6th Grade
In the eighth grade students are learning about Construction Technologies with a focus on bridges. Following the engineering design process students are given the challenge to build a bridge to span a set distance and they start with research. During this steps the design teams will research bridge types and the forces the act on a bridge and using this knowledge they will design the truss system for their bridge. Once all of the bridges are completed the students will evaluate each bridge and rank them by the live load that they predict the bridges can hold. During the testing phase the bridges are place over the span and a bucket is attached to the roadway. Students will pour sand into the bucket until the bridge fails then analyze where it failed, why it failed and how would they redesign it.
The current school record is held by the team of Ian Sullivan and Terry Gilmore; their bridge weighed just 17g and it held 39,300g, or in US weights the bridge was just over 1/2 oz. and it held over 86 lbs.
Students will also study Orthographic Projections and Multi-view Drawings and understand how some objects can become distorted. Students will be able to represent a 3-dimensional object in a 2-dimensional space.
Finally students in the 6th grade will be introduced to robotics by building and programming Lego NxT Robots. This is a basic introduction that can be expanded on after school in the Robotics Club.
The current school record is held by the team of Ian Sullivan and Terry Gilmore; their bridge weighed just 17g and it held 39,300g, or in US weights the bridge was just over 1/2 oz. and it held over 86 lbs.
Students will also study Orthographic Projections and Multi-view Drawings and understand how some objects can become distorted. Students will be able to represent a 3-dimensional object in a 2-dimensional space.
Finally students in the 6th grade will be introduced to robotics by building and programming Lego NxT Robots. This is a basic introduction that can be expanded on after school in the Robotics Club.