Teaching Sequence
In the parachute design, students in groups or teams of 3 students will construct a model of a parachute and test if the parachute falls slowly and land safely. They will design their parachutes with different materials and with different surface area for each material to solve their design challenge. Students will redesign and retest their parachutes until landing of the parachutes have improved performance. The aim is for the attached weight to the parachute land safely.
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TEACHING & LEARNING SEQUENCE
PARACHUTE STEM PROJECT UNIT PLAN
The unit plan for the parachute STEM project can be downloaded from here. The unit plan outlines the teaching and learning involved in the activities for the project.
​ It also provide the formative and summative assessments in in certain activities. It also provides criteria for the rubric which will be used in the summative assessment to assess the final product according to the design challenge and criteria involved.
TEACHING & LEARNING SEQUENCE
PARACHUTE STEM PROJECT UNIT PLAN
The gallery outline the teaching and learning sequence involved in the development of the parachute model. The unit plan provides the different activities or tasks to be done by the teacher as well as the students.
