Description
A best practice lesson for the teaching of physical science or GATE talent pools:
In this lesson, students use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.
There are no set patterns, pre-cut materials, or teacher-led building instructions here! Students engage in the engineering process to design and build their own working models of cranes. The teacher sets guidelines and limitations, provides feedback and monitors progress, instructs the students in background physics concepts, and provides a rubric. The rest depends upon the innovative and creative processes of the students.
After a review of simple machines, students discover physics concepts including force, potential energy, kinetic energy, and Newton’s laws of motion. Then it’s time to build the cranes which will be evaluated based upon a rubric.
Does this lesson look like your style? Perhaps you'd prefer the entire unit? See STEM: Renaissance Style in the Portable Gifted and Talented Store
In this lesson, students use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.
There are no set patterns, pre-cut materials, or teacher-led building instructions here! Students engage in the engineering process to design and build their own working models of cranes. The teacher sets guidelines and limitations, provides feedback and monitors progress, instructs the students in background physics concepts, and provides a rubric. The rest depends upon the innovative and creative processes of the students.
After a review of simple machines, students discover physics concepts including force, potential energy, kinetic energy, and Newton’s laws of motion. Then it’s time to build the cranes which will be evaluated based upon a rubric.
Does this lesson look like your style? Perhaps you'd prefer the entire unit? See STEM: Renaissance Style in the Portable Gifted and Talented Store
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The Crane Design and Building Challenge -- STEM Problem Solving
Mark Hess & Portable Gifted and Talented
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Grades
4th - 8th
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Pages
10
Teaching Duration
1 Week
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Description
A best practice lesson for the teaching of physical science or GATE talent pools:
In this lesson, students use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.
There are no set patterns, pre-cut materials, or teacher-led building instructions here! Students engage in the engineering process to design and build their own working models of cranes. The teacher sets guidelines and limitations, provides feedback and monitors progress, instructs the students in background physics concepts, and provides a rubric. The rest depends upon the innovative and creative processes of the students.
After a review of simple machines, students discover physics concepts including force, potential energy, kinetic energy, and Newton’s laws of motion. Then it’s time to build the cranes which will be evaluated based upon a rubric.
Does this lesson look like your style? Perhaps you'd prefer the entire unit? See STEM: Renaissance Style in the Portable Gifted and Talented Store
In this lesson, students use the engineering process to build a working crane model that is strong enough to lift a stapler.
There are no set patterns, pre-cut materials, or teacher-led building instructions here! Students engage in the engineering process to design and build their own working models of cranes. The teacher sets guidelines and limitations, provides feedback and monitors progress, instructs the students in background physics concepts, and provides a rubric. The rest depends upon the innovative and creative processes of the students.
After a review of simple machines, students discover physics concepts including force, potential energy, kinetic energy, and Newton’s laws of motion. Then it’s time to build the cranes which will be evaluated based upon a rubric.
Does this lesson look like your style? Perhaps you'd prefer the entire unit? See STEM: Renaissance Style in the Portable Gifted and Talented Store
Report this resource to TPT
Reported resources will be reviewed by our team. Report this resource to let us know if this resource violates TPT's content guidelines.
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Fantastic resource for my students.
Thank you so much for this! It made my planning and teaching summer school so much easier this year!
A great resource - very easy to implement! Practical and useful!
Helpful resource.
This resource was easy to follow and a great way to stretch my gifted students. There were great tips and tricks along the way. It is clear this is a a tried lesson, not just a grand idea.
Great!
awesome
Love your projects, so very well organized and easily adaptable to older students.
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