6th Grade Engineering and Robotics
with
Coach Ernst
Exploring Technology
Syllabus
Intended Audience
Grade 6
Purpose of Course
Exploring Technology prepares students with an understanding of what is technology, the universal systems model, and opportunities to apply the engineering design process in problem solving.
Course Overview
In this course, students learn all about the nature of technology and problem solving. Students have opportunities to study the scope of technology and its impacts on society. They learn about the core concepts of technology and about the various approaches to solving problems, including engineering design and experimentation. Students participate in engineering-design activities to understand how criteria, constraints, and processes affect designs. Students are involved in activities and experiences where they learn about brainstorming, visualizing, modeling, constructing, testing, experimenting, and refining designs. Students also develop skills in researching for information, and communicating design information.
Course Length
9 weeks
Connections
Exploring Technology builds on K–5 experiences and develops a student's understanding of the scope of technology and the iterative nature of technological design and problem-solving processes. Likewise, students participate in engineering design activities to understand how criteria, constraints, and processes affect designs. Students will be involved in activities and experiences where they learn about brainstorming, visualizing, modeling, constructing, testing, experimenting, and refining designs. Students will also develop skills in researching for information, communicating design information, and reporting results.
Exploring Technology provides the foundation for future studies in the sequence. Students learn how Technology, Innovation, Design, and Engineering interrelate and are interdependent.
Grading Protocol
Infinite Campus Description | Description | Weight |
Pre Assessment | Pre-Test | 0% |
Assessment During Learning | Engineering Design Journals, Discussions, Quizzes, Tests | 25% |
Guided/Group Practice | Classwork, Daily Work, Performance, Projects, Labs | 45% |
Summative Assessment | Post Test/Capstone Project | 30% |
STANDARDS
MSENGR-EET-1: Students will examine the nature of engineering & technology. | MSENGR-EET-2: Students will evaluate the impacts of engineering & technology on Society |
MSENGR-EET-3: Students will explain the engineering design process. | MSENGR-EET-4: Students will demonstrate an understanding for a technological world through hands-on projects. |
MSENGR-EET-5: Students will analyze the designed world of engineering, electronics, manufacturing, and energy systems. | MSENGR-EET-6: Students will examine and research careers in fields related to engineering & technology. |
MSENGR-EET-7: Students will develop leadership skills and work ethics. |
DISTRICT EXPECTATIONS FOR SUCCESS
| Student Progress | Semester progress reports shall be issued 4 ½ weeks into each semester. The progress of students shall be evaluated frequently and plans shall be generated to remediate deficiencies as they are discovered. Plans shall include appropriate interventions designed to meet the needs of the students. Please sign up and check students’ progress using Infinite Campus. |
Academic Integrity | Students will not engage in an act of academic dishonesty including, but not limited to, cheating, providing false information, falsifying school records, forging signatures, or using an unauthorized computer user ID or password. See the Code of Student Conduct - Student Rights and Responsibilities and Character Development Handbook. |
| Homework | Homework assignments, when given, will be due on the due dates given in class. Students may be asked to bring in materials, if applicable, to complete classroom projects.
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| Late Work | Student work must be completed within the prescribed time limit. The maximum point allotment will be 80%. Late assignments will incur an additional 10 point deduction each day it is late. Assignments more than three days late will not be accepted.
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Make Up Due to Absences
| It is the student’s responsibility to make arrangements with the teacher to receive any work missed due to absence(s). Make-up work must be completed within the designated time allotted. See Board Policy IHEA. |
SCHOOL EXPECTATIONS FOR SUCCESS
| CLASSROOM EXPECTATIONS | 1. Be on time for class every day! 2. Use your time wisely. 3. Do not enter the lab area unless directed to do so. 4. Respect the people, equipment, and furnishings of the classroom and lab at all times. 5. No eating, chewing gum, or drinking in the classroom. 6. Do not get up out of your desk without permission for any reason. 7. Follow direction the first time they are given. 8. Do not talk when others are talking. 9. When you need to speak, raise your hand and wait to be acknowledged. 10. Clean your work area, when directed, before class ends. You will be dismissed individually, by groups, or by rows. |
| MATERIALS & SUPPLIES | USB Flash Drive, Pocket Folder, Pen/Pencil
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DISCIPLINE PLAN
| Minor Offenses: 1st Offense = Warning/Conference with student 2nd Offense = Reassign seat 3rd Offense = Phone call to parent/Afterschool detention 4th Offense = Referral to Grade Level Administrator Major Offenses: Immediate Referral: Profanity and obscene words/gestures Weapons Skipping Drugs Fighting, Bullying, Threats or Harassment Inappropriate bodily contact |