Engineering Toolbox

Lesson 1 - Measurement & Empowered Learner
2-3 Days

Teacher Resources

Teacher Slides - Using a Tape Measure and Dog House Construction

Updated slides: Dog house and measurement presentation slides 

5E lesson plan: Dog house measurement 5E plan 

• Standard vs Metric  (Optional)

• Fractions

• Decimals

Objectives

• Understand and apply measurement

• Be an Empowered learning and create a dog house with the exact measurement required with little assistance from the instructor.

Lesson Starter

• Use the measurement practice to pre-assess as Hook or Mr. Bean (What have you measured at home?)

• Importance of measuring with precision and documenting with accuracy 1999 loss of Mars orbiter due to US customary/metric conversion error 

Material Needed

• • Cardboard, Manila folders, or cereal boxes, Tape, Scissors

  • Big Inch - Quick Assessment and Reference Sheet

Student Activities & Resources

• Big Inch

• Practice with the Quizlet for anyone unsure - Quizlet Measurement

• Tech Ed LLC - NEW - Resources for understanding measurement

Movement

• Students will be working in groups and out of their seat when working on the shed.  

Teacher Notes:

When you feel comfortable that the student knows measurement, you can assign them to a team.  We are really not focused on the house design, just the teamwork and measurement.   Utilize some personalized learning, you may be working with the students who need more work on measurement the entire time, if they do not know measurement, do not assign them to a team.

Assessment Options    

• Assessment - Measurement and Empowered Learner

• "The Ruler Game" - self paced ruler practice review/assessment 

• Measurement around the room 

• Skilled Professional - Students will be assessed on the Skills part of the CTE Rubric for Measurement

• Empowered Learner - Students will be assessed on the Empowered Learner section of the Rubric

Lesson 2 - Collaboration and Project management

2-3 Days 

Teacher Resources

Utilize as a Teacher Presentation 

Objectives

• Solve, an open-ended design with limited material

• Introduction to a simple design process

• Illustrate the design using thumbnail sketches.

Materials Needed

• Materials: (Teacher's Choice) Ideas: Construction paper, pipe cleaners, toothpicks, cardboard tubes, paper clips, index cards, marshmallows, aluminum foil, tape, Legos and markers?

• Print out Thumbnail Sketches

Simple Problem-Solving Ideas

Tooth Brush holder, Phone Holder, Hairbrush Hair Remover, Device to remove Ring from a Garbage Disposal, TV Remote holder for a bed, Glasses holder for your Bookbag, Baseball or Knit Hat holder, Pill Box Container, Napkin Holder, Egg Protector, Back Scratcher, Silverware door organizer, jewelry holder/organizer, Oven Mitt, Keyboard Cleaner, etc.

Student Activities & Resources

• Day 1 - Selection of a problem, blind selection of their sandwich bag with objects, design of object.

• Day 2 - Construction of object

Movement

• Students will be working with a classmate on the construction of a device

Teacher Notes: The concept is to introduce a simple Design Process. 

IMPORTANT: Step 1 Students must pick something very simple they want to build, they can pick from the list or come up with something on their own.

Next - YOU make DIFFERENT bags with different objects in them, they have no idea what is in each back.  Their task, build their object to the best of their ability with the materials given.

 Students are given a paper bag that contains three simple building materials and an open-ended design prompt, that they picked (e.g. I need to bring my lunch to school).  Students work in groups to design a solution to their prompt using the limited materials given. They then present their design back to the group to deconstruct and explain their thinking.  

• Begin to discuss SHOP safety, have students wear goggles for this exercise, simple tools only scissors and tape.  SHOP Cleanup!!

Assessment Options

• Responsible Citizen, Innovative Designer

Basic Design Skills
3-5 Days

Teacher Resources
Teacher Slides - Engineering Design Skills 

• For some of the projects, students could work in teams of two.

Objectives

• Demonstrate everyone’s ability to free hand/sketch/boost confidence

• Gain an understanding of Basic Design Terminology

• Develop Isometric Drawing Skill and understand their use case/purpose

• Develop Scale Drawing Ability and understand their use case/purpose

Hand Sketching and Basic,  Basic Design Terminology, Views,  Dimension, &  Scale

Lesson Starter 

Drawing a Straight Line - Freehand / Mindset Video

Mindset Video - Stress in this class they need to believe they can do anything!!!

Material Needed

• Graph Paper / Iso paper

• Ruler

• Tape Measure

• Blank sheet of paper

Student Activities & Resources

Isometric drawing

• • Tutorial Video 1

  • Tutorial Video 2

Additional Teacher Resources (Recommend start second semester with this as a review)

• Entry Events

• Technical Drawings Organizer

• Top, Down, and Front View Practice

• Technical Drawing Challenge

• Extension: Intro to TinkerCAD

Final Summative Assessment - Students will draw a design to 1/3 scale on the final slide - Instructors can certainly provide more choice to students.

Movement

• With tape measures, students in two-person groups measure one item and sketch accurately, representing three dimensions. Considering scale. Students choose how to represent objects- ortho, iso.

• Iso Practice Choice Activity = 7 Spots to Locate to draw one of 7 Shapes (objects blown up and printed large/posted)

Teacher Notes: ** NUMBER 1 thing in this lesson is to demonstrate to students that they can LEARN and be better at things that they thought they were not.  IT IS CRITICAL you get this message out for success in this class. 

Assessment Options  

Assessment - Design and Engineering Design skills

• Innovative Designer - Demonstrate some free hand sketching and growth Mindset

• Skilled Professional - Able to understand and draw some isometric shapes

Alternatively: Give students a few unifix/snap cubes (around 6 each).  Challenge them to create a unique 3D model. Swap their model with another student, then create a complete multiview sketch of the object. Sketch must include top, front, right side, and isometric views. Students can also add dimensioning to the finished sketches. *Note, standard unifix cube sides are each 3/4 inch.

Creativity / Innovation / Communication 

2-3 Days

Teacher Resource

Teacher Slides - Metal Bucket Challenge

Objectives

• Describe the importance of creativity in the real-world setting by explaining the different types of thinking strategies.  

• Explain the evaluation process of application thinking and identify different red brick constructions. 

• Justify and evaluate the various red brick constructions by peer feedback.  

• Design an updated red brick construction project using peer feedback.

Lesson Starter

Us the “How you become less Creative as you Get older” Video as a Hook to discuss Creativity 

Materials

• It would be great to have a metal bucket

• Paper

• Pencil

Student Activities & Resources

• • Study possible characteristics of buckets

  • List applications for each characteristic

  • Give 60-second group pitch to entire class about UNIQUE ideas generated. If brick is available, model for class.

  • What is a Metal Bucket - Creativity Activity (one per group when they partner up on slide 5) 

Movement

• Dividing the students into 5 separate teams in slide 4

• Working in Teams with Red Brick Activity

• Elevator Pitch Presentation

Teacher Notes: Focus on getting students to realize material can be utilized in many ways, it will be an important concept in the class & when they brainstorm.  Celebrate students who can work on their own and as a responsible citizen, try to do something special for them. Choose their own seat / classroom treat / first pick in a teammate for the design process challenge int he next unit

Assessment Options  

Assessment - Creative Communicator / Empowered Learner

• Empowered Learner - Able to work through the Creativity Challenge Sheet Independently, formative assessment (Quantity vs. Quality)

• Creative Communicator - Group Work focus on Communication Skills in working with others (Could have a responsible Citizen assessment as well if classroom management is a goal)  & 60 Second Elevator Pitch (whole group participation) & Peer Feedback Form (own group and/or other groups) - “Most Creative Ideas” or “Most Unique Idea” 

• Additional criteria based on elevator pitch: allow students freedom to record/animate the presentation

• Potential FHS CBE - 1C, 2B, 2C, 3A, 3B, 4B, 5A

Standards of Workmanship

2-3 Days

Teacher Resources

Teacher Slides - Standards of Workmanship

Extension/sub plans as needed: Engineering career scavenger hunt 

Student Resources

Standards of Workmanship Contract

Materials

• Poster paper/poster board

• Markers/Colored Pencils

alternatively

• Electronic Poster links

Canva

piktochart

Adobe Spark

MOVEMENT

• Get Supplies

• Grouping Areas

• Collaboration

Activity

• Create a one-page poster (digital or hand drawn) to highlight one of the standards from the Contract.

• Allow students to help establish class expectations in the lab. Discuss specific procedures for:

  1.  Gathering materials/supplies

  2.  Gathering tools

  3.  Storage of work throughout a multi-day project

  4.  Use of various tools and safety tests to be performed before using them

  5.  Expectations of behavior while working

  6.  Daily clean up

Lesson Starter

Retro Video - Office Safety - Utilize and discuss what could go wrong in your classroom

Can't get any traction - Funny safety video 

• Discuss with your students of what could happen in your room.

• Phone distractions and mess left on floors and table should be emphasized.

** Many teachers do a one-day challenge such as this one and point out SAFETY Violations while doing the activity. 

** Some Teachers role play good and bad safety habits!!!

Important Teacher Notes: (Students need to take ownership of the safety in the classroom.)

• Include split-page “Do” and “Don’t Do” with pictures.

• Focus on some of the KEY standards you want in YOUR classroom

For this assignment, students will be creating a one-page poster to highlight rules from YOUR standards of workmanship contract

They should focus on some of the KEY standards you want in YOUR classroom.  Every classroom in our system is different, so you know what is important or not.

 Poster examples could include a split-page “Do” and “Don’t Do” with pictures of someone being safe versus unsafe, or a drawing of what could happen if someone were being unsafe. Students could also create digital posters. You have creative freedom with how you choose to showcase the standards in your classroom.