Bridge+project

BRIDGE PROJECT Area of Interaction: Human Ingenuity === 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: [|Game 1:] Click "Level 1" to begin

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

Design Brief: (Day 2) Requirements: Your bridge should cross over an index card. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Your bridge should be 5 - 6 inches high. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Your bridge should 4 - 5 inches wide. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Your bridge should hold at least 100 pounds. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">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? Suspention <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2. What bridge would work best for me? Suspention <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">3. What geometric shape is the strongest structure? tringle <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">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. <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">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 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">8. Did you work with your group members appropriately? Yes

<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? ALOT of them <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">10. Did your bridge hold 100 pounds? I think that it will <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">11. How much weight did your bridge hold? 258 <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">12. What would you do differently next time? Make the bridge stronger so it could hold more pounds <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">13. Reflect on all the steps of the Design Cycle. What did you do well? What do you need to improve? Use less sticks next time (Notice that there are two questions, answer both of them!) <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Investigate: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">1. We investigate how strong the bridge was and how many pounds it could hold <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2. We also investigated what type of bridge we were going to use.... <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Plan: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">1. we divided each day to work on one side <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2. we added the little but important thing the last time <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Create: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">1.We used wood glue and then we used that hot glue........ <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2. we tired to make everything the way that it was in the pictrue <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Evaluate: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">1. Make it so the bridge could hold the pounds <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">2.It was to small <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">14. Were you responsible and safe with all your materials? Yes <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">15. Did you follow all my rules in the classroom? Yes <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">16. Did you meet all the requirements for this assignment? yes <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">17. How is the Design Cycle important to the successful outcome of a project?

<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)

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">How you will be Graded: <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Investigate = 10 points <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Plan = 10 points <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Create = 20 points <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Evaluate = 15 points <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Completing all of the requirements = 40 points <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">5 points for being nice

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Arial Black',Gadget,sans-serif; font-size: 17px;">Total = 100 points