Engineering

• What’s In My Brain: Ramp vs Bike

  Students will analyze examples and non-examples to deduce the topic: simple vs compound machines.

  Show 3 Steps

  1. First, students get a set of items categorized in two groups.

  2. Then they get a set of ungrouped items. Which columns will they go in?

  3. Finally, I reveal the topic: simple vs compound machines.

• Notice, Wonder: A House
• Notice, Wonder: Akron
• Notice Wonder: Electronics
• Notice Wonder: Turbine

  Your students will be surprised by the size of this turbine… and by what’s hanging from it!

• Notice Wonder: Z-Machine