First/Third 9 weeks 

The first/third 9 weeks of STEM we will cover the following topics:

Everfi STEM Career Exploration

Engineering Design Process

Tinkercad Design Skills

Isometric & Orthographic Sketching

3D Printing Projects:

• Personalized Keychains

• 3D Puzzle Cube

Online Block Coding

• Code.org

• Hour of Code

• Microsoft MakeCode

• Tynker

Below are links to the standards used in 6th grade STEM:

STEM Career Exploration

• Endeavor STEM Career Standards Alignment

Engineering Design Process

• MS-ETS: 1-1,1-2,1-3,1-4

Tinkercad Design Skills, Isometric Sketching & Orthographic Views, 3D Printing Projects

Next Generation Science Standards

• 1. Empowered Learner

  • 1.d. Students understand the fundamental concepts of technology operations, demonstrate the ability to choose, use and troubleshoot current technologies and are able to transfer their knowledge to explore emerging technologies.

• 4. Innovative Designer

  • 4.a. Students know and use a deliberate design process for generating ideas, testing theories, creating innovative artifacts or solving authentic problems.

  • 4.b. Students select and use digital tools to plan and manage a design process that considers design constraints and calculated risks.

  • 4.c. Students develop, test and refine prototypes as part of a cyclical design process. 

  • 4.d. Students exhibit a tolerance for ambiguity, perseverance and the capacity to work with open-ended problems.

• 5. Computational Thinker

  • 5.a. Students formulate problem definitions suited for technology-assisted methods such as data analysis, abstract models and algorithmic thinking in exploring and finding solutions.

  • 5.b. Students break problems into component parts, extract key information, and develop descriptive models to understand complex systems or facilitate problem-solving.

• 6. Creative Communicator

  • 6.a. Students choose the appropriate platforms and tools for meeting the desired objectives of their creation or communication.

  • 6.b. Students create original works or responsibly repurpose or remix digital resources into new creations.

Block Coding

• Tynker - CSTA: 1B-AP-10, 1B-AP-11, 1B-AP-12, 1B-AP-15, 2-AP-12, 2-AP-13, 2-AP-15, 2-AP-16, 2-AP-17

• Microsoft Makecode  - ISTE: 1.c, 1.d, 4.d, 5.c, 5.d, 7.c

• Code.org

Below are the learning targets for the first/third 9 weeks in 6th grade STEM:

Everfi STEM Career Exploration (Students choose 3 to work on)

Students will be able to:

• Designing the Ultimate Prototype

  • Solve a virtual engineering problem from a set of constraints

  • Explain the basic process for additive 3D printing

  • Identify the steps of the design process and explain how it is utilized by designers and engineers

  • Differentiate between synthetic materials and explain why one might be preferable to another

  • Identify STEM careers that utilize engineering-related skills and identify one or more that might be of interest.

• Home of the Future

  • Define the Internet of Things and describe its potential impact on day-to-day lives

  • Identify appropriate visual data formats (scatter plot, line graph, bar graph, etc.) for specific data sets 

  • Understand the steps necessary to create a secure password

  • Identify STEM careers that utilize data literacy-related skills and identify one or more that might be of interest.

• Building the Perfect Playlist

  • Explain how recommendation engines utilize different types of data to predict user preferences

  • Distinguish between content and collaborative filtering

  • Identify how data might be utilized for recommendation engines

  • Identify STEM careers that utilize data literacy-related skills and identify one or more that might be of interest

• Medical Machines

  • Explain the process by which a physician gathers and uses data to treat a patient

  • Understand how aspects of a physical exam contribute to accurate assessment of patient’s condition

  • Identify three types of imaging, how they work, and their purposes

  • Identify STEM careers in the medical field and how they may be of interest 

• Data Champions

  • Define dependent and independent variables

  • Using historical data, predict sales based on data

  • Observe patterns and associations in bivariate data to evaluate player performance

  • Determine the data to collect in order to analyze and draw conclusions on which players to recruit 

• Transportation Central

  • Understand STEM concepts through simulated experience of modern manufacturing, with a focus on transportation, distribution and logistics

  • Relate basic STEM concepts to distribution processes

  • Connect to the diverse opportunities and paths for careers in the manufacturing industry

  • Use STEM concepts to determine what careers in manufacturing might be of interest 

Engineering Design Process

Students will be able to:

• Define each step of the Engineering Design Process.

• Arrange the steps of the Engineering Design Process in correct order.

• Explain of how a real-world problem can be solved through engineering.

• Apply the Engineering Design Process to iteratively improve a design.

Tinkercad Design Skills

Students will be able to:

• Place shapes on the work plane.

• Use the viewcube to rotate to each view of a shape.

• Move shapes around the work plane.

• Rotate shapes.

• Copy and duplicate shapes.

• Change a shapes scale by sizing it up or down.

• Group two individual shapes into one combined shape.

• Hide shapes and make them reappear upon clicking the light bulb icon.

• Align shapes on the X,Y,Z planes.

• Remove material from another shape using the hole feature. 

Isometric & Orthographic Sketching

Students will be able to:

• Draw a coded plan from an object made of cubes.

• Use a coded plan to build an object made of cubes.

• Define and explain the meaning of isometric.

• Draw a shape on isometric triangle-dot paper.

• Explain the concept of orthographic projection and why it is useful in engineering.

• Draw the three principle orthographic views of an object.

3D Printing Projects

Students will be able to:

• Keychain Project

  • Use the hole, group, and align tools to create a personalized keychain.

•  Puzzle Cube Project

  • Design a 3D puzzle cube consisting of 27 puzzle cubes assembled in 5 interlocking pieces.

  • Create isometric sketches of 5, 3D,interlocking puzzle pieces.

  • Use the duplicate and align tools to create puzzle pieces in Tinkercad.

Block Coding

Students will be able to:

• Identify how computer science is used in a field of entertainment

• Communicate how to draw an image in Game Lab, accounting for shape position, color, and order

• Reason about locations on the Game Lab coordinate grid

• Sequence code correctly to overlay shapes.

• Use a coordinate system to place elements on the screen.

• Use and reason about drawing commands with multiple parameters

• Identify a variable as a way to label and reference a value in a program

• Use variables in a program to store a piece of information that is used multiple times

• Generate and use random numbers in a program

• Update a value stored in a variable

• Create and use a sprite

• Use dot notation to update a sprite's properties

• Place text on the screen using a coordinate plane.

• Use arguments to control how text is displayed on a screen.

• Use a structured process to plan and develop a program.

• Explain how the draw loop allows for the creation of animations in Game Lab

• Use the draw loop in combination with the randomNumber() command, shapes, and sprites to make simple animations

• Identify which sprite properties need to be changed, and in what way, to achieve a specific movement

• Use the counter pattern to increment or decrement sprite properties

• Use conditionals to react to changes in variables and sprite properties

• Move sprites in response to keyboard input

• Use conditionals to react to keyboard input

• Respond to a variety of types of user input.

• Use an if-else statement to control the flow of a program.

• Apply an iterator pattern to variables or properties in a loop

• Sequence commands to draw in the proper order

• Use conditionals to react to keyboard input or changes in variables / properties

Everfi

Tinkercad

Tynker

Hour of Code

Code.org