Science - Forces Acting on a Structure

Today's class focused on the following:

- Using appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including tension, compression, torque, and load in oral and written language

- Identify internal forces acting on a structure, and describe their effects on the structure

- Identify external forces acting on a structure, and describe their effects on the structure

Activity taken from Wonderville

https://wonderville.org/app/asset/forces-of-wonder

Review and real life examples

Activity taken from PBS Building Big: Forces Lab

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/lab/forces.html

Geometry Challenge

Exploring The Four Colour Theorem in Geometry class

Students' strategy to figure out Part A

Students' thinking - Part A

Part B

Part C

Health - Examining ingredients

https://youtu.be/Yda8RtOcVFU

Geometry - Orthographic Representation of 3D figures

Orthographic representations of our designs

Next, we exchanged our drawings with a classmate. We hid our models and the challenge was to use our orthographic representations to produce an isometric 3D drawing. Some of us needed some practice so we stopped and did some practice on the computer.

http://www.teacherled.com/resources/isodraw/isoshapeload.html

Some of our drawings on the computer

Our isometric drawings