Technology, Engineering, and Design

Technology, Engineering, and Design

Welcome back to Virtual Class! Live class for October 6th I’m Mrs. Walton

Announments

• Progress Check 2 ends on October 9th
• October 13th, 2025 - School-Wide Holiday - Closed
• October 20th, 2025 - School-Wide Holiday - Closed
• Marking Period 1 ends November 3rd

October Holidays

• October 9th – Progress Check
• October 13 – Columbus & Indigenous People’s Day
• Two separate holidays celebrated on the same day
• Columbus Day – Federal holiday that celebrates Christopher Columbus’s arrival in 1492
• Indigenous Peoples’ Day – Honors Indigenous peoples and their history and culture
• October 20 – Diwali
• Hindu festival of lights – symbolizes spiritual victory of light over darkness

You need a computer mouse!SketchUp begins later in the semester.

Learning Target

Given a review of the bench project and additional discussion, I can

• Identify correct supplies needed to construct the bench project
• Identify a complete summary for this assignment
• Share feedback from the Marshmallow challenge

As demonstrated by a score of at least 80% on the quiz associated with this lesson.

Code Word: Engineering Design Process

Review from last week – Design

• Convergent thinking is a process that involves finding the best solution to a problem

Think of a multiple choice test where you have four options, but you have to pick the best answer.

Review from last week – Design

• Divergent thinking is a problem solving approach that encourages multiple ideas.

Example – writing an essay and brainstorming where you use creativity .

Review from last week – Design

• Attribute analysis is a technique to help a designer have many ideas.
• It begins with thinking about a familiar object and listing the attributes (characteristics) of that object

• A designer may ask – How can the attributes be changed?

Brief review

Notes are available in the Virtual Lesson Module if you would like to take notes

What inferences can you make about the design process the students used to create their sneakers?

Marshmallow Challenge – Your results

Marshmallow Challenge – Your results

Questions

Learning Target

Given a review of the bench project and additional discussion, I can

• Identify correct supplies needed to construct the bench project
• Identify a complete summary for this assignment
• Share feedback from the Marshmallow challenge

As demonstrated by a score of at least 80% on the quiz associated with this lesson.

Bench ChallengeThis is a CSA – one attempt

Build a bench with the supplies given:

• 5 sheets of copy paper (8.5 * 11 inch)
• Tape
• Scissors and ruler
• Coins or playing cards
• Device to take a photo
• Index card/sticky note/piece of paper with your name

Could you use any of these designs for inspiration?

Let’s Brainstorm

• Give me some of your ideas

Your Plan – Day 1

Your plan should be thorough and you can use these sentence starters:

• The supplies I plan to use are as follows…
• I plan to use --- sheets of paper
• I believe I will need to cut the paper like --- to meet the size requirement
• I plan to design the legs like ---
• The seat will be made like ---
• I will try to make a seat like number --- on the idea slide in the lesson

Your Build & Summary Day 2

Your summary should be thorough and you should use complete sentences. You will also upload a couple images. A link to a document is enclosed in the lesson.

Explain your design. Some things you can discuss:

• How did your final result match up to your plan? Did you change it a lot of make no changes?
• How tall was your bench and how wide was your bench?
• Where did you get your design inspiration?
• Explain or why not you think your design could be used at a bus stop.
• How long did it take you to create your design?

Questions

I encourage you to come to lesson help if you get stuck!

SEL – October

• Unity Day is October 22nd
• We come together to celebrate community through kindness, acceptance, and inclusion
• Prizes
• Participate in every SEL monthly challenge to increase your chances of winning a GRAND PRIZE
• Challenge this month
• Submit a photo of you wearing orange
• See Virtual lesson module for a link to submit

Wellness Check

• Our high fives for today!

Learning Target

Given a review of the bench project and additional discussion, I can

• Identify the correct supplies needed to construct the bench project
• Identify a complete summary for this assignment
• Share feedback from the Marshmallow challenge

As demonstrated by a score of at least 80% on the quiz associated with this lesson.

Exit Ticket- Code word

• Please take the quiz that corresponds to this live lesson
• Those in the live lesson today, let’s go to that quiz now and complete it together.
• Those watching the recording – go ahead and take the quiz – but be sure you have watched the entire recording.

Are you a “Fall” person?

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