Next Generation Science Standards: Grades 3-5 Engineering Design
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost
2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variable are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved
Science and Engineering Practices:
1. Ask questions and solve problems
2. Use models
3. Design prototypes
4. Investigate
5. Analyze and interpret data
6. Use computational thinking
7. Engage in argument from evidence
8. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information
Students are using Lego WeDo kits to build robots that serve different purposes. Students work with a partner to build and program their robots as well as document their learning with pictures, videos, and typing. Students are creating the following projects:
1. Glowing Snail
2. Cooling Fan
3. Moving Satellite
4. Spy Robot
5a. Milo the Science Rover
5b. Milo's Motion Sensor
5c. Milo's Tilt Sensor
5d. Milo Collaborating
Students who demonstrate understanding can:
1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or a want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost
2. Generate and compare multiple solutions to a problem based on how well each is likely to meet the criteria and constraints of the problem
3. Plan and carry out fair tests in which variable are controlled and failure points are considered to identify aspects of a model or prototype that can be improved
Science and Engineering Practices:
1. Ask questions and solve problems
2. Use models
3. Design prototypes
4. Investigate
5. Analyze and interpret data
6. Use computational thinking
7. Engage in argument from evidence
8. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information
Students are using Lego WeDo kits to build robots that serve different purposes. Students work with a partner to build and program their robots as well as document their learning with pictures, videos, and typing. Students are creating the following projects:
1. Glowing Snail
2. Cooling Fan
3. Moving Satellite
4. Spy Robot
5a. Milo the Science Rover
5b. Milo's Motion Sensor
5c. Milo's Tilt Sensor
5d. Milo Collaborating