Protect an Egg Performance Task

This week students worked to design solutions to prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from a height of two meters.  Biomechanical engineers design solutions to protect people.  Biomechanical engineers who work on cars use crash test dummies to test protective designs.  We used eggs for our crash tests.






Students began by designing and sketching a model of their design.  Then they began building their protective device with partners.





After students built their models it was time for the eggs and the crash tests. Thanks to Mrs. Kelly (Andrew's Mom) for donating the eggs. 







Students would examine their egg and evaluate the success of their design.  Groups then redesigned and tested again.  Some groups added a second egg to their device to test if additional mass would change the effectiveness of their models.

🚢🛳Essex Shipbuilding Museum Trip🚢🚢

Our class went to the Essex Shipbuilding Museum on June 4th. Our class learned lots of things about building ships and shipbuilding terms. We were split into four groups. Each group rotated to four stations and learned new and different things about shipbuilding that extended their knowledge about the Northeast.

   

These pictures were taken during our first week of D.A.S.H. (Disability Awareness Starts Here). We were testing our smarts by doing different activities. This unit of D.A.S.H. was invisible disabilities, about people being intelligent in different ways. Before, as homework, we did a packet on seeing which smart we are most. The types of smarts are: Picture smart, Word smart, Music smart, Nature smart, Body smart, Number smart, People smart, and Yourself smart.

This was the second week of D.A.S.H., when we experienced what it's like to have a learning (invisible)disability.