WMA in the Classroom Trimesters 2 and 3
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WMA in the Classroom Adventures with STEM Projects
in the Second and Third Trimesters
Grade One...Grade One...
Whirligigs and Build Whirligigs and Build your own Dinosauryour own Dinosaur
Build a Whirligig
Objective:
Students were asked to build their own whirligigs, which are
objects that spin or whirl.
Engineering Challenge:
Grade one students were given the task to work with one or two
partners to design and build a whirligig.
How they did it:
Students brainstormed ideas and drew preliminary sketches of
their thoughts and ideas in their journals. With the help of Mr.
Borton, they chose the design, the number of blades they want-
ed and set to making the whirligig. The designs were tested on
height and time suspended in the air.
Build Your Own Dinosaur
Objective:
Students were asked to build LEGO® dinosaurs, using specific
instructions.
Engineering Challenge:
Grade one students were given a set of LEGOS® and a set of
three cards containing physical characteristics. They were asked
to construct their designs based on the characteristic cards they
were given.
How they did it:
Students followed the specifications on the cards and were able
to build their dinosaurs accordingly.
Grade Two...Grade Two... Make a Wind RacerMake a Wind Racer LEGO We Do MonkeysLEGO We Do Monkeys
Make a wind racer!
Engineering Challenge:
Students worked with their partners to design and build a bal-
loon-powered racer with the materials provided. However, the
race car plans did not come with instructions. The students
worked in teams to design their cars. Then they assembled them
and raced to find out who’s was the fastest in the grade.
Intro to WeDo Drumming Monkey
Students were introduced to the LEGO® WeDo kits, which attach
working motors and sensors to the laptops and allow students to
create simple to complex programs for their bots. In their intro-
duction, they made a working model with a motor that turned a
fan forward and backward.
Engineering Challenge:
Students followed a WeDo-structured build to build a monkey
that drummed on a cup in different rhythmic patterns. They used
the motor, gear assembly, cam shaft and added motion sensors.
Grade Three...Grade Three... Make an LED Greeting Make an LED Greeting Card and Robot CritterCard and Robot Critter
Electricity—Simple Circuits
Make an LED Greeting Card
Students designed a greeting card and made it light up with cir-
cuit writer pens. They laid out a simple circuit to illuminate their
cards. They also drew their circuits using the conductive ink and
were able to run the LED lights in parallel to add light to their
greeting card designs.
Robot Critter
Students built a LEGO® WeDo creature, either an alligator, bird or
lion. After completing this build and programming their creatures
to demonstrate movement, students picked a random habitat for
these creatures in which to live and made adaptations for the
creatures to thrive. Adaptions were made to both the LEGO®
creature and the computer program.
Grade Four…Grade Four… Build an Adaptive Build an Adaptive Kicker and Rube Kicker and Rube Goldberg ApparatusGoldberg Apparatus
Build a Adaptive Kicker
Human Body Robot Build
Engineering Challenge:
Students worked in teams to build a LEGO® kicker to attach to a
wheelchair which would enable a person with a disability to play
soccer. Students used the LEGO® WeDo kits to build a kicker that
was either programmed to start on a “go” command or was set
up with a motion sensor. The kickers were tested for both
distance and accuracy.
Simple Machines
Robotics/Rube Goldberg Apparatus
Engineering Challenge:
Students worked in groups to design, build and implement a
Rube Goldberg apparatus that incorporated three simple ma-
chines using found objects, Kinects and the LEGO® WeDo ro-
botics kits. Students worked in groups of five with specific roles
assigned to them to accomplish these tasks.
Named after cartoonist and inventor Rube Goldberg, the appa-
ratus is overly elaborate and performs a rudimentary task via a
chain reaction.
Grade Five...Grade Five... Build a LEGO® Bot Build a LEGO® Bot and a Create Water and a Create Water Filtration SystemFiltration System
LEGO® Robotics Build
Students were introduced to the LEGO® NXT kits. They worked in
teams of three to build the education bot. After building the
basic bot and learning how to program it to move, they added
both light and audio sensors to accomplish basic robot challeng-
es.
Environmental Engineering:
Water Filtration Challenge
Students were grouped in teams of three to design an effective
water filtration system using commonly found household items.
They were given various materials to test before designing the
filter. After they designed and built the filter, they were provided
with a bottle of mystery water to filtrate. They were judged on
economics of their designs, speed of filtration and clarity in the
water.
Grade Six...Grade Six... Build a Toothpick Build a Toothpick Bridge and Launch Bridge and Launch Bottle RocketsBottle Rockets
Bridge Building
Engineering Challenge:
Students worked in teams to design and build a bridge from
toothpicks, following protocol for specific bridge type and an
assigned budget. Each student on the team played a different
role in the build and was responsible for his or her area of exper-
tise. Bridges were judged on the amount they cost and the
amount of weight that was suspended from them until they
broke.
Bottle Rockets
Engineering Challenge:
Students worked individually to research, design and build a
bottle rocket powered by air pressure and water, producing maxi-
mum flight height conditions. The rockets were constructed from
two-liter plastic bottles and were judged on the altitude they
achieve.
Grade Seven...Grade Seven... Build Hand Pollinators Build Hand Pollinators and a Better Boneand a Better Bone
Cell Structure and Function
Build a Hand Pollinators: EIE
Engineering Challenge:
Students built the best hand pollinator to help save several differ-
ent shaped plants. Students worked in teams of three to test
commonly found materials to see which collect and deposit pol-
len the most effectively. Then, they designed and tested their
pollinators to work with four extremely different shaped flowers
and plants.
Build a Better Bone
Engineering Challenge:
Students worked in teams to build and design the strongest
bone. Using a very limited amount of card stock and tape, stu-
dents designed a bone by rolling and folding the paper. The
bones were tested by adding weight until they broke.
Grade Eight...Grade Eight... Build a VoiceBuild a Voice--Controlled Catapult and Controlled Catapult and a Pie Plate Speakera Pie Plate Speaker
Newton’s Laws of Motion
LEGO® Voice Controlled Catapult
Engineering Challenge:
Students built a LEGO® counterweight catapult and adjusted the
design for the furthest toss. The catapults were controlled using
the audio sensor and were voice controlled to launch.
Build a speaker with a pie plate.
Students built a working speaker with a coil of copper wire, a
magnet and pie plate. The students learned how to make a voice
coil and attached it to an amplifier. Students then played their
own music selections and added different shaped aluminum
plates to the coil to see which made the best quality sound.