Weekly Lesson Checklist

SADC- Weekly Lesson Checklist

Week Lesson Student pages to be completed and in design log 1 Reading and Evaluating the Request for 1. RFP letter (p7&8) Proposals 2. Evaluating the RFP Log Sheet (p9-10) Meeting an Industry Volunteer 1. Questions for volunteers Designing a Team Name, Logo, and Slogan 1. Team names 2. Team logo 3. Team slogans Using Design Logs 1. Sample Design Log page (p21) 2. Blank design log pages (p23, 25, 27) Identifying the Customers 1. Identifying the Customer log sheet (p31) Seeing the Big Picture 1. Seeing the Big Picture log sheet (p35) 2. Objectives and Criteria log sheet (p37) 3. Chart paper to record student ideas (T) Creating a Design Checklist 1. Checklist log sheet (p41) 2 Consumer Research: Conducting Interviews 1. Customer Interview Sheet: Child (p155) 2. Customer Interview Sheet: Parent (p157) Looking at Gears in Bicycles 1. Questions About Bicycle Gears (p49-50) What We Know About Gears 1. Chart paper to record student ideas (T) Introducing the Gear Materials 1. Design log pages with drawings of gear trains tried (p25) 3 Consumer Research: Conducting a Survey 1. Customer Survey Sheet: Parent (p163) 2. Customer Survey Sheet: Child (p165) 3. Chart paper to record results (T) Recording Gear Rotations 1. Gear Rotation Recording Table (p65) 2. Gear Rotation Recording Table on transparency (T) Developing the Gear Ratio Formula 1. Gear Ratio Recording Table (p73) 2. Gear Ratio Recording Table on chart paper (T) Adding a Motor and Wheels 1. Blank Design Log pages (p25) Using the Gear Ratio Formula (begin) 1. Gear Ratio Practice Sheet (p81) 2. Gear Ratio Practice Sheet on chart paper (T) Measuring Performance: Speed and Wheel Rim Force 1. Performance Recording Table (p105) (begin) Using the Gear Ratio Formula 1. Gear Ratio Practice Sheet (p81) 4 Measuring Performance: Speed and Wheel Rim Force 1. Performance Recording Table (p105) Compound gear Trains 1. Blank design log pages (p25, 27) Measuring Performance: Compound Gear Trains 1. Blank design log pages (p25, 27) 2. Performance Recording Table (p105) Multiplying Fractions to Calculate Gear Ratios 1. Multiplying Fractions to Calculate Gear Ratios Sheet (p123) 2. Chart paper to demonstrate solution (T) Exploring Body Materials 1. Materials Testing Table (p147) 5 Measuring the Rim Forces of Individual Gears 1. Measuring the Rim Force of Gears Recording Table (p131) Torque and Lever Arms 1. Torque and Calculation Table (p139) 2. Copy part of table on chart paper(T) Consumer research: What We’ve Learned About the 1. Sample Data Analysis Table (p173) consumers 2. What Have We Learned about the Customer’s? Sheet (p175) 1 What We’ve Learned About Gears Chart paper to record student ideas (T) Integrating and applying What We Know  Design Logs  Class lists  Research findings Writing a Design Brief (begin)  Student notes  Class lists  Research findings  Copy of RFP Drawing Body Designs (begin) • Teacher displays 3-D and top, front, and side view drawings • Teacher demonstrates how to make drawings • Students make drawings for their proposed vehicles • Students share drawings with class 6 Drawing Body Designs Writing a Design Brief  For each design team, any notes they recorded in their Design Logs during the Integrating and Applying What We Know activity  For each design team, research findings from the Consumer Research: What We’ve Learned About the Consumers activity, the class charts from the What We’ve Learned About Gears activity, and a copy of the RFP Designing a Gear Train for the Prototype • Teams meet in their design groups and discuss the gear ratio they think will best meet their written design description • Teams design a specific arrangement of gears that will produce the gear ratio they want • Make a drawing of the gear train • Present drawings to the class Building a Prototype  The gear train design drawings students made in the Designing a Gear Train for the Prototype activity or the Redesigning the Prototype activity Performance Testing the Prototype  Design tests to measure the performance of their vehicle  Carry out the tests, collecting data  Write a test report of their test procedure, data, and preliminary results Interpreting Performance Test Data  For each design team, the data it collected in the Performance Testing the Prototype activity 7 Redesigning the Prototype  Make a new toy design based on the results of their testing data  Draw their new gear train design Making a Body Mock-up Constructing the Body (begin)  Teams construct bodies to attach to chassis

2 Planning for the Proposal and the Presentation  review the letter from MTI for requirements for the presentation and the written proposal  prepare a plan for meeting the requirements in the RFP  develop list of tasks Preparing the Written Proposal  Look over the classroom list (generated in Planning for the Proposal and the Presentation) of tasks needed to complete the written proposal. Pull from that list the main ideas, which could include the following: • introduction of the team  description of what the team designed  description of how the team addressed the challenge  summary of the team’s experience during the design process  summary of any market research and product testing  conclusion with persuasive arguments supporting the design team’s work 8 Constructing the Body  Teams construct bodies to attach to chassis Preparing the Oral Presentation  see Preparing for Written Proposal  Presentation Roles Worksheet (p245)  Individual Presentation Skills Evaluation Sheet (p247) Assembling, Testing, and Adjusting the Final Design  mount their constructed body on the toy chassis  test the completed toy to see how it meets the performance specifications The Final Presentation  outlines of their speeches for oral presentations  diagrams of the toy  support materials- data charts from test runs of prototype, charts based on findings from consumer research, final toy prototype  written proposal  video preparation  design Logs (optional)  overheads (optional)  slides (optional)