STEM SCHOOL

This lesson is designed to pair with an online interactive lab on pbs.org. It explores what forces and loads are present in various kinds of structures. In addition it offers the opportunity to look at types of materials that are typically used to create a structure and the strengths and weakness of each.

This lesson introduces the simple machine of a lever, helps students to learn to distinguish between the 3 classes of levers. It includes reading informational text, class discussion, group/partner work, and a building project.

This lesson teaches the basics of loads and forces that a structure will need to bear. I use the interactive labs at pbs.org Building Big website to allow students to learn about these loads and forces in an engaging way. This bundle includes the student's journal template for their STEM interactive journal, common core and engineering standards, and Lesson Dialogue.

First Lesson of an Engineering Unit called STRUCTURES. My students each have an STEM INTERACTIVE JOURNAL in a composition notebook so most of my lessons have templates that are designed to glue into that journal. **This free resource includes the common core standards, engineering standards, a Prezi presentation and the lesson dialogue. The student's interactive journal template is a separate item listed with the same title plus interactive journal template.