SolidWorks Lesson Template for Teachers to Contribute
Cover Sheet for Exemplary Lessons/Units Project
Faculty Member Name: Rick Daugherty______
Date: Aug 24, 2006
School District:
Philip Barbour High School Complex
Teacher’s School email address:
or
Title of Lesson/Unit:
Designing a 2-liter Pop Bottle piece to be used for a Water Rockets
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Science, Technology, Engineering and Math STEM Concepts Addressed: As part of a school water rocket program, the students will be challenged to design a pop bottle piece that will be useful in the construction of a water rocket. In order to complete their task, basic measurement will be used as well as the technical method in the development of their design. The student will also have to become familiar with basic engineering principles in the process.
Length of instruction period: 2 hours
How many periods needed to implement lesson unit: 2 - 90 min classes
Grade Level(s) for use:
9 -12th grade
Objectives:
1. Using the Technology method to state the problem.
2. After an introduction to the SolidWorks program, become familiar with the vocabulary that includes line sketching, planes extrude and cut.
3. Measure a 2 liter pop bottle, and 10 different parts of bottles to help design a one-stage water rocket.
4. Use the SolidWorks program to “draw” a basic version of the pop bottle and the parts they need to design the water rocket.
Materials:
SolidWorks software
Rulers
Pop bottle 2-liter
Various parts of a pop bottle
Projector
Computer lab
Various scrap or recycled material for rocket parts (CD’s, file folders, tennis balls, pop cans, paper towels roles, etc.)
Procedures:
. The students will be first introduced to the history of water rockets using web sites attached. Then using the Technology method they will state the problem (we need to design a water rocket using only recycled material, design and draw a rocket using SolidWorks to travel the furthest distance straight up.) The students working in groups of two will sketch all measurements on white paper. After the measurements and sketches are checked, the students will then be shown the online tour of the SolidWorks program and then we will begin to learn the basic concepts of the program together. After the students appear to be comfortable with the vocabulary (such as line sketching, plane, extrude and cut), as well as how to achieve this in the program, they will begin to develop the drawing of the 2- liter pop bottle and the parts they will need to design their rocket, ie. Tennis ball, top of a bottle, file-folder cone, CD, etc., as individual drawings. Then join the parts together to show the final design for the water rocket and the exact placement of each part.
Assessment:
The students will be graded on the finished drawing, and how close the project matches the drawings. This will take approximately 3 to 4 weeks using SolidWorks and 2 weeks building the project and modifying drawings. But the time spent will be well worth it. It will allow them to move on to more complex projects, like the CO2 car. If it seems like they are having problems using software, then assign each group a part for the rockets and have them share the common parts to make up time
Resources Used: ______http://www.solidworks.com/pages/onlinetour/hiddentour.cfm
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2oRocketIndex.htm
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/pagrosse/h2orocketsi.htm
http://www.water-rockets.com/main.shtml
http://www.h2orocket.com/