Project files

Monday, 10 Nov

Objective: describe and apply conventions used in technical writing; practice supporting claims with evidence and reasoning

Agenda:

1. Welcome and overview
2. If you have not already done so, submit a clean copy of your design AS BUILT for scanning. You can find your scanned design in the folder corresponding to your class.
3. Review conventions for formal documentation
  1. Attend to this brief presentation
  2. Review your documentation from last week: part 1 and part 2
  3. Ensure that the language, pictures, and graph you use in that documentation meet conventions.
  4. Ensure your Part 1 (and Part 2) documentation are in your Thermodynamics folder.
  5. Deliverable Create a sharing link to your Part 1 documentation. Paste the link in this form. due Monday <2000 PST (8 pm)
4. Review expectations for analysis and summary
  1. Generate and evaluate sample claim-evidence-reasoning
    1. Blue 1-4: Cardboard is a highly effective choice in strike test
    2. Blue 5 - 7: Cardboard is NOT a highly effective choice in strike test
    3. Red 1-3: Aluminum foil is a highly effective choice in heat test
    4. Red 4-7: Aluminum foil is NOT a highly effective choice in heat test
    5. Green 1-4: Fiberglass is a highly effective choice in heat and landing test
    6. Green 5 - 7: Fiberglass is NOT a highly effective choice in heat and landing test
    7. Yellow 1 - 3: Large parachutes are a highly effective choice in landing test
    8. Yellow 4 - 7: Large parachutes are NOT a highly effective choice in landing test
5. Share your responses with your tablemates
6. Use today's conversation and insights to refine your part 2 documentation
  1. Deliverable: [repeat from last week]: First draft of Part 2 of your documentation. Paste the link in this form.
  2. due Wednesday at start of class
7. Closing & next steps.

Homework:

due Wednesday at start of class [repeat from last week]: DRAFT of Part 2 of your documentation Paste the link in this form.

Plan ahead:

due Monday, 17 Nov <2000 PST Part 3 documentation Paste the link to your completed documentation in this form.

Wednesday, 12 Nov

Objective: share and enhance claims regarding the performance of your heat shield

Agenda:

1. Welcome and overview
2. Evaluate claims, evidence, and reasoning
  1. Brainstorm characteristics of effective CERs
  2. Share one of your CERs with your tablemates
    1. Identify elements that are particularly effective
    2. Suggest areas for improvement
  3. Repeat with other tablemates
  4. Time permitting, repeat with additional CERs
3. Refine your other CERs
4. If necessary, update your conceptual model; see these recommendations
5. Closing & next steps

Homework:

due tomorrow at start of class: sketch three models that show how energy flowed through your device: strike test, heat test, landing test [see agenda item 4]

Thursday, 13 Nov

Objective: use data to find patterns; use patterns to extrapolate

Agenda:

1. Welcome and overview
2. Initial thinking
  1. Work with your elbow partner to find the patterns in these series.
  2. Share your reasoning with your table partners; be prepared to explain your reasoning.
3. Discuss results and strategies as a class.
4. Using data to make predictions.
  1. Work with one or more partners to find the patterns in these temperature changes.
  2. Consider that these patterns come from physical systems ("real world")
5. Guided practice: introduce analysis tools in Logger Pro
  1. Create lines of best fit using Logger Pro (find summary of steps on slides 34 - 37)
  2. Predict temperature change after 7 minutes using graphical extrapolation, proportional reasoning, or algebraic thinking
    1. Sample 1
    2. Sample 2
6. Independent practice: make predictions about the final temperature on the protected side of your device if it were exposed to heat for 900 seconds.
  1. Data
    1. If your heat test lasted 180 or more seconds, use data from your heat test.
    2. If your heat test did not last 180 seconds, use Sample 3 data.
  2. Deliverable: Record responses in this form
7. Closing and next steps

Homework:
due Friday, 14 Nov, end of period: Refine documentation for Part 2

Friday, 14 Nov

Objective: Calculate figure of merit

Agenda:

1. Welcome & overview
2. During the project introduction, we introduced the term "figure of merit". Practice calculating figure of merit
  1. Review the rationale
  2. Model and practice
  3. Complete the independent practice on slide 15.
  4. Deliverable: Submit your answers in this form [also linked on last slide of presentation]
3. Check the figures of merit for each person at your table
  1. Revise the cost of your device
    1. Did you use more tape that you budgeted? Was your parachute gigantic? Did you throw away three batches of plaster of Paris? Did you crack an egg or melt the chocolate?
    2. If so, update the cost of your device
  2. Speed things up by using this figure of merit calculator
    1. Make a copy for editing access
4. Compare the performance of your heat shield with the performance of others' heat shields
5. DELIVERABLE: Complete part 3 documentation. Submit your documentation in this form due Monday, 17 Nov<2000 PST (8 pm)
6. Next steps and closing

Homework:
due Monday, 17 Nov Complete Part 3 documentation [see agenda item 5]