1. Burwood Goes Ballistic!
Year 7 and STEM

2. What is STEM? Science Technology Engineering Mathematics
Click on the robot image to launch the STEM video

3. How is STEM education different?
It’s integrated – science, technology, engineering and maths are all taught and used together.

4. Why is STEM important?
Students need an education with a solid foundation in STEM so that they are prepared to both work and live in the 21st Century

5. STEM at BGHS Support from all teachers
Provide constructive input and feedback
Have fun!

6. Problem Solving

7. Your Design Brief Design Construct Calibrate – change settings Test
A device which can accurately deliver a projectile to a target

8. Teams Work in teams from your Science and Maths classes
Build a design e-folio on Googledocs shared with your team and your teachers

9. Competition
Teams will compete in their classes to represent their class in an interclass competition
Competition:
Hit a target at 5 m
Hit a target at 10 m
Furthest distance
Click on the image to start the video of competition example

10. TODAY - The Jaffa Challenge
Build a model to test ideas and features of projectiles:
Rubber bands
Paddle pop sticks
Plastic spoons
Jaffas

11. Innovation
Original ideas
Investigation

12. Inventions
Creative design
Implementation
Collaboration
Evaluation

13. Evaluation
Positives
Minuses
Improvements