8th Grade - Rockets
EQ: How can students at Cass Middle School help nasa use force and motion to design, build, and launch a rocket with optimal HEIGHT and/or Distance?
ELA
EQ: How can I communicate the engineering design process of my rocket? Standard Addressed: ELA: SL5 Integrate multimedia and visual displays into presentations to clarify information, strengthen claims and evidence, and add interest. ela_rockets_door_sign.docx rockets_photojournaling_rubric.docx |
Week of 1/23-27:
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Math
EQ: How can we determine the height of a rocket with a function? Standard Addressed: MGSE8.F.3 Interpret the equation 𝑦 = 𝑚𝑥 + 𝑏 as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line; give examples of functions that are not linear. For example, the function 𝐴 = 𝑠 2 giving the area of a square as a function of its side length is not linear because its graph contains the points (1,1), (2,4) and (3,9), which are not on a straight line. math_rockets_door_sign.docx stem_rockets.pdf |
Week of 1/2-1/6:
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Science
EQ: How can you construct a rocket out of a 1 or 2 liter with enough mass to defy air resistance and gravity to have the highest flight? Standard Addressed: S8P3. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information about cause-and-effect relationships between force, mass, and the motion of objects. b. Construct an explanation using Newton’s Laws of Motion to describe the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object. SPS8. Obtain, evaluate, and communicate information to explain the relationships among force, mass, and motion. b. Construct an explanation based on experimental evidence to support the claims presented in Newton’s three laws of motion. (Clarification statement: Evidence could demonstrate relationships among force, mass, velocity, and acceleration.) science_rockets_door_sign.docx |
Monday (1/23):
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Social Studies
EQ: How did segregation impact the race for space? Standard Addressed: SS8H7 Evaluate key political, social, and economic changes that occurred in Georgia during the New South Era. b. Analyze how rights were denied to African Americans or Blacks through Jim Crow laws, Plessy v. Ferguson, disenfranchisement, and racial violence, including the 1906 Atlanta Riot. ss_rockets_door_sign.docx |
Week of 1/17-1/20:
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Eighth Grade Team STEM Meetings
stem_meeting_sign-in_sheets.pdf
stem_meeting_sign-in_sheets.pdf