Lesson 1: Water Wheel Initial Models
Duration of Days: 3
Lesson Objective
After observing a phenomena video, plan how you will construct a water wheel model with your group including what materials are needed and how you construct the model. You have two days to construct a functioning water wheel with your group.
How does the structure of the waterwheel relate to its function?
How does the energy get transferred to the water wheel to make it spin?
Waterwheel
Energy
Transfer
HS-PS3-1 Create a computational model to calculate the change in the energy of one component in a system when the change in energy of the other component(s) and energy flows in and out of the system are known.
Math skills for relevant formulas.
DOK 2, 3.
Observations of real world water wheels and the engineering behind them as well as how water flows.
All water flow has the same level of energy.
Teacher made model ready, preconstructed pieces of the wheel, check in with teacher regarding model plan before construction begins, modeling how to use tools