Science

PLTW (physical science)

Each PLTW Launch module engages students in cross-disciplinary activities that spark a lifelong love of learning and build knowledge and skills in areas including computer science, engineering, and biomedical science. In addition, each module empowers students to develop essential skills such as problem solving, critical and creative thinking, communication, collaboration, and perseverance.

• FLIGHT: In this module, students learn about the forces involved in flight as well as Newton’s Laws of Motion. They design, build, and test an experimental model glider to find out how air and other forces affect its flight. Students apply the design process to the problem of delivering aid to an area where supplies must be airlifted in and dropped to the ground from an aircraft.
• FORCES: During this unit, students will be working with a team to find a solution on how to get a tiger out of a moat. These activities promote learning that engineers design solutions that transfer to other solutions. First, they will sketch an idea. Then through a series of lessons learning about simple machines, experimentation and trial and error, solutions will be explored. As an end result, students will design a safe way to get the tiger out of the moat using forces and motion.

EARTH SCIENCE

ROCKS AND MINERALS: The Rocky Roads unit include learning about Pangaea’s Theory and how plate tectonics cause the continents to move, earthquakes to happen, and volcanoes to erupt. They will also learn about the layers of the Earth and about the different types of rocks.