to
integrate our educational endeavors so
meaningfully with real-life and hands-on correlations,
We dedicate this page to
them.
"Beyond the
Chalkboard"
News:
TRANSPORTATION
TECHNOLOGIES
is a Massachusetts Frameworks curriculum requisite for which our sixth grade
math and science
teacher keenly involved his students and illustrated through their own
experimentation, how
transportation concepts could apply to real life design considerations.
Linking the MA requisite concepts within the technology of transportation, the
students were
asked to build their own aerodynamic automobile and then test them against the
physical science
principles of lift, drag, friction, thrust and gravity. Pictures here are
witness to the creative process
the students enjoyed while reasoning within a given set of parameters, why a
plastic bottles,
duct tape and bigger wheels were successful… or not such successful choices for
efficient
transportation devices. Here is what some of them said,
"CD's weren't good for wheels because they were not strong."
"The flatter the front, the slower the car went."
"It was important to balance out the weight."
"Wood was really useful because it's very rigid."
Over the course of two weeks, the kids built, tested, redesigned and retested
their speed vehicles
only to move on to their next unit of science with their engines racing!
TRANSPORTATION
TECHNOLOGIES 