Date: April 26, 2007
Time:
8 AM to 2 PM
Cost: $30 – Member Schools $125 for Non-Member Schools
See website www.salemcollaborative.org for member list.
Workshop Series Instructor: TBA
Description: The workers who moved a million stone blocks (each
weighing about 2.5 tons) to build the Great Pyramid at Giza knew how to manipulate
forces to get work done. That was over 4000 years ago, but the principles
are important NOW too! This workshop is for middle school and high school
freshman science and math teachers. We will conduct hands-on investigations
to explore the “trade-offs” in many different systems that manipulate forces
to accomplish tasks. We will use some simple machines to explore force, work,
and energy - but this is NOT a workshop about classifying and using simple
machines. It’s more than that. It’s a “How Stuff Works” extravaganza! Be
ready to compete in a Rube Goldberg-esque contest. If you are a bicyclist,
and you are able to easily transport your bicycle, please bring it to the
workshop – we will need it for analysis. This approach to studying force
manipulation may just revolutionize your force and motion science curriculum!
|
Subject Area |
Grade 6 – 8 |
High School |
|
Physical Science |
13. Differentiate between potential and kinetic
energy. Identify situations where kinetic energy is transformed into potential
energy and vice versa. |
1. Motion and Forces Central Concept: Newton’s laws of motion and gravitation describe
and predict the motion of most objects. 2. Conservation of Energy
and Momentum Central Concept: The laws of conservation of energy and momentum
provide alternate approaches to predict and describe the movement of objects. |
|
Technology/Engineering |
1. Materials,
Tools, and Machines Central Concept: Appropriate materials, tools, and machines enable
us to solve problems, invent, and construct. 2. Engineering
Design Central Concept: Engineering design is an iterative process that
involves modeling and optimizing to develop technological solutions to
problems within given constraints. |
1. Engineering Design Central Concepts: Engineering design involves practical problem
solving, research, development, and invention/innovation, and requires
designing, drawing, building, testing, and redesigning. Students should
demonstrate the ability to use the engineering design process to solve
a problem or meet a challenge. |
Please register online at our website www.salemcollaborative.org
or email the following information to Jim Kearns at registration@salemcollaborative.org.
If you have registration questions, please call Jim at 781-771-4860.
Make checks or Purchase Orders payable to CPMSIE
and bring it to the Workshop
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one week prior to the workshop.