- Challenge learning goals:
- Design and make a pattern/rapid prototype of a birdhouse
- Build a birdhouse
- Build a maker mindset
- Warm-up:
- experience, name and describe the faces of a birdhouse.
- Preparation:
- Students work in groups to share tools and ideas but each individual student makes their own pattern and birdhouse
Activities:
Materials for this Lesson:
- 6 half-sheets of centimeter dot paper per student
- Foam core board for second task (note foam core is likely to be in inches. One 24x36 sheet of foam core will make two bird houses. With care two sheets of foam core will make 5 bird houses)
- Scissors for prototype, cutting tools for foam (Falcon paper cutter works well)
- (centimeter rulers available for diagonals?)
- Pencils, scratch paper for recording measurements
- clear tape (scotch tape for prototype, packaging tape for final)
- straight edge tools
- Elmo, or board, for demonstrating square centimeters
Timeline:
Warm Up
- 5 minutes
Task 1: Dot Paper Prototype
- Launch: 3 minutes
- Build: 30 minutes
- Measure: 3 minutes
- Synthesis: 8 minutes
Task 2: Foam Core
- Revise: 30 minutes
- Synthesis: 5 minutes