UPT+Discussion

** Working Title: **Save a Life  ** Content Standards: ** Physics (Gr. 11) · Students will calculate the velocity and acceleration of a moving object. · Students will determine the velocity and displacement for objects under constant acceleration. · Students will learn to use an organized strategy for solving motion problems. · Students will use Newton’s Laws of Motion in solving problems.  1.1.3 - Develop and refine a range of questions to frame the search for new understanding. 1.1.6 – Read, view, and listen for information in any format in order to make inferences and gather meaning. 1.1.9 – Collaborate with others to broaden and deepen understanding. 2.1.1 – Continue an inquiry-based research process by applying critical thinking skills to information and knowledge in order to construct new understandings, draw conclusions, and create new knowledge. 2.1.3 – Use strategies to draw conclusions from information and apply knowledge to curricular areas, real-world situations, and further investigations. 2.1.5 – Collaborate with others to exchange ideas, develop new understandings, make decisions, and solve problems. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.1.1 – Conclude an inquiry based research process by sharing new understandings and reflecting on the learning. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">3.1.5 – Connect learning to community issues. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">4.1.8 – Use creative and artistic formats to express personal learning. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Purpose: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">You work with a health organization and need to drop medical supplies in Japan, without breaking them. Students construct an apparatus that will keep a raw egg from cracking when dropped from increasing heights, i.e. the “Egg-Drop” experiment. <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Essential Question connecting content to purpose: **<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">How can you apply the principles of Newton’s second law, force and acceleration due to gravity, collision, and resilience to save peoples’ lives? <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Work habits: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students follow directions, manage time, organize work, work collaboratively, attend to detail, and think creatively and critically. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Thinking skills: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Students // calculate // velocity. Students // design // a schematic that they use to // make // an apparatus. They // guess // which apparatus is best and // justify //their answers. Students also // make analogies // between this experiment and real- world situations. Finally, after the experiment, students // evaluate // their apparatus, // identify error, //and // revise // the design in a written paper. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Formats of Products and/or Performances:  ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Audience: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">classroom teacher, peers, American Red Cross, or other philanthropic organizations <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Role of learner in task: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">scientist for a health organization <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt;">**Instructional arrangement(s):** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;"> · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">group assignment to create the apparatus, schematic, rationale, and chart o <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">groups are created by the teacher and each group will have at least one strong student and one weak student · <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: normal;">individual assignment for paper including revisions and real-life situations <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Technology or resources suggested: ** <span style="border-bottom: #666666 1pt solid; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; display: block; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 3.75pt; mso-border-bottom-alt: solid #666666 .75pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-top: 0in;"><span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Collaborative teaching roles and responsibilities: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">LMS - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Schedule library time with the teacher - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Demonstrate how to use OPAC to find books, magazines and videos relating to the project - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Contact a local helicopter pilot or cargo plane pilot to speak with the students - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Assist students in finding sources <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teacher - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Teach students content required for the project such as, Newton’s second law, gravitational acceleration, collision, and resilience. - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Schedule library time with the LMS - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Find an area to perform the egg-drop - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Explain the project and grading rubric to students - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> Assist students in finding sources - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Answer questions about calculations and designs. - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Monitor egg dropping - <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Grade the schematic, calculations, apparatus, and papers <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Timeline: **<span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">5 Classes <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 1 – (LMC) The teacher explains the project. The LMS shows the students helpful materials. Students have time to research and brainstorm ideas with their group members. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 2 – (Classroom) Students create their schematic and make calculations based on their idea. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 3 – (Classroom) Students build the actual apparatus and finalize calculations from the previous day. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 4 – (Drop Site) Students drop their apparatuses with the egg from increasing heights and record this data in a chart. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">For homework, students individually write a short paper that analyzes the data chart. The paper includes an evaluation of their apparatus, what worked well, what did not, and what changes they would make. Students conclude the paper with more real-life examples that relate to the egg-drop experiment. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Day 5 – (Classroom) During the first half of class, the class discusses the overall experience of the egg-drop experiment and students share some of their papers.
 * Universal Planning Tool**
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Information Literacy/Inquiry Standards/21st c. Skills: **
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">schematic with calculations
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">apparatus to protect the egg
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">rationale for your design
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">chart of drop information
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">revisions you would make to the apparatus
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">real-life situations in which you could use this knowledge
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Volunteer helicopter pilot or cargo plane pilot
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Britannica online
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The story of science: Newton at the center, compiled by Joy Hakim
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Force and Motion, Kyle Kirkland
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">Motion video, Minds on science series
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">The Science Teacher
 * <span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';">ODYSSEY Magazine
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