Essential Question and ELO's
Essential Question:
How do we design for fun?
From The Vermont Technology Grade Expectations:
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
Grades 6-8 Students use digital representations of existing knowledge to extend their understanding, using a variety of digital resources to create new ideas, products, or processes.
2. Communication & Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
Grade 6-8- Students use grade appropriate digital tools to publish/share ideas and resources, collaborate, and provide feedback with peers,others, and experts/mentors using an online environment.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, & Decision-Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students:
b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
Grade Expectation
Students select appropriate digital tools, including online collaborative tools, to plan and manage individual and group learning projects.
NGSS Standards:
MS-PS2-3.Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. [Clarification Statement: Examples of devices that use electric and magnetic forces could include electromagnets, electric motors, or generators...]
MS-PS1-6. Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.
How do we design for fun?
- Grade 8 Essential Learning Outcomes (ELO's):
- ELO #1 Engineering Design -I can define problems precisely, conduct a thorough process of choosing the best solution and optimize the final design.
- ELO #3 Forces and Interactions - I can apply Newton's laws of motion to relate forces to motion of objects. I can apply ideas about gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces to explain why some objects attract while others repel. I can identify how speed, acceleration, momentum, friction, inertia, gravity, and work are affected by Newton's laws. I can identify the 6 simple machines and explain why and how they make work easier by giving a mechanical advantage. (underlined parts only apply)
- ELO #5: Electrical Energy - I will be able to build an electric circuit and identify what each circuit is used for, understanding the main areas of electricity, such as resistance, Voltage, Amperes and the relationship between them (Ohms law). I can understand the law of charges.
From The Vermont Technology Grade Expectations:
1. Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative thinking, construct knowledge, and develop innovative products and processes using technology. Students:
Grades 6-8 Students use digital representations of existing knowledge to extend their understanding, using a variety of digital resources to create new ideas, products, or processes.
2. Communication & Collaboration
Students use digital media and environments to communicate and work collaboratively, including at a distance, to support individual learning and contribute to the learning of others. Students:
Grade 6-8- Students use grade appropriate digital tools to publish/share ideas and resources, collaborate, and provide feedback with peers,others, and experts/mentors using an online environment.
4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving, & Decision-Making
Students use critical thinking skills to plan and conduct research, manage projects, solve problems, and make informed decisions using appropriate digital tools and resources. Students:
b. plan and manage activities to develop a solution or complete a project.
Grade Expectation
Students select appropriate digital tools, including online collaborative tools, to plan and manage individual and group learning projects.
NGSS Standards:
MS-PS2-3.Ask questions about data to determine the factors that affect the strength of electric and magnetic forces. [Clarification Statement: Examples of devices that use electric and magnetic forces could include electromagnets, electric motors, or generators...]
MS-PS1-6. Undertake a design project to construct, test, and modify a device that either releases or absorbs thermal energy by chemical processes.