sound travels with vibrations. | Cup Phones Connecting two cups with string is an excellent way to demonstrate how the string will vibrate and carry sound as long as the string is pulled tight. | Rubber Bands Students discover how they can get different sounds from rubber bands when bands are wrapped around containers vertically and horizontally. Students made connections with the sounds they heard to that of a guitar. |
Sound and Vibration
Tapping the tines of the tuning fork against a solid surface and then holding the fork next to a ping pong ball helps demonstrate how sound travels with vibrations.
Cup Phones
Connecting two cups with string is an excellent way to demonstrate how the string will vibrate and carry sound as long as the string is pulled tight.
Rubber Bands
Students discover how they can get different sounds from rubber bands when bands are wrapped around containers vertically and horizontally. Students made connections with the sounds they heard to that of a guitar.
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Pollination Pollination must occur for a seed to form and for a new plant to be created. Students practiced pollinating silk flowers using their fingers that were coated with Cheetos. | Seed Dispersal Students design, build, and test a device that mimics one of the ways animals disperse seeds. They followed the steps of the Design Process and compared the strengths and weaknesses of each device. | Collaboration Students know that engineers and designers select materials which have properties that are best suited for an intended purpose. |
Pollination
Pollination must occur for a seed to form and for a new plant to be created. Students practiced pollinating silk flowers using their fingers that were coated with Cheetos.
Seed Dispersal
Students design, build, and test a device that mimics one of the ways animals disperse seeds. They followed the steps of the Design Process and compared the strengths and weaknesses of each device.
Collaboration
Students know that engineers and designers select materials which have properties that are best suited for an intended purpose.
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Aero App To help the students explore the forces of flight, they enjoyed using the Aero app. Their goal was to keep the albatross from crashing into the sea. | Glider Design In cooperative pairs, students designed gliders using a design app on the iPads. Then students conducted several test flights of gliders they assembled, and they also tested the effect of any modifications they made including various wing types and additional weight. | Bar Graphs Students organized and maintained engineering notebooks to document their work. Using the data they collected during their test flights, students graphed their results. Then they spent time discussing what they learned and what helped the gliders fly farther. |
Aero App
To help the students explore the forces of flight, they enjoyed using the Aero app. Their goal was to keep the albatross from crashing into the sea.
Glider Design
In cooperative pairs, students designed gliders using a design app on the iPads. Then students conducted several test flights of gliders they assembled, and they also tested the effect of any modifications they made including various wing types and additional weight.
Bar Graphs
Students organized and maintained engineering notebooks to document their work. Using the data they collected during their test flights, students graphed their results. Then they spent time discussing what they learned and what helped the gliders fly farther.
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Inputs and Outputs Students built the major lobes of the brain and the spinal cord out of clay and determined which part of the brain is responsible for each of our five senses. | Sense Tests Students conducted tests of each of the five senses to learn which part of the brain is primarily responsible for each sense. In this photo students explored the "Stroop Effect," an interesting trick of the mind. | Memories In this activity, students investigated how the brain processes and stores information as memories. This traditional game had students taking turns pairing together matching cards. |
Inputs and Outputs
Students built the major lobes of the brain and the spinal cord out of clay and determined which part of the brain is responsible for each of our five senses.
Sense Tests
Students conducted tests of each of the five senses to learn which part of the brain is primarily responsible for each sense. In this photo students explored the "Stroop Effect," an interesting trick of the mind.
Memories
In this activity, students investigated how the brain processes and stores information as memories. This traditional game had students taking turns pairing together matching cards.
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Ankle Foot Orthosis (AFO) Using the Design Process, teams worked collaboratively to design, test, and build a model solution for patients with a movement disorder called cerebral palsy. | Prototypes The goal of any engineering design process is to create solutions and opportunities for people and society. These completed prototypes were constructed based on design documentation and then tested to identify any design flaws. | Measurement Lab Students practiced precise and accurate measuring by designing and assembling paper skimmers that could glide across the floor with ease. |
Ankle Foot Orthosis (AFO)
Using the Design Process, teams worked collaboratively to design, test, and build a model solution for patients with a movement disorder called cerebral palsy.
Prototypes
The goal of any engineering design process is to create solutions and opportunities for people and society. These completed prototypes were constructed based on design documentation and then tested to identify any design flaws.
Measurement Lab
Students practiced precise and accurate measuring by designing and assembling paper skimmers that could glide across the floor with ease.
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Boolean Logic Students coded with algorithms and explored conditional statements and Boolean logic. | Algorithms 7th graders used a flow chart to create an algorithm to accomplish a task. | Programming Students used debugging strategies to isolate any bugs in the program and then they solved the problem. |
Boolean Logic
Students coded with algorithms and explored conditional statements and Boolean logic.
Algorithms
7th graders used a flow chart to create an algorithm to accomplish a task.
Programming
Students used debugging strategies to isolate any bugs in the program and then they solved the problem.
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Tetrahedral Kite 8th grade students learned how the wind captures and lifts kites. | Power Up Paper Airplanes Students learned how density affects flight. | Digital Gliders First students designed a digital glider, and then they used the specs to build the glider out of balsa wood. |
Tetrahedral Kite
8th grade students learned how the wind captures and lifts kites.
Power Up Paper Airplanes
Students learned how density affects flight.
Digital Gliders
First students designed a digital glider, and then they used the specs to build the glider out of balsa wood.
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