Introduction 

Proficiency scales:

1. Engineering Design Cycle 

2. Professional Skills/Employability

3. Research

4. Technical sketching 

NGSS Standards:

• NGSS HS-ETS1-1, NGSS HS-ETS1-2, NGSS HS-ETS1-3, NGSS HS-ETS1-4

• PCRN Employability Skills Framework 

Class Introduction

Week 1 (08/21-08/25)

Thursday 08/24:

• Classroom intro interactive presentation (to slide 18)

• Explore the Class Websites

  • Classroom codes:  

    • 4th-period class code: mdoi2yj

    • 5th-period class code: uq3li66

• Daily log Practice (08/24) (Activity on Google Classroom) due today 

• STEM entry Survey (On Google Classroom) due today 

Extra

• Get to know each other using Wakelet (activity) due in class Friday 08/25

Friday 08/25

• (Finish Classroom intro interactive presentation)

• STEM Code of Conduct - Handout

• Capstone Project Outline - Handout

• Daily log Practice (08/25) (Activity on Google Classroom) due today 

HW

• For Monday,  08/28: Bring in a simple item (inexpensive) that you can take apart (bring more than one if possible).

  • SIMPLE - Not too complex, don’t bring in a radio, or a cellphone (yet).

  • EASY TO OPEN - Make sure that the item can be broken down using simple tools that are available to you.

  • BRING IN THE TOOLS NEEDED TO DISASSEMBLE IT!

  • Bring a baggy to store the parts in

• For Monday 08/28:  Bring in a BOUNDED (no spring bounded, no rings) Journal either a quadrille-ruled (graph paper) notebook or one with blank pages.  The size is up to you

Week 2 (08/28-09/01)

Day 1:

• Review additional objects to disassemble/research & tools

• Engineering Design Notebook interactive presentation (from slide 14)

  • Notebook Set up slide 23 in-class

• Digital Portfolio website, “STEM Senior Engineering” page set-up On Google Classroom due tomorrow 

Day 2 (Block)

• • Intro  to Engineering

    • (Start) What do engineers do? interactive presentation (to 18)

      • Conceptual sketches practice (Skills Practice) Exploded View drawings (identify parts,  group activity) on paper and Google Classroom due today

      • Sketch a bicycle's mechanism on paper and Google Classroom due today

  • Start**CHALLENGE ***Break it Apart! Research and Create a Conceptual Sketch, Exploded view. (Skills practice)  Due  09/05

Day 3 (Rally)

• Continue *CHALLENGE ***Break it Apart! Research and Create a Conceptual Sketch, Exploded view. (Skills practice)  Due 09/05

Day 4

• Syllabus (handout) & Computer lab Makerspace safety Rules (handout)​ also on Google Classroom due Friday 09/08

• Draw an Incandescent light bulb, individual Activity on paper due today

• Continue *CHALLENGE ***Break it Apart! Research and Create a Conceptual Sketch, Exploded view. (Skills practice)  Due 09/05

• Think about mentors, Teaming, and brainstorming capstone ideas! (ongoing)

• Weekly log practice on Google Classroom

Extra:

• • • Paper Bridge Activity Handout

    • The Tower - 10-minute building challenge/Reflections on Google classroom

    • Review Conceptual sketches (Bulb activity)

    • Digital Portfolio Quizziz.com practice