Design Brief: (Day 2) Requirements: Your bridge should cross over an index card. Your bridge should be 5 - 6 inches high. Your bridge should 4 - 5 inches wide. Your bridge should hold at least 100 pounds. You get one handful of popsicle sticks. Questions: 1. What is the strongest type of bridge?. Any bridge with Triangular shapes in it will be strong. 2. What bridge would work best for me? A truss bridge. 3. What geometric shape is the strongest structure? A Triangle. 4. Other questions and answers you may have: No I don't. Research Sites to Help You Answer the Questions Above: How Stuff Works: Instructables: Student Ideas: Truss Bridge: Building a Bridge: eHow:
PLAN: (1/2 Day) 5. Use a blank piece of paper to draw a rough draft of your bridge. 6. On your paper include why you think this bridge will hold the most weight.
CREATE: (4 DAYS) 7. Did you use all of the glue, popsicle sticks and other materials appropriately? 8. Did you work with your group members appropriately?
EVALUATION: 9. Did you research bridge types? 10. Did your bridge hold 100 pounds? 11. How much weight did your bridge hold? 12. What would you do differently next time? 13. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? (Notice that there are two questions, answer both of them!) Investigate: 1. 2. Plan: 1. 2. Create: 1. 2. Evaluate: 1. 2. 14. Were you responsible and safe with all your materials? 15. Did you follow all my rules in the classroom? 16. Did you meet all the requirements for this assignment? 17. How is the Design Cycle important to the successful outcome of a project?
18. What grade do you deserve on this unit? (1 - 6)
How you will be Graded: Investigate = 10 points Plan = 10 points Create = 20 points Evaluate = 15 points Completing all of the requirements = 40 points 5 points for being nice
Area of Interaction: Human Ingenuity
Significant Concepts: Basic design concepts.
Unit Question: How is the Design Cycle important to the successful outcome of a project?
INVESTIGATE: (Day 1)Spend one day playing the following games:
Game 1:
Click "Level 1" to begin
Game 2:
Click "Start" to begin
Design Brief: (Day 2)
Requirements:
Your bridge should cross over an index card.
Your bridge should be 5 - 6 inches high.
Your bridge should 4 - 5 inches wide.
Your bridge should hold at least 100 pounds.
You get one handful of popsicle sticks.
Questions:
1. What is the strongest type of bridge?.
Any bridge with Triangular shapes in it will be strong.
2. What bridge would work best for me?
A truss bridge.
3. What geometric shape is the strongest structure?
A Triangle.
4. Other questions and answers you may have:
No I don't.
Research Sites to Help You Answer the Questions Above:
How Stuff Works:
Instructables:
Student Ideas:
Truss Bridge:
Building a Bridge:
eHow:
PLAN: (1/2 Day)
5. Use a blank piece of paper to draw a rough draft of your bridge.
6. On your paper include why you think this bridge will hold the most weight.
CREATE: (4 DAYS)
7. Did you use all of the glue, popsicle sticks and other materials appropriately?
8. Did you work with your group members appropriately?
EVALUATION:
9. Did you research bridge types?
10. Did your bridge hold 100 pounds?
11. How much weight did your bridge hold?
12. What would you do differently next time?
13. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? (Notice that there are two questions, answer both of them!)
Investigate:
1.
2.
Plan:
1.
2.
Create:
1.
2.
Evaluate:
1.
2.
14. Were you responsible and safe with all your materials?
15. Did you follow all my rules in the classroom?
16. Did you meet all the requirements for this assignment?
17. How is the Design Cycle important to the successful outcome of a project?
18. What grade do you deserve on this unit? (1 - 6)How you will be Graded:
Investigate = 10 points
Plan = 10 points
Create = 20 points
Evaluate = 15 points
Completing all of the requirements = 40 points
5 points for being nice
Total = 100 points