2021-2022 STEM/STEAM Class Activities
Career Focus Transportation: Aviation, Trains, Cars, Buses & Bicycles
35 weeks of hands – on STEM/STEAM activities
Module 1 – Introduction to STEM/STEAM ( science & methods) – S.T.E.A.M.
Goals:
- Apply and document an engineering design process measured by identifying criteria and constraints, making representations, testing and evaluation, and refining the design as needed to construct a product or system that solves a problem.
Deliverables:
- Students will apply the scientific method and solve a problem
- Students will describe the different STEAM disciplines
Module 2 – The Future & Career Opportunities In Transportation
Goals:
- Students will learn about transportation management and the job of traffic manager
- Students will learn about distribution centers, warehouse and plant locations and how things happen before packages are delivered to the consumer
- Students will explore how various current issues affect the future of transportation
Students will explore a career in transportation
Module 3 – Road Trip
Goals:
- Students will learn what maps legends are used for
- Students will learn how to locate information to plan a trip via car, bus, plane, or train
- Students will learn to measure mileage using the key given on the map
- Students will learn to work cooperatively with team members to complete a task
- Students will learn what goes on into planning a road
- Students will learn how to develop a logical reasonable itinerary
- Students will learn to communicate thoughts clearly and effectively
- Students will learn to create graphs or charts displaying the cost of travel and embed the graphs in written presentation
- Students will learn to write persuasive essay
Module 4 – Product & Delivery
Goals:
- Students will learn how to understand different modes of transportation
- Students will explore geospatial technology using interactive maps
- Students will explore fuel-consumption data
- Students will learn to describe intermodal transportation
- Students will learn to create a map showing the route of a product from origin to final destination
- Students will learn to determine whether a route using right turn philosophy is fuel efficient
- Student will learn to identify factors contributing to variations in fuel consumption
- Students will explore the use of geospatial technologies for route planning
- Students will learn how to identify factors involved for efficient urban route planning
- Students will explore use of geospatial technologies
- Students will develop interstate routes for trucks delivering goods to distribution centers
- Students will learn to identify factors involved for interstate route planning
Module 5 – Movement of International Shipments
Goals:
- Students will learn to analyze the consequences of an economic
decision..
- Students will learn to determine the best economic decision evaluating the alternatives.
- Students will learn to describe the influence of market economies through cost savings
- Students will learn to analyze economic decisions and risk when selling internationally
- Students will explore the role of financial institutions in Incoterms transactions
- Students will learn to analyze information and identify use of documents in a transaction
- Students will learn to analyze economic decisions made when shipping
- Students will learn to analyze the economic consequence for each mode as they interact with each other.
- Students will learn to identify cause-and-effect relationships in shipping and warehousing.
- Students will learn from the customer’s viewpoint, compare and contrast needs of customer
- Students will be aware of government rules and regulations and soooo much more.
Education Drone Program is a 3 day a week 6 week program
Week 1 – Drone Introduction
- Why drones?
- Drone research activity
- Learn about the drone components
- Activity
Week 2 – Build
- Build and update the drones
- Science of flight
Week 3 – Fly
- Science of flight
- Flight safety & flight safety research activity
- Connect the drone s with “free flight mini
- Flight activity
Week 4 -Code
- Intro to Programing
- Coding activities
- Advanced coding challenges
Week 5- Preliminary
- Have students create a course practicing piloting and coding skills
- Prepare for the showcase
Week 6- Showcase and Drone Olympics
- Relay race
- Drone programming challenge
- Drone build off
- Engineering notebook
- Drone Design
- Live presentation
- Video presentation