Mechanical Engineering

Mechanical engineers are part of your everyday life, designing the spoon you used to eat your breakfast, your breakfast's packaging, the flip-top cap on your toothpaste tube, the zipper on your jacket, the car, bike, or bus you took to school, the chair you sat in, the door handle you grasped and the hinges it opened on, and the ballpoint pen you used to take your test (sciencebuddies.org, 2013).

So what does a Mechanical Engineer do?
Nate Ball

Week 1

Bill Nye Science Guy Simple Machines

Activity: Catapult

Grab a spoon and place one marshmallow on the handle.  Take aim and launch your marshmallow at the target (large beaker).

Lesson: Simple Kitchen Machines

• Work in teams to determine if the items are simple machines.  Complete worksheet and glue in your science journals.

Exit Ticket- Simple Machines

Week 2 & 4
Pre-K - 1st
Read  How Things Move and Push It or Pull It


2nd-5th
Read
IPad- Magic Pen 2