Warmup: 1) Turn in your permission forms to the front basket. 2) Open up your notebook to the Table of Contents. 3) Draw a line under the last entry – “The Big Three – Life Webs.” The brain unit is over. 4) New section – SCIENTIFIC METHOD. 5) First entry – paper platforms.

Learning target: With my team, we will COLLABORATE and RECORD in our journals parts one and two of the Engineering Design Outline for the PAPER PLATFORM PROJECT.

You are learning a SKILL You have used the skill your entire life without thinking about it – now we want to go into more depth. You have to go from where you are at to making a poster board. The brain learns by making mistakes – dive in and the process will be learned quicker

Announcements: PFs due Wednesday – FT this Friday First vocabulary quiz next Monday – notecards for extra credit Movie due in three weeks – don’t forget to have form in hand.

Mystery – what was true on Saturday anywhere you stood on planet earth?

Today in your notebook – “Paper Platforms” Your task: Lift the Dictionary (and more!) 8 cm off the table. Materials: 1 piece of notebook paper, as little tape as possible. TURN TO YOUR ENGINEERING RUBRIC in your notebook (Green sheets)

1) Identifying and Defining a problem to be solved Problem: Briefly describe the problem. I need to build a paper airplane that can be landed in a cardboard box placed 20 feet from where I throw it. Background: Vocabulary, pictures, observations after playing – INTERNET, BOOKS, EXPERTS – and is written and labeled clearly in your notebook. The four forces of flight; what you observe after “playing” a bit; a diagram of the forces of flight – these can all be used here. Explaining the problem: This is the key part of 1. Describe or explain the problem USING the information that you learned while doing the background. All the forces of flight will have to be taken into account if I am to be successful. If I have to much thrust, it will fly over the box. Too little thrust, it won’t reach it.

Explaining the Problem Supporting a large book with a piece of paper is challenging but doable. Here’s why: (talk about the facts – what you have learned already – NOT what you plan to do in the future – that’s later…)