Section outline

  • EXPLORE / TŪHURA

    EXPLORE / TŪHURA learning intentions:

    • We are EXPLORING...Simple machines By experimentation in class
    • We are EXPLORING...Forces and their effects
    • We are EXPLORING...Simple electricity
    • We are EXPLORING Bridge Building
    • We are EXPLORING Energy Transformations using everyday examples

    • Success Criteria: I can/have...

      • Uploading the Sphero app and learning to use the app to control and drive the sphero.
      • understanding the laws of motion and their application while driving the sphero.
      • Reviewing a brief history of Newton and his discovery of the laws of motion and gravity
      • begin to understand the kinetic and potential energy and energy transformation
      • understand how energy cannot be created nor destroyed, it is only transformed as the laws of the conservation of energy states.

      Activities:

      1. Upload Sphero app and program sphero.
      2. Begin to drive the sphero.
      3.  Begin to apply the laws of motion
      4. Begin to apply knowledge of friction
      5. Begin to apply energy transformation
      6. Question how the energy is created by the battery to move the sphero.
      7. Begin the inquiry on simple electricity and magnetism

      Follow Up Tasks:
       Education perfect tasks.


    • Revisit lesson of class for next sessions.