by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 20, 2018 | Discovering STEM, Distance Learning MS, Middle School Top Picks
This unit reviews the components that make up the manufacturing process such as safety, design, purchasing, processing, production, packaging, and distribution. Students learn about the three types of manufacturing, custom, job lot, and mass production, and experience...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 7, 2018 | Discovering STEM, Middle School Top Picks
Hours In this unit, students learn about density, buoyancy and a brief history of aerostats. Students will work in pairs to design and construct a 4-foot balloon that can hold as much payload as possible while still maintaining the capability to fly. Hot air balloon...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 6, 2018 | Discovering STEM, Distance Learning MS
This unit reviews the history of flight, parts of a plane, and the four forces of flight. Students use the forces of flight to design, construct, and modify a paper airplane that flies the farthest. Paper airplane Time: 1-2 Hours
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 5, 2018 | Discovering STEM, Distance Learning MS
Students learn the basics of orthographic drawings including the three views (front, right, and top), types of lines, and how different views share certain dimensions. Students progress from free-hand sketches to making scaled orthographic drawings using drafting...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 4, 2018 | Discovering STEM, Middle School Top Picks
Thanks to its simple and accessible user experience, Arduino has been used in thousands of different projects and applications. Teachers and students use it to build low cost scientific instruments, to prove chemistry and physics principles, or to get started with...
by Tom DiCamillo | Aug 3, 2018 | Discovering STEM
Hours Students learn how to create a scaled floor plan through an exploration in bubble diagrams, loose-line drawings, dimensioning, and real-world constraints and criteria. Architectural Designers Homework Core Concepts of Technology Design-Folio Part I: Design...
