TechDesign

Technological Design - Engineering

MS-ETS1-1. Evidence Statement
Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.

MS-ETS1-2. Evidence Statement
Evaluate competing design solutions using a systematic process to determine how well they meet the criteria and constraints of the problem.

MS-ETS1-3. Evidence Statement
Analyze data from tests to determine similarities and differences among several design solutions to identify the best characteristics of each that can be combined into a new solution to better meet the criteria for success.

MS-ETS1-4. Evidence Statement
Develop a model to generate data for iterative testing and modification of a proposed object, tool, or process such that an optimal design can be achieved.How do ideas become things we use?

Packet

PS 2-1 Egg Drop Project

(standard PS2-1) Design of a crash protector (i.e. car bumper or egg-drop vehicle.) Bing Image Search for "Egg Drop Competition"

Technical Drawing (Blueprint) Template
K'Nex Bridges Lesson - Square vs Triangle
1. MiniBridge
Construction: Wood
Construction - Paper Structures
1. Beams & Tubes
2. Boxes
Construction - Straw Structures
- Basic Joints
- Straw Tower

Thermal Energy Project MS-PS3-3
Apply scientific principles to design, construct, and test a device that either minimizes or maximizes thermal energy transfer. (i.e. Insulating device or cooker*)

Design Packet
Blueprint Template & pptx
(Example from book)
Can Insulator Example
*cooking devices may not use combustable fuels.
Tech Design Essay
1. PowerPoint - download and save
2. 2-sheet pdf
3. Draft Word Docx

Gravity Racer Project

Design, build, test, and improve on your own gravity-powered vehicle that can travel over 1 meter down a ramp.

Newton Scooter Project

Design, build, test, and improve on your own self- powered vehicle that can travel over 1 meter on a flat surface or in level flight.

Newton Scooter design guide web page
Self-Propelled Vehicles links and gallery
Technical Drawing (Blueprint) Template
NewtonScooter Resources Folder
Data Sheet
Tech Paper Worksheet
Mouse Trap Vehicles Video

BrainPop Animations and Practice Quizes

Vocabulary

The Process of Design

Robert Fulton: Engineering Booklet

Reading Worksheet

Mechanical Engineering Booklet

Reading Worksheet

Machines Make It Move Booklet

Synthesis Worksheet

Labs & Videos

Action-Reaction Lunar Lander write up an experiment based on this activity.	Action-Reaction Projectile Motion write up an experiment based on this activity.	Gizmos- Fan Car Lab Action-Reaction Worksheet write up an experiment	Ramp: Forces & Motion write up an experiment based on this activity.
	Museum of Science and Industry Game	COSI Tutorial	Zoom GoldBurg Invention

Disney Imagineering Design Video Viewing Questions Pearson Work and Machines	Nye Structures Video -SchoolTube Quiz	Nye Simple Machines Video - SchoolTube Quiz	Nye Inventions - Shooltube
Prentice Hall Video Technology and Engineering	Design of a crash protector MS-PS2-1 Apply Newton's Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects. (i.e. car bumper or egg-drop vehicle.) Search: "school project car crash" "school project egg drop" (standard PS2-1) Crash Design - PS2-1 Worksheet		Simple Machines

Engage

Discrepant Event

Explore

Research

Explain

Write-Up

Elaborate

New situations/applications

Evaluate

project to share

Reading & Math Work

Reading

Math and Data

Projects by Learning Style and Media Type

Video/Animation Make a video or animation of something interacting with action-reaction forces or momentum (see options above.) Narrate, subtitle, or text page to show this week's concepts.	Presentation Create a PowerPoint, ToonDoo, or other graphic that shows one of the projects above.
Podcast Audio Make a radio show, podcast, or song about something interacting with action-reaction forces or momentum (see options above.) Narrate, subtitle, or text page to show this week's concepts.	Live Presentation Project Make a poster, play, song or cartoon showing your understanding of how things interact with action-reaction forces or momentum.

Essential Vocabulary & Concepts

Picture	Core Knowledge or Concept
	Technology things that are designed and built by humans for humans to use. Engineering the use of scientific knowledge and technolgies to design and build things for human use. The Technologcial Design Framework is a step-by-step cycle that guides the design, building, and testing of any technological product. MMS uses 7 steps.
	1. Clarify the Design Problem specifications are the requirements for the final product. constraints: the limits put on the design or materials performance: things it does. output: things it makes.
	2. Research and Investigate the Problem. What are the needs? What other products/solutions are out there? What materials and techniques are available?
	3. Generate Alternative Designs. Brainstorming many different ideas to choose from. designs? materials? building techniques?
	4. Choose and Justify the Optimal Solution. List the strengths and weaknesses of the alternative designs cost? time? building simplicity?
	5. Develop the Prototype. Technical Drawings and blueprints are used to work out design problems. A scale model is a model made at a different size. A prototype is a full-scale or regular sized working model.
	6. Test and Evaluate the Design Solution. Develop one or more tests to assess the performance of the design. Tests may suggest changes to make to the design. Define your variables. Tests must match the design specifications from step 1
	7. Redesign the Solution. Make any design changes suggested by the tests� Re-Enter the Design Cycle at Any Step in the Cycle.
	Pugh Charts: are used to check if a design meets the specifications (requirements) of a design. Usually used to compare designs (columns) against each specification (rows.)
	Scientists Robert Goddard, the father of rocketry in the early 20th century Wernher von Braun, developed the Atlas rocket for the United States. His rockets were powerful enough for NASA's space program and, along with competing Soviet scientists created intercontinental ballistic missiles that could have destroyed the world.
	Technology Self Propelled Vehicles: use the principles of action-reaction to move themselves by converting stored energy to moving (kinetic) energy Newton Scooters and the Technological Design Cycle