An engaging lesson using Dash robot to help students identify and describe different attributes of landforms.

Students will learn about sound and how sound moves. Students then work together to make an instrument (a kazoo) to make sound.

Students will explain how various forces affect the motion of an object.
Students know that a magnet pulls on all things made of iron without touching them, and that this pulling can result in motion. Students know that a magnet attracts some metals, but not all of them. Students know that a magnet has a force field and poles that determine how a metal affected by the magnet will behave within its field.

Students will make a car move using the forces of magnets to turn around, go backwards, and drive along a path without touching it.

Students will build a balloon powered car.

After reading the book, If I Built A Car, by Chris Van Dusen, https://youtu.be/t-uX-5DyULA students will build a balloon powered car. We will test each car to see which car travels the farthest,

Using the materials- balloons, straws, string, tape, and weights students will design a rocket that will travel to a certain distance such as between 4 and 5 meters. Students will measure the distance of their attempts and record results. They will design a balloon rocket that will travel to the target area and not beyond by discovering the relationship between force and mass.

In this lesson, students will design a packaging system to keep their apple slices as fresh as possible over 24 hours. They will use various materials as part of their package and will be able to place apples in different temperature environments for testing (in classroom, by a window, or outside, for example).

Students will understand how energy can be transferred from one object to another by designing, building, and testing a wind-powered car to deliver a message across the classroom.

Students discover engineering and use the design thinking process to create prototypes to show their learning about engineering. 

Students are asked to build a nest that will keep a bird and 3 eggs safe. Nest must hold a bird and 3 plastic eggs and balance on tree branch.

Learners will become paleontologists for a day. They will discover this career and undertake the challenge of designing a fossil excavator structure to remove newly discovered fossils stuck in a cave crevice. As a class, graph the results on the amount of weight each structure could lift without breaking.

These are the slides that Cohort 1 folks utilized to generate ideas and make connections on 4/19/22.

The bunny has forgotten to deliver an egg. Design a structure for the bunny to safely deliver the missing egg without the bunny being seen (drop from above) and without the egg breaking.

Students will be given a variety of materials. They are tasked with building a structure (ie: parachute, cage, etc.) to safely drop their egg to the floor without it breaking.

Students will create a small planter for a type of soil and water. The planter can be made from any materials the student wants and must be able to maintain its shape and hold the soil and water without leaking.

Design and build extensions onto the Driving Base and program it to complete two tasks. Students will learn and practice engineering and manufacturing techniques, cooperation and teamwork skills as they build and code an Autonomous Mobile Robot.

Students construct a bridge that will get Cupid to his destination and withstand all of his Valentines. They will build a bridge with only candy hearts and toothpicks.

Students will work in small groups of 2 or 3 to design a zipline and zipline cart to carry coins from point “A” to point “B”. The goal of this activity is for students transport 82 cents the fastest from point “A” to point “B”. Groups must transport exactly 82 cents from the top of the zip line to the bottom. They must use at least 1 quarter, 1 dime, 1 nickel and 1 penny.

Students will use the engineering design process to design and create a simple protective helmet to understand the role of the human skeletal system in protection, specifically the skull.
Understanding how the human body systems are essential for life: protection (skull protecting the brain), movement (discuss how the helmet design could allow for movement), and support (structure of the helmet supporting the egg).
This activity provides a hands-on, practical application of the engineering design process while reinforcing the importance of the skeletal system, specifically the skull, in protecting vital organs.

Each group will build a different building 2-level wing of the team's school in one day but can only use the materials provided to the team. Each wing must include several classrooms for drones to survey and land.