Have You Built a 2 Meter Freestanding Newspaper Tower?

Objective: Use the design cycle.

Goal: Design and build the tallest freestanding tower possible using only tape, newspaper, and your creative prowess.

Investigate: Scrutinize fundamental shapes, lofty towers, and crafty bridges for design ideals to help your team build the tallest newspaper tower. Try building a preliminary small tower.

Plan: Construct design drawing for your tower. Demonstrate in drawn form what the tower will look like before it is built.

Create: Engineer your group's tower!

Evaluate: Judge the tower fir freestanding height.

Earthquake Building Construction Tech Ed

Tech Ed students extend their learning about earthquakes by constructing building. Ask one of these students who's building withstood most seismic activity. 

Lab: Convection Currents

Objective: Discover properties of heat. Investigate how the properties can cause movement of rocks on the surface of the Earth.

Magma circulates via convection currents, causing the lithospheric plates to move.

Vocabulary: 

Geology 

Conduction

Convection

Radiation 

Blog Poll: Are you challenged by the classwork given at school?

Are you challenged by the classwork given at school?

Never (3) 8%

Most of the time (6) 16%

Only by one or two teachers (20) 54%

All the time (8) 21%

Votes: 37

Poll closed December 18

Lander: Egg Drop

Everyone did well! Congratulations. 

Water Cycle Song II

Objective: It is time to show your creative side along with your knowledge of the water cycle terminology.

Vocabulary: 

1. Transpiration

2. Percolation

3. Aquifer

4. Evaporation

5. Condensation

6. Precipitation

7. Runoff

9. Groundwater

Building Landers

Build Day!