Scheve's White 3 Principles of Technology

by Jeanna Scheve
August 21, 2009

Unit 1: Innovation

8/19 - IDEO DVD
8/21 - Innovate an object project! Class presentations on 8/24!

8/25 - Building and class presentations; Innovation rubric
8/27 - Finished presentations; Forces in Mechanical Systems(stopped at slide #22), determine our own weight in Newtons!, started on Building Big Challenge website and worksheet. If you were absent for your presentation, you must make it up during seminar. Thanks!

8/31 - PT Quiz 1 - Unit 1, Building Big Worksheet finished; Building Big: Bridges video (make up during seminar)
9/2 -PT Quiz 2 - Unit 1; Finish Building Big Video & Worksheet; Begin bridge design plans
9/4 - Bridge design plans - Day 1; Building Big: Bridges video continued

9/8 - Finish Building Big: Bridges video; Rough sketch of bridge designs - Day 2
9/10 - Day 3 - Scale drawings due along with budget. Begin building next Thursday, Sept. 17th!

9/15 - Bridges Webquest
Link #1
Link #2: Bridge Building games
9/17-9/30 - Bridge Building Project/Budget tracking

10/2 - Bridge Building Competition - scoring guide

10/6 & 10/8 - Bridge Awards & Forces in Fluid Systems.
10/12 & 10/14 -Gas Properties PHET Simulation
1st Quarter Wrap up

10/19 - Density/Pressure Demos & Finish simulations
10/21 - Demo Videos & sheet; Boat Design Work
10/23 - Buoyancy review; Buoyancy Boat Challenge
10/27-11/13 - Boat building and testing
11/17 - Boat Competition Day!

11/17 - Buoyancy Quiz Sheet
11/23 - The Abyss

11/30 - Boat Awards; Forces in Electrical Systems
12/2 - Electricity PPT; Phet Simulation Website

12/10 - Parallel resistor calculator

12/14 - Electricity ILP

January: Junkyard Wars: Air Movers, Hovercraft project measuring force, work, power, and horse power.

February: KS Career Pipeline, Resumes, Guest speakers, job skills for the future

March: Alice computer programming

Mousetrap car project - Mousetrap Car Webquest

ALICE - RACE CAR GAME

ENERGY UNIT:

Energy Webquest Link for Cake Game

Earth Day Energy Adventure!

FLIGHT UNIT:
Flight Webquest
Wing warping simulation
Flight Assessment

Weekly Class Activities for Scheve's Students
Scheve's Schedule
About Mrs. Scheve

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