Understanding Goals

The essential questions listed below guide our thinking throughout the entire unit and led to more specific questioning.

    1. What is an engineer?
    2. What is the design cycle?
    3. Why are certain materials good for certain jobs?
    4. What does it mean to work in a group?

The more specific learning goals are divided into the following three sections:

The challenge / content – based goals 

        1. SWBAT* create two models of boats in a team.
        2. SWBAT apply their understanding of a design cycle to their own challenge.
        3. SWBAT make connections between and across lessons (ex. Dr. Dan Levy coming in, Rosie Revere Engineer, and our overarching project of creating the boat).
        4. SWBAT write independently and collaboratively in a lab report style and informal exit-slip style.
        5. SWBAT reflect through brief exit slips on independent behavior and group behavior.

Material knowledge/science vocabulary acquisition

        1. SWBAT identifying the various purposes of different recycled materials.
        2. Students will have a variety of adjectives to describe the quality of a material.

 

Group work

      1. SWBAT compromise in a group when needed.
      2. SWBAT identify what supportive group work looks like.

*SWBAT = Students will be able to