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This page contains resources for delivering Technology Education standards to Middle School students

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  
Challenge Design Brief  MSTEGR7-RS01 PV Challenge Design Brief.doc  
Common Core STEM Unit Seed doc  aircar_USTEM.pptx  
ELA- Literacy Standards Reading, Writing   MSTEGR7-RS04 Final Activity Assessment_4_Grade 7_TE.doc  
ELA resource  Reading- Move over corncobs_abv.doc  
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
17    
   

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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