Technology Education

Welcome to the fourth year of Tech Ed here at Richfield Elementary School.

7th and 8th Grade Tech Ed courses are designed to test students' ability to work in teams, follow rules and directions, and use innovative ideas to solve problems.

A major focus of these courses is to have students learn the 'Engineering Design Process,' and various safety topics.

 The Engineering Design Process

Class Letter Home and Safety Agreement - Sign and return this before you can work in the shop room

 

 

7th Grade Tech Ed

 

 

7th graders will take Tech Ed during 3rd and 4th quarter.  They will spend 9 weeks working on various projects.  Some topics include paper towers, building racecars, How it Works research, Rube Goldberg and simple machines, and the Engineering Design Process.

 

How it Works Handout - Explanation and requirements for this research project

How it Works Scoring Sheet - The grading rubric

How Stuff Works.com - A great resource!

Discovery.com - Links to many great things, including Mythbusters.

DiscoveryEducation - You might find a video or photos here.

 

 

 

 

 

8th Grade Tech Ed

8th graders will take Tech Ed during 1st and 2nd quarter.  They will spend 9 weeks working on various projects.  Some topics include, computer-generated bridges, wooden bridges, measurement, building prototypes, the iterative process, hearing safety, collecting data, and the Engineering Design Process.

 

 Sound Research PowerPoint Template - Open this file and save it to your flashpen or H drive under a different file name.  Then delete all the slides EXCEPT the ones your group made.  When you are done, save it to your flashpen, and to My Big Campus.  Mr A will then put all 5 group's slides together. 

 

Building Big - Many links about specific bridges

Bridge Forces Lab - on Building Big site

edu.Glogster - Bridge Glog login site

 

Bridge Research Project - this is the description of the assignment, and its requirements

Bridge Research Project Scoring Sheet - this is the scoring sheet for the project that reminds you of the requirements

 

Designing, planning, building.  Pictures from this year's 8th graders.

The strongest bridge last year was built by Noah and Brandon.  It held 25 pounds.

The strongest bridge from first quarter held 21.5 pounds and was built by Maddie and Sarah.

 suspension bridge Precision

Also in this image gallery, you'll find pictures of 8th graders working on and testing their 'Reacher' projects.

 

 

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