Play Topic Suggestions
Light Lab – Manipulate light, colors of light (spectrum), transparent, translucent, opaque, color theory, vision, reflection, refraction, difraction, forms of energy; light & sound.
Wind Tunnel – Wind energy, measuring distance/projectile, weather, currents, flight, inventors, force and motion, compare and contrast materials’ weight, structure, form, properties of matter, forces and interactions, Newton’s Third Law,
Loose Parts; Imagination Playground, Dinosaur Bones, ramps & balls, Nudel Kart – Structure, engineering design, categorizing, gravity, force and motion, energy, compare and contrast materials’ weight, structure, form, properties of matter, measuring objects, creating word problems with various loose parts, function and information processing.
Specialized Engineering Challenges- Sets of challenges focused on density, collisions, and force. Students will design experiment subjects and procedures, test, and record data.
Standards
Literacy, Mathematics, Science, Social-Emotional, Language Development, Physical Development, Social Studies, Creative Arts, Technology
ELA/Literacy –
6-8RST7 Identify and match scientific or technical information presented as text with a version of that information presented visually (MS-PS1-1), (MS-PS1-4)
6-8.RST.1 Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, charts, graphs, diagrams, etc. Understand and follow a detailed set of directions. (MS-PS-2-1), (MS-PS2-3)
Mathematics & Science –
MS-PS1-3. Gather and make sense of information to describe that synthetic materials come from natural resources and impact society.
MS-PSA1-7. Use evidence to illlustrate that density is a property that can be used to identify samples of matter.
MP.2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
MP.4 Model with mathematics.
NY-6.RP.4 Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
MS-PS2-1. Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.
MS-PS2-2. Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence that the change in an object’s motion depends on the sum of the forces on the object and the mass of the object.
