Design Challenge Project
Students will be able to apply their knowledge of discount and tax to re-design a room in their home on a budget, buying new items and calculating given discounts and tax.
Gearing Up! Part 2 (Gear Ratios)
Students are exposed to how gears provide torque everyday. From shifting gears while riding a bike or learning to drive a car, gears make work easier.
During this lesson, students will define and identify what gear ratios are and how it can be use. They will use the different size spur gears available in the LEGO system to make working examples of different gear ratios.
Gearing Up! Part 1 (Gear Functions
Students are exposed to gears everyday. From the buses and cars that deliver them to school to the clocks to that tell them when to leave, gears move and motivate our students. During this lesson, students will learn the four basic functions of gears. They will use the different size spur gears available in the LEGO system to make working examples of each of the four basic functions of a gear.
Energy Transformations Pt 2
Students will have the opportunity to create their own energy transformations using a Lego Mindstorms robot, sensors, and the Lego NXT Program. They will then develop an energy transformations practice activity for other students based upon the energy transformations they created for their robot.
Energy Transformations Pt 1
Students have already learned the six forms of energy (MR.CENT – Mechanical, Radiant, Chemical, Electrical, Nuclear, Thermal). They will identify each form of energy in an energy chain – tracing the transformations of energy to view concrete examples of the Law of Conservation of Energy.
Robot Gears and Ratios
Build a lego gear system with a combination of gear sizes to learn about ratios.
Program the Bot
Programming the NXT robot to move forward
Hockey Robot and Probability
Build a hockey robot that will shoot goal from different distance and determine the probability from each distance
Building a Brick Flower Bed
The students will be working in groups of 5 to apply their knowledge of area, perimeter, and measurement to build a brick retaining wall around the school’s flower bed. The students will assess the condition of the bed and take measurement. The students will be landscape architects and be asked by the school to design and build retaining wall for the schools flower bed.