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Technology Education - Westfall
Grade 6
1. Room rules
Expectations
2. Read “Remembering an Eye Injury”
Complete writing prompt
3. Intro one point perspective
4-5. Squares, rectangles
6. House assignment
7-8. Work on house assignment
9. Finish house assignment
10. Analyze Egg Package Mission - develop a plan
11. Prototyping - Day One
12. Prototyping - Day Two
13. Develop final package
14. Last day to finish package
15. Testing - Day One
drop packages from the ceiling to the floor
16. Testing - Day Two
drop packages from the library window onto the concrete outside
Egg Package closure
17. Watch “Timber” video
Complete “Timber” notesheet
18. Overview of Dragster unit
Watch “Fast Cars”
Complete video notesheet
19. Discuss cars, resistance, and aerodynamics
Complete thumbnail/rough sketch sheet
20. Notes on scroll saw
Intro 2 view drawing - start with side view
21. Scroll saw test
Finish 2 view drawing
22. Demo cutting out drawing and tracing on foam block
Go over clean up procedures - have students write names on cards
Begin cutting prototypes
23. Demo wind tunnel and wind tunnel worksheet
Demo sandpaper
If they’ve cut and sanded the foam block, they can use the wind tunnel
Continue cutting prototype
24. Go over wood block and tracing
make sure they use pencil, put the top view on the slanted side, and match the straw hole outline with the actual straw hole.
If they have drawing and wind tunnel reading, then they get a wood block
25. Begin drilling
Continue tracing wood block
Begin cutting
26. Filing and sanding
27-26. Painting
Finish drilling
Continue cutting
28. Demo installing wheels/axles
Demo roll ramp/discuss roll ramp worksheet
Install wheels/axles and test on roll ramp
29. Race
30. Vote - best decorated, best design, most creative, smoothest, best effort
Finish racing.
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