THIRD GRADE l Engineering Design Process I Growth Mindset I Know your Tools
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Lab Happenings
BIG UNDERSTANDINGS
Inquiry Questions
What do engineers do? How can I learn how to think like an engineer? How can I learn how to work like an engineer? Who am I as a learner, a friend, and a member of my community? How do we honor other voices in our community? How can I, as a unique community member, show pride for my culture and celebrate other cultures?
Engineering Challenges
Know Your Tools
Student Centered Designs and Problem Scoping
21st Century Skills: Collaboration and Growth Mindset
Tinkering (We can learn how to do anything! We can design our own education!)
Tech Time
Ask Your Engineer
(While doing your daily reading together or watching a movie...) So, what is _____'s problem? What could you do as an engineer to help? (If you have time, maybe you could even build a prototype!)
Other At Home Ideas
What do engineers do? How can I learn how to think like an engineer? How can I learn how to work like an engineer? Who am I as a learner, a friend, and a member of my community? How do we honor other voices in our community? How can I, as a unique community member, show pride for my culture and celebrate other cultures?
Engineering Challenges
- After reading Westlandia by Paul Fleischman, we used the materials provided (constraints) to design and make a bouncy ball game to share with the community.
- Weekly challenges have been happening in the classroom as well! They have designed devices to get things un-stuck from a tree and built prototypes of homes that could survive the tornado of the Wizard of OZ.
Know Your Tools
- Hot glue guns come in handy!
- We did some wire work using pliers.
- Using pumpkins and golf tees, we learned how to use a hammer safely.
- "Measure twice! Cut once!"
- We have started making our centerpiece! We prepared stencils for the mill. A 10x10 square and a 9 3/4 x 8 3/4 rectangle. Our wood will be here Monday!
- Is your foot a foot?
- Gummy Worm Strecth-a-Thon.... How far can it go?
- Go on a measurement hunt around the lab. Using a ruler or a tape measure, can you find 3 things that are an inch? A foot? A yard? A 1/2 inch?
- We practiced using screwdrivers safely.
Student Centered Designs and Problem Scoping
- Look around the lab, your classroom, the school. Do you see a problem that needs to be solved? Can you think of something we still need around school to be more organized? Safe? How about turning water bottle tossing into a legitimate recess game? etc. So far...
- water bottle carriers, dollhouse furniture, and more
- one of our engineers is designing a headphone organizer for her teacher's classroom
- two students are making "Out on Fieldwork" signs for every classroom
- boxes are being made to be set around campus in order to collect engineering problems that the community would like us to solve
- an origami paper tray is being made for the engineering lab
- Design the ultimate engineering folder. Students added cool features and moveable pieces to their engineering folders. Their ideas ranged from pockets and pencil holders to moving light sabers! Clever!
21st Century Skills: Collaboration and Growth Mindset
- Roll the Dice ice breaker game
- Jenga with Table Talker dots
- Play Spot It! with your team
- Play Bubble Talk but first...read the directions!
- Without touching the cups, and only using the provided tool (a rubber band with 4 strings attached), work together as a team to build a red cup pyramid. Teams had a blast working through several iterations of this challenge.
Tinkering (We can learn how to do anything! We can design our own education!)
- Origami cubes!
- Here is the link to our favorite finger knitting how-to video https://youtu.be/MsZsUBYU0qU.
- Do you like to figure things out or do you like to have someone show you what to do? Think about it as you make origami hopping frogs.
- Spooling Around! Help each other read to follow the directions and to make a wind up toy.
Tech Time
- Exploring our new Stop Motion app (by Cateater). Maybe we can use it to show our cube building process?
- Coding at Studio.code.org (Course 2)
Ask Your Engineer
(While doing your daily reading together or watching a movie...) So, what is _____'s problem? What could you do as an engineer to help? (If you have time, maybe you could even build a prototype!)
Other At Home Ideas
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Can You Help?
Folks often ask me, "How can I help?" If you are interested in supporting the Engineering Lab through donating your time or materials, please shoot me an email ([email protected]). As our projects get fleshed out, I'll also post a wish list. In the meantime, if you're looking to donate, we always need toilet paper rolls and masking tape. LOTS AND LOTS OF MASKING TAPE. Thanks!
Folks often ask me, "How can I help?" If you are interested in supporting the Engineering Lab through donating your time or materials, please shoot me an email ([email protected]). As our projects get fleshed out, I'll also post a wish list. In the meantime, if you're looking to donate, we always need toilet paper rolls and masking tape. LOTS AND LOTS OF MASKING TAPE. Thanks!