Technology Challenge.

TECHNOLOGY UNIT PLANNER

Project Title: Kite Lift   Group Members: James,Jakob and Jamie

Group Roles:   Designer: Jakob Prototype Builder: James Google Docs Guru: Jamie

DESCRIPTION OF CONTEXT:  Investigating ways of transferring energy to cause movement in vehicles
BRIEF: Scenario A group were stranded in a building during a flood. Their building was beginning to break up and they urgently needed to be able to reach the nearest building about 20m away, which was more secure. Although the water was deep and fast between the buildings they would be able to be pulled one at a time across to the safe building with a strong rope (and the rope pulled back by a cord for the next person). People in the other building had plenty of strong rope but there was no way to get it across. It had stopped raining and a moderate wind was blowing towards the safe building. On looking through their building all they could find was a considerable quantity of thin but strong cord, some thin bamboo sticks, paper, plastic sheet and sticky tape. Task To make a kite which will be able to be flown over a spot 20m away and either land on it, drop a string as near to the spot as possible, or fly so low as to be within reach or dangle a string within reach (e.g. 2m altitude) of someone standing on the spot.       Assessment – SOLO Rubric  (see below)
Prior Knowledge needed: How are forces used in the real world to create this type of movement? (provide examples and/or drawings from what you already know) Lift to keep the kite in the air. Drag to slow it down. Thrust to make the kite go forward. Gravity to make the kite go down
Resources required: Date completed 8/9/2015 1.String (35 meters). 2.Supermarket bag. 3.4 Ice cream sticks/bamboo sticks 4.Some sticky tape	KEY FOCUS:      Follow the Technological Process Ask What is the goal? Why must we create this technology? Imagine What will the technology look like? What kind of research should we do? Plan How can we achieve the goal? Design your prototype Create Build a prototype(first design) and observe if problems occur. Improve Generate  solutions/fixes to the original prototype Evaluate how successful your design was.

Timetable for completion of tasks:

Date	Task	√ if deadline met
Friday 4 September	Choose your group and your challenge.  Add group names to google doc.	done
Tuesday 8 September	On google doc add brief and details in Prior Knowledge section. Resources are organised, add list to google doc.	Done
Wednesday 9 September	Plan is drawn, labelled and photo of it added to this doc.	Done
Tuesday 15 September	First prototype made and trialed.  Notes made on this doc.
Wednesday 16 September	Improvements made and tested. Notes made on this doc.  Photo of design added to this doc. SOLO Rubric completed.

Photo of the drawing of your design, include labels describing parts of your model and materials used.  Date Completed 9/9/2015
Add a photo of your design:  Date completed 10.9.2015
First Trial Notes did not fly enough because not enough wind	Refinements Needed Need more wind/higher building	Date completed 10.9.2015
Second Trial Notes just did 1 and final trail	Refinements Needed	Date Completed
Final Trial Notes still not enough wind	How successful was our design? quite well when the wind picked up	Date Completed 16/9/2015
How well did the members of our team work? You have $300 to award to the members of your team according to: the effort they put in to making your team work well the effort they put in to helping your challenge to be successful. Allocate the $300 amongst your team according to this criteria. Name $$ earned Reason 1.JamesM 125 did most of the work 2.James W 125 did most of the work 3.Jakob m 50 only did some work

Apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge.

SOLO Functional Rubric

Apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge. Effective Strategies to use: 1. Ask What is the goal? Why must we create this technology? 2. Imagine What will the technology look like? What kind of research should we do? 3. Plan How can we achieve the goal? Design your prototype 4. Create Build a prototype(first design) and observe if problems occur. 5. Improve Generate solutions/fixes to the original prototype Evaluate how successful your design was.	I need help to apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge.	I can apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge if I am prompted or directed.	I use several strategies to apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge but I am not sure when and or why to use them. (trial and error – aware of strategies but not sure why or when to use them so makes mistakes)	I use several strategies to apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge and I know when and why to use them. (strategic or purposeful use of strategies – knows why and when )	I use several strategies to apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge and I know when and why to use them. I act as a role model for others to help them apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge I seek feedback on how to improve how I can apply the technological design process to solve our technology challenge.
Evaluation

Term 3s Highlights

The thing that I enjoyed the most was technology challenge because we got to create models that could solve a problem we were given. My favorite one was Kite Lift because it was quite challenging but also a lot of fun making our model.

 

Maths

WALT.  Iam Learning  to militiply thousands

Tech challenge

Maths

Tech

My reading goal for term 3 2015

Know what different words mean

My maths goals for term 3 2015

Writing Goals Term 3 2015

WALT use interesting and detailed ideas in our writing

Forces

WALT: identify and explain where forces happen at our school

This is Lachlan showing Gravity

This is James using Muscular Force

Explanation about flight

WALT to explain how or why something occurs.

How do wings work ?


Birds have wings so they can fly. Wings have special shapes.


The wings are curved and streamlined.The air flow moves under and over wings . The two flows of air move differently.

The different wind flow helps lift the wings. The
higher air pressure below the wings pushes them up.
The air, angle of the wing and air pressure differences around the wings create lift.

Wings on a plane act like a huge scoop. As they scoop or pull air down the plane can rise. The air pressure is lowers above the wings.

Wings help objects fly because they are curved and streamlined. They use air pressure changes to move up and down .

By James


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James

Walt groupings with in

 

Frst world war mascots

WALT find and understand the main idea of the text. 

I had to draw the mascots of the different army groups. I had to read the article to find what the mascots were and who they helped.

Term 2 Goals

Self portrait

WALT:paint a self portrait  in  the style of  Henri  Matisse .

writing

 WALT to use alliteration in our writing

1 THE Reen kiwi kept  knowing wree the key was for the kauri  kingdom

2 the jar of jam joined the jelly jets injoy the jump jungle

Term 1 Goals