This article follows up on the discussion of the design process from our January professional development. They show the process through an design lesson on maglev trains where students create cars for a maglev track.
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Molly O'Donoghue's 4th grade class spent time designing a prototype structure that Miwok's could have built using natural resources. They tested out their designs on an Earthquake shake table and re-designed based on those tests.
Eddie Gutierrez's 5th grade class experimented with parachutes in class. They all made a parachute to the same specifications. They used what they discovered to design a parachute that will carefully carry an egg safely to the ground. (see videos below)
Videos of the parachute/egg drop.... 2nd iterations coming later in the Spring....
This ties in very nicely with the parachute lesson from January. 3-5 grade teachers check it out!
The Miller Creek 7th grade teachers, Sue Holland, Janice Woods, and Erik Lunde, took the arm lesson from the September PD and transformed it into a bio-engineering lesson for the students to showcase their knowledge of how the arm works in creating a prosthetic arm. Video's from year 2 iteration!
Thanks Mary-Clare Neal! Fabulous math tie in with proportions and gears.
Thanks Jenny Cavanna! Great STEM lesson for 3rd grade!.
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iTEAMS is a professional development research project designed to provide teachers with support to deepen their content knowledge and pedagogy to promote STEM education aligned to the Common Core State Standards in Mathematics (CCSS) and Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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