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Coming Soon!  "Pneumatic Car- Intro to the Design Process from Google SketchUp to fabrication and testing of the prototype"

HOVERCRAFT	Magnetic Levitation
How to videos...Creating a design drawing of a hovercraft - Click HERE	How to videos...Creating a design drawing of a maglev train - Click HERE
How to videos...Constructing a model hovercraft- Click HERE	How to videos... Constructing a model  Creating the model (Part: 1)- Click HERE
Extra Resources- Click HERE	How to videos... Constructing a model Creating the model (Part: 2)- Click HERE  Students in Action Video: Click HERE
Extra video- simple hovercraft using a round styrofoam plate Courtesy of Bill Hermann, longtime Technology Education educator contributor	NSTA STEM Presentation of Maglev Materials: Click HERE

Special Thanks to Michael Tedeschi for all his work creating the above videos and documents on Hovercraft & Maglev.  

"Pneumatic Car- Intro to the Design Process from Google SketchUp to fabrication and testing of the prototype"

	This unit will be aligned to the Maryland State STEM Standards of Practice Framework & will be modified to a STEM Unit Design
1	Overview- Paper Body Air Car	Summary of Air Car Unit AssignmentsPaperBody.docx
2	Challenge Design Brief	MSTEGR7-RS01 PV Challenge Design Brief.doc
3	Common Core STEM Unit Seed doc	aircar_USTEM.pptx
4	ELA- Literacy Standards Reading, Writing	MSTEGR7-RS04 Final Activity Assessment_4_Grade 7_TE.doc
5	ELA resource	Reading- Move over corncobs_abv.doc
6	ELA resource	Assessment  Corncobs_assessment..doc
7	ELA resource - Engineering Journal	EngineeringJournal.doc
8	ELA resource- summary business letter, persuasive	MSTEGR7-RS07 P Vehicle writing Summaryworksheet.doc
9	MATH - data collection, spreadsheet creation line, bar two axes graph	sample spreadsheet 703_fall08aircar_Sample.xls
10		DIRECTIONS FOR AIR CAR SPREADSHEET.doc
11		Rate Quiz- MSTEGR7-AS2 PV Technology Education Rate Quiz.doc
12	TE - Design and the Problem Solving Process- Using Sketchup CAD software in the design process -- brainstorming/prototype/modeling ideas	CAD_scope&sequence.docx sketchupRubrics2.docx Create cool stuff with Google SketchUp - YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwxfOW2TP9E   SPT_Intro.skp   Design Movie - The Backpack Designer   http://www.thefutureschannel.com/dockets/realworld/designing_backpacks/index.php   Powerpoint- self paced directions for chassis sketchup design creation. chassisDesign5.pptx
13	Design video- exported from a sketchup design file  *UNDER CONSTRUCTION	Air Car- real one!  built and sold in France video>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVIwropRMME
14	ART - Air Car paper body directions	air car directions_paperBody.doc
15	ART - Air car paper body file	racer_body.doc
16	SCIENCE - DATA Collection	aircar_progressdata.docx
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		SKETCHUP Official WEBSITE www.sketchup.com download sketchup at their main site- both apple and windows MANY great resources for learning sketchup and videos for careers that use sketchup (sketchup youtube channel) click on "Training" and follow to excellent collection of tutorial videos HERE"S Where to begin learning Sketchup Tutorial training files http://www.sketchup.com/intl/en/training/   Below are skp files that open with sketchup and lead you through learning tools of sketchup, step by step Click on the link below, then click 'Download Model', select the "Sketchup 6 skp" and save the file to your computer. Then click to open with sketchup Introduction to sketchup Start a Drawing Part 1 Start a Drawing Part 2 Start a Drawing Part 3

Listing of Sketchup resource videos

Motivational videos- careers that use sketchup---

Art director of video game, "Uncharted 2" and how he uses sketchup in the design
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mkPRmqUlFw

3 min.

illustrator- scifi vehicles batmobile, minority report 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPtwK5K90i0&feature=relmfu

in the zome with Rob Bell 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knslrIM7tJ0&feature=relmfu

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Intro to sketchup8 - 10 minutes

getting started with sketchup part1 **sketchup8http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=OPkv9tRuO-c&NR=1 

There is also a part 2,3, and 4

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3D printing - glimpse into how the design process and CAD are used in the real world

FAB Lab- CCBC Catonsville campus
Intro video- great local resource for learning all about 3d rapid prototyping
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py16lW4TPJ0

website >>http://www.time-center.org/fablab/index.html

Sketchup and 3d printing
Plug in needed to export an STL file
Check out this website for more information
http://www.cadspan.com/tools 

3d prototyping video

http://www.youtube.com/Objettv?feature=relchannel

3d printing designer reaction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IZPZqSn7a0&feature=relmfu

2 min.

brad pitt, moneyball, bicycle 3d printing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjsUNMMyqR4

TEDTalks- about 3d printing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhYvDS7q_V8

14 min

3d printed model plane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=kRDg4UB9Ajg&feature=fvwp

5 min

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Sketchup Resources >> 
http://sketchupdate.blogspot.com/ 

Cool video 'commercial' for sketchup 1:31
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jb23enMOHyc&feature=player_embedded#!

Sketchup in Higher Ed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jXKC4CU5hg

6 1/2 minutes 

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