Next Generation State Standards
Curriculum Association
K-PS2-1. Plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different strengths or different directions of pushes and pulls on the motion of an object.
Students will understand strength and how Mechanical Engineers use push and pull to create different machines.
K-PS2-2. Analyze data to determine if a design solution works as intended to change the speed or direction of an object with a push or a pull.
Students will build different types of simple machines and they will experiment if it is useful.
MS-ETS1-1. Define the criteria and constraints of a design problem with sufficient precision to ensure a successful solution, taking into account relevant scientific principles and potential impacts on people and the natural environment that may limit possible solutions.
Students will understand the design of the machine in order to understand the function of the machine.
MS-PS2-1. Apply Newton’s Third Law to design a solution to a problem involving the motion of two colliding objects.
Students will be exposed to Newton’s Laws and why these Laws are important in our world.
MS-PS2-5. Conduct an investigation and evaluate the experimental design to provide evidence that fields exist between objects exerting forces on each other even though the objects are not in contact.
Students will be conducting experiments to ensure the machines they build will work.
3-5-ETS1-1. Define a simple design problem reflecting a need or want that includes specified criteria for success and constraints on materials, time, or cost.
Students will think of world problems that simple machines have or will fix.
K-2-ETS1-1. Ask questions, make observations, and gather information about a situation people want to change to define a simple problem that can be solved through the development of a new or improved object or tool.
Students will understand that there is a process to creating machines, it starts with an idea and grows.
1-PS4-4. Use tools and materials to design and build a device that uses light or sound to solve the problem of communicating over a distance.
Students will be taught about the materials that are used and needed for the creation of structures.