Magnet Engineering Design Challenge
This week, you will be using the Engineering Design Process to solve a problem in your bedroom or at home using magnets. You could use magnets to connect something together, or to keep two things apart. You can draw your idea, create a model of your idea, or create a working prototype if you have the ability and supplies on hand.
Begin by exploring the videos below and then navigate to the magnet inventions on the side bar for inspiration.
Then, look around your house for problems that could be solved with a magnet invention. Draw or create a model of your invention.
Post a comment to share your invention and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the problem or need.
2. What problem does your product solve?
3. Who can use your product?
4. How does your product work?
If you'd like, ask an adult to record a demonstration of your idea in action. Have fun!
Begin by exploring the videos below and then navigate to the magnet inventions on the side bar for inspiration.
Then, look around your house for problems that could be solved with a magnet invention. Draw or create a model of your invention.
Post a comment to share your invention and answer the following questions:
1. Describe the problem or need.
2. What problem does your product solve?
3. Who can use your product?
4. How does your product work?
If you'd like, ask an adult to record a demonstration of your idea in action. Have fun!
Check out these amazing inventions with magnets.
Explore what magnets can do with these games.
Bridge Building Challenge
We are continuing our study of forces this week, this time by considering some of the forces involved in designing a bridge (as an activity your child designed and tested their own bridge made of paper).
Dear Third Grade Families,
One fun thing you can do to support this week’s learning is sit down together with your child and enjoy browsing through some of the world’s most intriguing and extraordinary bridges http://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/30-of-the-craziest-bridges-in-the-world . My jaw literally dropped when looking at these images! It’s amazing what engineers can design!
Here are a few extension resources if this topic interests your child.
What Makes Bridges So Strong?
www.youtube.com
A SciShow Kids viewer wrote us to ask how bridges are strong enough to carry cars and trucks! Jessi and Squeaks can explain -- with blocks! ---------- Like SciShow ...
Make amazing architecture with candy and toothpicks.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/geo_gumdrops.html
Exploratorium: Science Explorer: Geodesic Gumdrops
www.exploratorium.edu
Start with 3 gumdrops and 3 toothpicks. Poke the toothpicks into the gumdrops to make a triangle with a gumdrop at each point.
Think you know which type of bridge belongs where? Test your knowledge with this activity.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/build-bridge-p4.html
Build a bridge so that the train can safely move across.
http://www.abcya.com/build_the_bridge.htm
Build the Bridge | ABCya!
www.abcya.com
Build the Bridge is a fun physics-based game that will challenge children of all ages. The goal is the build a bridge so that the train can safely move from the left ...
Stay curious my friends!
One fun thing you can do to support this week’s learning is sit down together with your child and enjoy browsing through some of the world’s most intriguing and extraordinary bridges http://www.thrillist.com/travel/nation/30-of-the-craziest-bridges-in-the-world . My jaw literally dropped when looking at these images! It’s amazing what engineers can design!
Here are a few extension resources if this topic interests your child.
What Makes Bridges So Strong?
www.youtube.com
A SciShow Kids viewer wrote us to ask how bridges are strong enough to carry cars and trucks! Jessi and Squeaks can explain -- with blocks! ---------- Like SciShow ...
Make amazing architecture with candy and toothpicks.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/geo_gumdrops.html
Exploratorium: Science Explorer: Geodesic Gumdrops
www.exploratorium.edu
Start with 3 gumdrops and 3 toothpicks. Poke the toothpicks into the gumdrops to make a triangle with a gumdrop at each point.
Think you know which type of bridge belongs where? Test your knowledge with this activity.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/build-bridge-p4.html
Build a bridge so that the train can safely move across.
http://www.abcya.com/build_the_bridge.htm
Build the Bridge | ABCya!
www.abcya.com
Build the Bridge is a fun physics-based game that will challenge children of all ages. The goal is the build a bridge so that the train can safely move from the left ...
Stay curious my friends!