Advanced Design Applications Daily Lessons

June 2017
Date Warm-up Class Activities Objectives. SWBAT:
9 Hand in warmup sheets.
  1. Go over the semester in Review.
  2. Journal: Answer these final reflection questions:
    1. What were the most valuable things to learn about in this class?
    2. Which unit was the least valuable?
    3. What would you change about this class to make it better for next year? (you must specify at least one thing)
  3. Work: Empty your binder and recycle or take it home.
  • Reflect on class
8 Define "origami"
  1. Summative grade: the semester in Review. Due Thursday.
    Look at websites (pwd: ada) online , egg drop videos and cardboard chair pictures on the Handout drive for reminders. [ Be sure to use details and be descriptive to geet the full points ]
  • Summarize lessons learned in second semester
7 What part of the human body uses origami-like folding to increase area?
6 How is a protein like origami?
  1. 3d design happens many different ways. Watch the video on origami and answer the questions.
  • Describe how different things in the real world inspire design
5 Name something inspired by origami.
  1. Finish notes from 3D careers.
  2. Biotechnology connects to computer science and engineering. Watch the video on how origami inspires biotechnology and answer the questions.
  • Describe design inspirations in biotechnology
       
1 Draw the move tool in SketchUp
  1. Read about careers in 3D modeling and fill out the paper
  • Identify opportunities that use computer science and 3D design
May 2017
31 Draw the resize tool in Sketchup
  1. Finish Room design. Create your own shelves and windows from scratch like the directions in the video.
  • Use features of 3D design to make identical copies and symmetric designs.
30 What is this tool in SketchUp? 
tool
  1. Review: 3D design in SketchUp.
  2. Finish the Inside Room to review how to use the tools in Sketchup. Capture a screenshot and paste it into OneNote in your 3D section.
  • Create the interior of a room in SketchUp
       
26 Compare Digital Designer to SketchUp for 3D design
  1. Showcase designs created with the Digital Designer.
  2. Now that SketchUp is working again we can finish the solar workshops. Do this lesson to create an Inside Room to review how to use the tools in Sketchup
  • Compare 3D design tools for freeform design
25 How is 3D different from 2D?
  1. Last day to experiment with Lego Digital Designer. Design a vehicle. Here are suggestions and the rubric. You can create a design of your own that meets the rubric.
  2. Put a screenshot of your vehicle on the 3D vehicle page in OneNote.
  • Arrange and rotate parts in 3D
24 How do you rotate a part in the Digital Designer?
  1. First design a 3D logo for an air powered car company. Show for points. Extra points if you put a screenshot in OneNote.
  2. Design a vehicle. Here are suggestions and the rubric.
  • Arrange and rotate parts in 3D
23 What can air be used to power in addition to cars?
  1. We created 3D designs before in SketchUp, now experiment with a different 3D design tool, Lego Digital Designer. Experiment with the tools to make something recognizable.
  • Build in layers to create 3D
22 Define compressed.
There are no new warmup papers. Use your own paper for today's assignment and write the warmup question and answer on top.
  1. Read the articles about new innovations with air power and answer the questions.
  2. Do the word search on the front teacher's desk about momentum and hand it in today with your answers
  • Describe new applications of compressed air
  • Define terms on air compression
       
19 How can air power a car?
  1. Vote for best egg drop video.
  2. Improve designs so that air powered devices can cross the entire length of the track and go uphill.
  • Test and refine air powered device designs
18 Why is a shockwave dangerous?
  1. How can air power a vehicle? (video)
  2. Design and test an air powered device with maximum momentum.
  • Describe how air can be used to provide clean power.
  • Design and build an air powered device.
17 Why is there less force when 2 cars hit each other at 50 mph than when one car hits a wall at 100 mph?
  1. Air can cause damage in more ways than high winds. Learn about the effects of shockwaves that follow explosions. What's the difference between a shockwave in air or water?
  2. Use data from simulated tests to answer questions.
  • Describe how the forces in shockwaves can be observed.
  • Use simulated data to answer questions.
16 Why is there more force when dropping from a higher height?
  1. Which does more damage: a car hitting a wall at 100 mph, or 2 cars colliding at 50 mph? In this experiment the mythbusters find out and Newton's Laws are proven to be correct (05:47).
  2. Why were mythbusters wrong?
  3. Perform simulated tests of collisions.
  • Analyze forces in car crashes
  • Use simulator to analzye elastic and inelastic changes in momentum.
15 Why is it challenging to design something to go into space?
  1. Share videos.
  2. Run simulated tests , record results, design experiments and make predictions.
  • Review videos
  • Use a simulator to show forces of impact, design an experiment and check predictions.
       
12 What does an exploded view show?
  1. Look at the University Rover Challenge., Human exploration challenge
  2. Finish videos.
  • Document the success, challenges, and points of impact in video form.
  • Comment on videos.
11 What does a force diagram show?
  1. Draw an exploded view and force diagram of your landing device on the back of your criteria/constraint sheet. HAND SHEETS IN TODAY.
  2. Make a video that explains one of your test runs. Your video should have:
    • A title and credits
    • A marker or caption to highlight the point of impact
    • Record a voice over to explain why the test did or did not work..
    • Optional music track, animations or video effects for extra points.
  • Diagram all parts of a device in an exploded view
  • Highlight areas of primary and secondary impact
  • Document the success, challenges, and points of impact in video form.
10 How did you reduce primary impact?
  1. Add titles and credits to videos. Use MovieMaker (under Programs on the computer)
  2. Draw an exploded view and force diagram of your landing device on the back of your criteria/constraint sheet.
  • Add title and credits to egg drop video
  • Draw an exploded view and force diagram
9 Describe a way to cut down on secondary impact.
  1. Finish building protective landing device.
  2. Test and video. Save devices.
  • Incorporate successful ideas into your own design.
  • Test designs.
8 Is this a criteria or constraint: You cannot build a parachute
  1. Investigate other successful designs for a protective landing device. Outline how primary and secondary impact were addressed.5 ways explained
  2. Summarize at least 3 successful solutions. Here is 1 successful project with research to start with.
  3. Describe how you can incorporate a good idea. Document changes.
  • Research successful designs to mitigate primary and secondary impact.
  • Incorporate successful ideas into your own design.
       
5 Describe why you picked one of the items on your materials list.
  1. Fill in notes on the landing challenge: purpose, criteria, constraints, etc.
  2. Finish building original prototype and test dummy.
  3. Run tests and make improvements. Document changes.
  • Document project criteria and constraints
  • Build and test initial designs
  • Modify and improve.
4 Why do the rotocopters spin when they fall?
  1. Hand in your materials lists.
  2. Run tests of everyone's large (newspaper sized) air resistance devices and original spinner devices to determine which characteristics are the most successful. If you can't find yours, rebuild it.
  3. Gather materials and build initial protective landing devices. Test in the classroom and make modifications to reduce impact and momentum.
  • Perform test runs of similar devices, compare designs and results to generalize successful strategies.
  • Build and improve initial designs
3 What makes more momentum?
  1. Finish experiments to prepare for the landing challenge.
  2. Create a large and small rotocopter. Experiment with increasing angular momentum in small ways. Fill out the paper
  3. Choose materials for your protective landing device.
  • Describe solutions to increase air resistance, cut down on momentum and add to angular momentum.
  • Select a design and materials.
2 How are primary and secondary impact different?
  1. Create a graph of momentum results in a spreadsheet. Write down how your results compare to others.
  2. Do experiments to prepare for the landing challenge.
  • Systematically experiment with momentum, angular momentum and air resistance.
  • Graph, compare and describe results.
1 Describe one physics concept needed to design a landing vehicle.
  1. Review transportation in space
  2. Fill in notes on forces used in the landing challenge.
  3. Review landing challenge experiment: physics concepts, criteria, constraints and plans
  4. Do experiments to prepare for the landing challenge.
  • Describe effects of momentum, pressure and spin on gravitational pull
April 2017
27 & 28

Thursday warmup: How does a graph make results easier to understand like the projectile graph you did yesterday?

Friday warmup: What was the most interesting kind of transportation you learned about on Thursday?

Thursday: Explore transportation in space and other challenging environments. Get a paper handout and fill in your answers. Due today.

Friday: It is a challenge to land spacecraft and machines in hard to reach places. Read about this experiment to land something carefully and design a plan for a solution. On your own paper, describe at least 3 physics concepts involved in this challenge, the criteria and constraints, hand in a sketch of your design, and a materials list.

  • Describe transportation in unusual environments
  • Design a safe system to land something carefully.
26 Which kind of motion does not cause a plane to tilt: yaw, pitch or roll?
  1. Quiz: aerodynamics and plane control
  2. Use the projectile toss with air resistance turned on to make 5 different objects hit the target. Record results in the ProjectileData spreadsheet and graph the results. Analyze your graph. What does it tell you? Write it on the graph and data sheet and turn it in.
  • Demonstrate understanding of aerodynamics and airplane control
  • Experiment with speed and angle settings with air resistance.
25 What does an aileron do?
  1. Add to notes about yaw, pitch and roll. Which parts of the plane control each motion?
  2. Try the quiz and see if you can label the parts
  3. Review for tomorrow's quiz.
  4. Look at AOPA resources for interested student pilots.
  5. Fly in Google earth and pay attention to the controls. Stall the plane. What speed/pitch will produce a stall?
  • Describe which airplane controls change yaw, pitch and roll
  • Experiment with controls in a virtual simulator.
24 What part of a plane provides lift?
  1. Review and label parts of a plane and what they do on the notes.
  2. Describe ways to modify a design to improve flight.
  3. Systematically make changes and record results.
  4. Alternate plane design if you are not satisfied with either of yours.
  • Systematically make changes and record results.
       
21 What shapes have very little air resistance?
  1. Presentation: About wind tunnels and virtual wind testing.
  2. Parts of a plane
  3. Activity. paper gliders. How far do you think a paper airplane can fly? Create 1 of the 4 paper airplane designs in the Plane Patterns Handout and its associated Plane Design Instructions; Test each one 3 times and consider why one design might be better than another.
  • Create 2 different glider designs
  • Modify a designed glider to improve its flight.
20 What are the 4 forces that act on an object trying to fly?
  1. Experiment with the ways that air resistance changes motion. Compare a piano, pumpkin and golf ball with and without air resistance. Which one is most effected by air resistance?
  2. Build and test your best design to resist the wind with a low wind velocity and then a high wind velocity. Record results, make improvements and retest. Fill in a journal about your design project.

If you were not in class on this day write a 1 page paper that includes a picture, at least 350 words, on wind tunnel testing. What kinds of tests are done? What kinds of things are tested? What do they learn from wind tunnel tests?

  • Experiment with changes in motion due to air resistance.
  • Build and test a design to withstand wind.
19 How does a wing provide lift?
  1. Presentation: lift and wind tunnel testing
  2. Design a way to cut down on air resistance and test in a wind tunnel.
  • Describe why wings lift planes
  • Test a design in a wind tunnel
18 Why are airplanes usually faster than cars?
  1. Presentation: air and transportation
  2. Design a high flying plane and find the best angle for an efficient wing.
  • Experiment with Bernoulli's principle
  • Design aircraft components for maximum efficiency and lift.
    Spring Break  
7 What is an algorithm?
  1. Look at some line following robots from around the world:
    1. Battle of speed (start at 1:30)
    2. Ottawa Canada mixed lines
    3. Manchester England contest
  2. Set up the color codes to win the bowling games.
  • Compare different line following robot designs.
6 What kind of sensors does the Ozobot have?
  1. Watch the Ozobot follow lines.
  2. Review the Ozobot color codes.
  3. Outline the algorithm together that controls the Ozobot line following
  4. When offered a choice of turns, Ozobot chooses randomly. Try the Ozo-Race. What codes are used?
  5. Experiment with codes and lines
  • Control the ozobot using color codes and line following
5

What is a drone swarm?

  1. Discuss:
    • What are features of robotic parking lots and drones
    • What kinds of sensors do robots have? What kinds do drones or parking garages have.
  2. Create this program, to design a path from the pirate ship to the treasure using colors to signal turns.
  • Control a robot using light sensors.
4 Is a smart parking system worth the money? Why or why not?
  1. What is a drone swarm? Look at the pictures and watch the video Find more information and describe at the bottom of your page in the OneNote Unit 4 Transportation section:
    1. What drone swarms can be used for
    2. Why drone swarms are so hard to film
    3. How drone swarms communicate
    4. Then find your own video on drone swarms or other swarm robots and report on it
  • Describe features of swarm behavior
3 Could a building be a robot?
Why or why not?
  1. Look at these 3 robotic car parking systems.
    1. Chinese underground parking garage
    2. Lichtenstein above ground system.
    3. Dubai park and wash
  2. Describe each one in OneNote in the Unit 4 Transportation section, compare the advantages and disadvantages, tell which one you think is the best, and why.
  3. Design your own parking system that is even better, on paper with a sketch and description, and hand it in.
  • Compare robotic parking systems
  • Combine ideas to create a better design
March 2017
31 What is incremental design?
  1. Look at this robot, can you program your robot with level 3 code to make a letter "Z" and then spin in a loop to celebrate by sensing where to turn using color?
  2. Design clues to get to the treasure from the pirate ship using at least 3 different color commands. Write out your directions and then code the robot to follow them.
  • Navigate by making decisions.
30 Where are the Ozobot light and color sensors?
  1. Discuss incremental design
  2. Program the robot to run a maze using dead reckoning.
  • Navigate by dead reckoning and sensing.
29 What is dead reckoning?
  1. Share research on different types of robots including line following robots
  2. Run a robot through a maze using dead reckoning.
  • Share about different kinds of robots.
  • Program a robot to traverse a maze.
28 Describe 4 different ways that robots can move

TODAY'S WORK WILL GO ON 4th QUARTER GRADES

  1. We will be working with robots tomorrow. Robots can be given commands to get from one place to another by telling them exactly how many steps to take and what direction to turn or by giving them directions on how to make their own decisions.
  2. Print out this maze and write directions to get the frog and bee out of any exit of the maze. Each square is 1 step. The robots understand the commands F for Forward, L for turn Left and R for turn right. To go forward 5 times write F5.
  3. The butterfly will follow this code: Repeat these steps until you get out of the maze: go forward until you reach a shape. If the shape is a square turn left, if the shape is a circle turn right. Draw the circles and squares in the blocks needed to get the butterfly out of the maze.
  4. Another way robots can move is to follow a line. Find a real line following robot and write a description of who made it, why it was made, what kind of work it does, and where you found your information with a picture of the robot. Save it on your drive to show me tomorrow.
This is due TODAY.
  • Use dead reckoning and sensing to describe a robot path
  • Describe line following robots
27 Why are turns more difficult than straight lines for vehicles?

TODAY'S WORK WILL BE GRADED THIS EVENING FROM THE ONENOTE NOTEBOOK AND WILL GO ON 3RD QUARTER GRADES

  1. View the presentation on robotics , press the PLAY button to move from one part to the next, (the video probably will not work). Fill in the notes in the Unit4 Transportation section of OneNote.
If OneNote is not working, copy the questions into Word and then print on a SINGLE PAGE after you've answered all the questions THIS WILL GO ON 3rd QUARTER GRADES and is due TODAY.
  • Describe different kinds of robots and what they do.
       
24 How is a driverless car different from a robot?
  1. A quick look at local transportation costs.
  2. Future transportation recap
  3. Investigate vehicle aerodynamics and power. What are the forces and what are the resistances?
  4. Build and test solutions for the challenge to design a downhill, turning tube structure. Reflect on results.
  • Build and test a design for a downhill tube structure.
23 Why is the hyperloop so fast?
  1. Review plans for ideal transportation.
  2. Could this be an ideal urban solution?
  3. What are the relative costs of housing and transportation in different areas of the US? Calculate how much people spend on transportation.
  4. Define the problem and brainstorm solutions for the challenge to design a downhill, turning tube structure.
  • Calculate typical transportation costs.
  • Plan a design for a downhill tube structure.
22 What's an advantage of a driverless car?
  1. Take a tour of customized cars.
  2. What is around the corner in transportation?
  3. What is the hyperloop?
  4. What's the future of transportation?
  5. Work with a partner to create a plan for the ideal transportation system.
  • Investigate future transportation technologies.
21 What is a disadvantage of driverless cars?
  1. How to design a car for the future. If driverless cars were more stylish than other cars, would more people want to buy them? How much are customers influenced by style?
  2. Design 2 customized cars:
  • Consider the effects of style on customer satisfaction.
20 Define navigate
  1. What would a driverless world look like? (4:05 start)
  2. What are the good and bad possible effects of driverless cars?
  3. Make posters on the future of transportation.
  • Create a display on unusual and future transportation.
       
17 Define vehicle.
  1. Thinking outside the box: look at unusual vehicles
  2. Find an example of a different unusual vehicle that is real. Print a picture and write 2 sentences about the best features in your own words to make a class poster. Cite your sources.
  • Explore unusual options in transportation.
16 What is a disadvantage of eCommerce?
  1. Review website design.
  2. Present new technology and design findings.
  • Compare features of website design tools.
  • Describe new technology
15 What is an advantage of eCommerce?
  1. Present findings on the advantages, disadvantages, and advice about eCommerce.
  2. Evaluate websites. using this rubric
  • Compare advantages and disadvantages of eCommerce
  • Review websites
14   *~*~*~*~ SNOW! *~*~*~*  
13 What is a blog? How is it different from other web pages?
  1. Presentation: eCommerce (etsy, kickstarter, and more) what are the advantages and disadvantages?
  2. Do some quick research on an aspect of eCommerce and share findings.
  3. Finish your original page on design or technology.
  • Explain advantages and disadvantages of eCommerce
  • Finish summary of new technology.
       
10 What is eCommerce?
  1. Features in Weebly.
  2. Create an original page in weebly on an aspect of design or technology. It must include:
    1. at least 2 pictures
    2. at least 6 sentences that tell worthwhile information.
    3. show some effort at using color, style, and originality of presentation.
  • Personalize a web page.
9 How is a picture collage different from a gallery element?
  1. Finish your "About Me" page . PUBLISH to update.
  2. Submit a plan for your final 2 pages. What will you create that is related to this class?
  • Create a personal web page.
8 What element can you add to a web page to add many pictures arranged in rows and columns?
  1. Share helpful techniques you have discovered.
  2. Evaluate 2 other websites with a glow and grow.
  3. Add an "About Me" page to your website that tells about things you like, that you'd like to do, and that have shaped your life and whatever else you'd like to include. Include pictures and other interesting elements to make a creative page. PUBLISH to update your site.
  • Create a personal web page.
7 Name 3 web page elements.
  1. Finish your Review webpage.
  2. PUBLISH your website.
  • Finish review webpages.
6 What is a web 2.0 website?
  1. News: 3D printed house in 1 day.
  2. Presentation: webpage layout and styles. Mark the elements. How to add elements in Weebly.
  3. Make 2nd Review webpage together.
  4. PUBLISH your website.
  • Create a second web page.
  • Identify and add design elements to a web page
       
3 How is innovation different from invention?
  1. Presentation: websites.
  2. Sign in to weebly,
  3. Choose a name for your site, make a collage to represent the units in ADA, create your home page.
  • Make a website home page with information and a collage using web 2.0 tools.
2 What is the difference between art and engineering?
  1. Look at the 7 pictures in this lesson on chair design. Answer the questions, hand them in today.
  • compare function and design of artistic chairs
1 List 2 features that indicate quality construction.
  1. Test chairs. Evaluate construction quality, appearance, strength, comfort
  2. Fill out final reflections in journals
  • evaluate quality, appearance, strength and comfort
  • Reflect on the team design process.
February 2017
Date Warm-up Class Activities Objectives. SWBAT:
28 Sketch 2 designs for a decorative addition to your team chair.
  1. Finish final chair designs. Fill out final journals individually. Design, sketch and create a decorative addition to your team chair.
  • Use teamwork, safe and professional work habits during construction.
  • Reflect on the process and results.
27 Design a test plan and write it in your final journal.
       
24 Who is the materials person on your team?
  1. Using criteria and constraints for chairs build final chair designs in teams
  • Use teamwork, safe and professional work habits during construction.
23 In the classroom.
  1. Write up a summary of a current event new article on technology and hand it in TODAY or at the beginning of class tomorrow.
  • Write about current events
22 What is the weakest part of your design?
  1. Review viable chair designs.
  2. Using criteria and constraints for chairs build final chair designs in teams
  • Use teamwork, safe and professional work habits during construction.
21 Why do teams use roles?
       
17 How many days do you think it will take to build your chair?
  1. Build in the workshop.
  • Use teamwork, safe and professional work habits during construction.
16 Where should your team materials be stowed?
15 Look at the 2 designs, why does the one with flaps require less glue?
14 What are the minimum dimensions of the cardboard chairs?
  1. Assign roles in teams. Review the rubric.
  2. Review safety rules with cutters and hot glue.
  3. Gather everything we need and go to the workshop.
  4. Measure available materials and allocate equitably.
  • Evaluate and allocate resources
  • Review safety, guidelines and rubric.
13 Why are parts numbered on assembly directions?
  1. Review viable chair designs.
  2. Copy down the criteria and constraints for chairs.
  3. Build duplicate prototypes of final chair designs in teams
  • Reduce all choices to viable options
  • Determine group responsibilities for building parts.
       
10 Sketch the most efficient way to get 4 squares out of 1 piece of paper.
  1. Make improvements to model chairs.
  2. Add to your sketch of required parts. Number each part. Write assembly directions.
  3. Calculate how much cardboard is needed.
  • Use the design process to improve designs
  • Create assembly directions.
9 Is all cardboard corrugated?
  1. Draw a final sketch of your chair.
  2. Lay your pieces out flat on a sheet of paper, and trace.
  • Sketch final designs.
  • Draw parts diagram.
  • Calculate materials requirements
8 What does corrugated mean?
  1. Finish building a cardstock model of a cardboard chair at the scale 1" = 1' with a seat at least 1 1/4" high and a back at least 2 1/2" high.
  2. Today: hand in a paper telling how you could make your chair stronger, more comfortable, and more attractive or "cool"
  • Build a model
  • Suggest design improvements
7 In a 1" = 1' scale, how big would a standing person be?
  1. Build a cardstock model of a cardboard chair at the scale 1" = 1' with a seat at least 1 1/4" high and a back at least 2 1/2" high. When these are finished, and we have voted on which ones to produce, we will be meeting in the shop room downstairs. Check the rubric for points.
  • Build a model
6 Why is simple often better?
  1. How is cardboard manufactured?
  2. Write a paragraph in your booklet pg. 4 explaining which chair design you will build.
  3. Sketch 3 views of your design and write a list of required materials on pg 5. Hand in your booklet.
  • Select and justify a design
  • Sketch multiple views of a design
       
3 Which is easier to bend: index cards or cardboard?
  1. Discuss: what did we learn yesterday?
  2. Build and analyze support models: triangles, columns, zig zags, square mesh.
  • Construct, analyze and test different support structures.
groundhog day Describe a way to make a weak material, like cardboard, stronger.
  1. As part of the planning process, build a step stool with a 3" X 3" platform 3" high that will support a heavy weight and test it. Brainstorm, sketch, build and test.
  • Use the design process to design for strength.
1 Why do new chairs continue to be designed?
  1. Use the design process to prepare to design and build a working cardboard chair.
    1st research, get ideas, plan and brainstorm.
    2nd build a model out of cardstock
    3rd build a full size cardboard chair.
    Check the rubric for points.

  • Use the design process to generate ideas, create a model and then build a prototype
January 2017
Date Warm-up Class Activities Objectives. SWBAT:
31 What do all chairs have in common?
  1. Sketch ideas for an original, art-inspired chair.
  2. Design a sitting lounge in http://www.homestyler.com/designer . Create a 25'X15' room with areas for children, study, conversation and quiet relaxation for at least 15 people to sit and relax.
  • Create an art inspired design
30 List 2 design principals (Covered in class last week)
  1. Look at the Smithsonian chair design challenge and winners.
  2. Does art inspire design that can be scaled?
  3. Look at the chair design process, evaluate some chairs and design one.
  • Compare different creative designs.
       
26 Define engineer (verb)
  1. Look at the presentation on design principles. Evaluate classroom furniture (3 chairs) based on the design principles.
  • Evaluate objects based on engineering design principles.
25 Why does a startup company need money from an investor to grow large?
  1. Discuss what successful manufacturing looks like starting up.
  2. Look at American success stories in manufacturing. Look at the Maryland success stories. Why do NY, PA, IL, MI, SC , NJ and MN have so many more success stories?
  3. Discuss local manufacturing: Radnor Manufacturing
  4. Assignment
  • Describe traits of successful manufacturing
24 List 2 products that people could make for themselves instead of buying.
  1. America wants to grow existing manufacturing businesses and start new ones. What does it take to start a new manufacturing business? A good idea, a good plan and the money to make it happen. Watch these 2 Shark Tank videos and answer the questions either on paper or in OneNote in the Manufacturing section.
  • Describe what is needed to grow a manufacturing business from a small, private operation into a big one.
23 What is an advantage of knowing how to make your own products?
  1. Hand-made specialty items are popular now and worth good money.
  2. On a blank sheet of paper, answer the questions about how homemade soap is made.
  3. Choose one other product that can be made at home from the list below. Describe the process and say whether or not you think it is worth doing and why. HAND IN PAPERS TODAY.
    1. jewelery
    2. ketchup
    3. bread
    4. phone case
  • Identify steps in a home made manufacturing process.
  • Recommend whether or not a home made production process is practical or desirable
       
20 What extra quality control is needed for food products?
  1. Brainstorm original ideas for a soap holder for bar soap that could be used in school restrooms. Why or why not is this practical?
  2. In office 365 design a survey for customer satisfaction with soap that includes at least 4 questions.
  3. Put the link to your survey on the Soap Collaboration page next to your name.
  • Design product holders
  • Create an online survey
Link to first semester

NASA wind tunnels https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/airplane/bgt.html

Add codes and lines to allow Ozobot to arrive at the Finish after knocking over 3 pins.

Discover examples of human powered devices. Create a poster for a human powered device from engineering for change or alternative energy news. Print a picture and write 2 sentences of the best features in your own words.

robot light and other sensors https://www.teachengineering.org/lessons/view/umo_sensorswork_lesson05

balloon hovercar https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qbAuaN8wIvA

Design and race a solar car

Design a paper car to travel down a ramp http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/process_of_science/examples/papercar.html

Smithsonian: how things fly http://howthingsfly.si.edu/activities
forces of flight, how do things fly? interactive http://howthingsfly.si.edu/activities/forces-flight

 

  1. Look at the 7 pictures in this lesson on chair design. Print out this paper, answer the questions, hand them in today.
  2. Sorry for the change of plans, we will go back to the workshop tomorrow. Finish building chairs on Monday.
  • compare function and design of artistic chairs
What kind of program is Sketch Up?
  1. Practice modeling components and putting them together to get ready to reverse engineer your chair design by creating the parts in Sketch Up and putting them all together. SAVE ON YOUR H DRIVE.
  • Use 3D modeling

 

Build a motor https://www.wired.com/2016/01/how-to-build-a-super-simple-electric-motor-out-of-stuff-you-already-have/

Build a potato battery https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cub_energy2_lesson04_activity2

build a simple generator http://www.amasci.com/amateur/coilgen.html

create a cardboard guitar

build a wind generator http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/environment/how-to/g118/make-your-own-miniature-wind-turbine/

 

If sketchup is working, watch the videos and do the Navigation Challenge! – open the file labeled "navigation challenge.skp" Stack the similar shapes using the move and rotation tools then work on your original solar workshop.