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August 25 - 29
Monday - Welcome, CHAMPS and CCT Rules Tuesday - Robot VS Man video clip analysis, Web Site Navigation, Supplies, Lab Fee Wednesday - See, Run, Do Activity on CHAMPS and CCT Rules; students will practice lining up and walking the hallways Thursday - Math Numbers Game, Photo Challenge Team Building Activities Friday - Who is Mr. Sinister and Dr. Malicious? Pathway to PLTW, High School Credit, Robot Challenge Activity, "Solutionist Video Clip" HW - students are to find a way to connect their image in the Photo Challenge activity with the other members of their team to complete the picture. |
September 01-05
Monday - Labor Day Tuesday - Brainstorming Ideas - Students will receive a "survival" scenario in which they must choose ONLY 12 items to take with them before a catastrophic event takes place. The next part of the assignment will be announced during class and each team will need to defend and justify their selection. Wednesday - Continue Brainstorming and using Design Matrix to help make decisions. HW - Identify strength and weaknesses of each team member Period 2 - Assembly Thursday - Period 1 - help set up equipment and sort Lego Boxes; Period 2 Complete Wednesday Lesson. Discuss about Competitions. Friday - Identify team members strengths and weaknesses. Each team will receive a Catastrophic Event scenario card and must complete the challenge within the allotted time defending and justifying their choices. |
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September 08-12
Monday - Discuss about competitions and events, procedures, rules, and other important information. Tuesday - The #1 most usable item in the world, the stick. Planning Day, be prepared for evaluation on Wednesday. Grades will be based on first group to give up on Challenge. Wednesday - Teams will be evaluated on how well they complete the "stick" challenge. Teams will demonstrate their abilities to work as a group. Thursday - Team Building Activity, create life size class (Team) photo Friday - "continue from Tuesday"; color and frame class team photo for OPEN HOUSE. |
September 15-19
Monday - Use the design Brief and Decision Matrix to create a plan to solve the pyramid cup challenge Tuesday - Use your team of engineers to successfully complete the pyramid cup challenge. Teams will construct a rubber band grip tool using one rubber band and 6 strings tied to the rubber band. Teams must complete all three challenges in the allotted time. Write a summary on which part your team struggled on and how did you overcome the challenge. Wednesday - Create R&E hallway badges and post flags around the campus to prepare for the cell phone map challenge. OPEN HOUSE TONIGHT! Thursday - Cell Phone Flag capture Mission. Students will learn the value of planning and the Engineering Design Process. Friday - Writing Day in Cornell notes about what you have learned in Robotics & Engineering. Include information about team work, communication, planning, finding solutions, not giving up, the design brief, writing in complete sentences, and decision matrix. Be sure to include examples. Create up to four questions that you would like to know more about in order to be successful in Robotics & Engineering. Summarize what you have written. Highlight vocabulary words in your writing that you have learned that may be new to you from this class. |
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September 22-26
Monday - Engineer your first straw plane! The agents will watch a video of Dr. Malicious in a high speed car chase stealing the training supplies and a NEUTRON BOMB. Students will run trial tests and measure distance and time flown. Students will then graph results. Tuesday - Students are to "innovate" the base model design and build a longer flying straw plane to test. Students will test their model and write a summary of the modifications and test results OPEN HOUSE Wednesday -students will complete trial runs of their straw plane prototypes testing for distance and time flown (speed). Students will then graph the results. Students will have to find a way to modify their design yet again to increase either distance or speed. Thursday - Students will collect data for their last modification in distance and speed, then graph the results. Students will need to write a summary explaining the failures and success of their engineering and what they did to overcome defects and improve from the original design. Training supplies will then be ready for transport from the newly innovated planes. Friday - Fortbend County Fair Day |
September 29-October 03
Monday - Agents will have to train at building things small and lightweight using the supplies flown in from their straw planes. In small teams of 4, agents will be tasked with building a containment unit that will be able to protect an "in-coded chip". The box must survive stress tests and the chip cannot crack in order for success to occur. Agents will begin the design process and create several blueprints. Students will design a matrix to help select the top 2-3 designs. Tuesday - "continue from Wednesday"....agents will test their containment unit by building the boxes and recording data from weight and area of the box. Agents will then run the stress tests and record data on whether the chip survived the stress tests. Wednesday - "continue with engineering project" Thursday and Friday - Agents will continue to modify the containment box until a final prototype is ready for shipment. |
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October 06-October 10
Monday - Students receive word that they must move supplies via boat to a new destination in order to build their prototype cars. Students watch an animoto video showing the challenge of creating a Boat that will hold the most weight before sinking. Tuesday - students finished their design brief and decision matrix on their boat designs Wednesday to Friday - students worked on building their boats and recorded weight and volume |
October 13-October 17
Monday - Students learned how to calculate density and how volume and weight had a direct impact on how much weight their boats could hold Tuesday - Students conducted the final test runs for their Boat challenge and calculated Density along with weight and volume. Students received grades for the Boat Challenge. Wednesday - Students created a design brief and started a decision matrix for both a rubber band car and a balloon car Thursday - Students finished the decision matrix for the cars and grade was taken for the first six sketches. Friday - Students were introduced to Mars Rover Vocabulary words to prepare themselves for the Mars Rover Competition in January. Students had to create a crossword puzzle and include a key in addition to definitions. Grade was taken for the decision matrix on the last 6 sketches. |
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October 20-October 24
Monday - Students encountered an issue with the balloon cars and rubber band cars in that they need to make it across a river to the race track and test facility. Students discuss and plan a bridge design to accomplish the new challenge Tuesday - Students are shown how to register for the TAMU Spark conference and are asked to start registering this week. Students begin sketching their bridges Wednesday - Students will read and research about 6 different types of bridges and take Cornell notes on the bridges. Students will ask 3 questions and provide answers to their questions in the summary. Students will sketch samples of each of the 6 bridges on the back of the notes and be ready to submit on Friday. Thursday - Students will finish design sketches of their bridges and account for every piece of material being used. Students will construct bridge to hold 10 Ibs and conduct stress tests that last 60 seconds. Failure will result in redesign or re-engineering of the bridge and discussions of what went wrong and how to solve the new problems discovered. Friday - "continue with Thursday bridge building activity" |
October 27-October 31
Monday - Students will finish decorating bridges and conduct stress tests to determine if their bridges can hold 10 pounds for 60 seconds. Tuesday - Students will test the bridges, receive scores on Aesthetics of their bridges and answer conclusion questions in their group about what they learned or discovered during the engineering process. Wednesday - Students will begin building their balloon and rubber band cars Thursday - Students will finish building cars Friday - Students will learn how to graph results and then conduct three trial runs for their cars. Students will collect data for the first car and then record the data and create a graph for the results to share. |
