Bridge+Project

 BRIDGE PROJECT

Area of Interaction: Human Ingen uity  === 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: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> [|Game 1:] Click "Level 1" to begin

[|Game 2:] Click "Start" to begin

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Design Brief: (Day 2) Requirements: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">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. <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Questions: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">1. What is the strongest type of bridge? Beam Bridge 2. What bridge would work best for me? Pratt Truss because it has many triangle which have the strongest structure. 3. What geometric shape is the strongest structure? Triangle 4. Other questions and answers you may have: <span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Research Sites to Help You Answer the Questions Above: [|How Stuff Works:] [|Instructables:] [|Student Ideas:] [|Truss Bridge:] [|Building a Bridge:] [|eHow:]

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">PLAN: (1/2 Day) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">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.

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">CREATE: (4 DAYS) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">7. Did you use all of the glue, popsicle sticks and other materials appropriately? Yes, we did. 8. Did you work with your group members appropriately? Yes'sir!

<span style="color: #800000; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">EVALUATION: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">9. Did you research bridge types? Yes 10. Did your bridge hold 100 pounds? yes 11. How much weight did your bridge hold? 116 12. What would you do differently next time? Make the sides stronger. 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. We did well on looking for a good bridge structure. 2. We need to improve on looking for more bridge designs Plan: 1. Eh not so good. 2. Add more to it. Create: 1. We did well on putting it together. 2. Communicating with each other. <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;"> Evaluate: 1. 2. 14. Were you responsible and safe with all your materials? Yes 15. Did you follow all my rules in the classroom? Yes 16. Did you meet all the requirements for this assignment? Yes 17. How is the Design Cycle important to the successful outcome of a project?

It helped us work faster and kept out things organized
<span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">18. What grade do you deserve on this unit? (1 - 6) A fivee[: 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 <span style="display: block; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">