Simple Machines Design Challenge and Discovery Unit

Description

Simple machines make work easier by reducing the amount of force needed or changing the direction of the force needed to do a task. Work smarter, not harder! Six simple machines that we will build include: levers, wedges, ramps, wheels and axles, screws, and pulleys.

This packet includes several design challenge task cards (including some blank ones) that classmates can use to either compete among themselves or collaborate as a team. Try it both ways!

Also included is a graphic organizer for some of the more elaborate challenges, provided there is time to really think through the process (rather than product) and possibly improve the design in the future.

After designing, don’t forget to have classmates present their solutions to the group and discuss any challenges or insights they experienced along the way.

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Simple Machines Design Challenge and Discovery Unit

Name: Simple Machines Design Challenge and Discovery Unit
Brand: Beautiful Mathematics
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Grades

3rd - 6th

Subjects

Basic Principles, Engineering, Physical Science

Standards

CCSSMP2

CCSSMP3

CCSSMP4

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This packet includes several design challenge task cards (including some blank ones) that classmates can use to either compete among themselves or collaborate as a team. Try it both ways!

After designing, don’t forget to have classmates present their solutions to the group and discuss any challenges or insights they experienced along the way.

Please follow me to hear about new discounts, freebies and product launches.

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Standards

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CCSSMP2

Reason abstractly and quantitatively. Mathematically proficient students make sense of quantities and their relationships in problem situations. They bring two complementary abilities to bear on problems involving quantitative relationships: the ability to decontextualize-to abstract a given situation and represent it symbolically and manipulate the representing symbols as if they have a life of their own, without necessarily attending to their referents-and the ability to contextualize, to pause as needed during the manipulation process in order to probe into the referents for the symbols involved. Quantitative reasoning entails habits of creating a coherent representation of the problem at hand; considering the units involved; attending to the meaning of quantities, not just how to compute them; and knowing and flexibly using different properties of operations and objects.

CCSSMP3

Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. Mathematically proficient students understand and use stated assumptions, definitions, and previously established results in constructing arguments. They make conjectures and build a logical progression of statements to explore the truth of their conjectures. They are able to analyze situations by breaking them into cases, and can recognize and use counterexamples. They justify their conclusions, communicate them to others, and respond to the arguments of others. They reason inductively about data, making plausible arguments that take into account the context from which the data arose. Mathematically proficient students are also able to compare the effectiveness of two plausible arguments, distinguish correct logic or reasoning from that which is flawed, and-if there is a flaw in an argument-explain what it is. Elementary students can construct arguments using concrete referents such as objects, drawings, diagrams, and actions. Such arguments can make sense and be correct, even though they are not generalized or made formal until later grades. Later, students learn to determine domains to which an argument applies. Students at all grades can listen or read the arguments of others, decide whether they make sense, and ask useful questions to clarify or improve the arguments.

CCSSMP4

Model with mathematics. Mathematically proficient students can apply the mathematics they know to solve problems arising in everyday life, society, and the workplace. In early grades, this might be as simple as writing an addition equation to describe a situation. In middle grades, a student might apply proportional reasoning to plan a school event or analyze a problem in the community. By high school, a student might use geometry to solve a design problem or use a function to describe how one quantity of interest depends on another. Mathematically proficient students who can apply what they know are comfortable making assumptions and approximations to simplify a complicated situation, realizing that these may need revision later. They are able to identify important quantities in a practical situation and map their relationships using such tools as diagrams, two-way tables, graphs, flowcharts and formulas. They can analyze those relationships mathematically to draw conclusions. They routinely interpret their mathematical results in the context of the situation and reflect on whether the results make sense, possibly improving the model if it has not served its purpose.