STEM Activity Hoop Glider Challenge (Variable Testing)

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1st - 10th

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Math, Critical Thinking, Engineering

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Projects, Activities, Centers

Standards

CCSS7.G.B.4

CCSS6.EE.C.9

CCSS6.RP.A.1

CCSS6.RP.A.2

CCSS6.RP.A.3

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My 6th grade STEM students LOVED this activity! It was great challenge for introducing them to the EDP process and beginning to build those collaboration skills (we worked in partners).

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We used this during our summer space camp---great activity. Students were so creative with their designs as well as launch techniques. Thanks!

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Hoop Glider STEM Activity with Digital & Printed Journal and Teacher Slides!

The hoop glider STEM activity includes building a glider made from straw, tape, and index cards or paper to travel the farthest distance. Different activity versions are provided to accommodate student ability and time constraints.

Topics Covered:

Scientific Method through Variable Testing
STEM Career: Aerospace Engineering
Engineering Design Process
Forces of Flight
Ratios

This hands-on activity shows students how to optimize an engineering design through systematically testing variables. Students will learn how to build a standard hoop glider out of straws and paper, conduct testing, and then change different variables to determine the effect on flying distance.

Lower Elementary: Younger students use the engineering design process student handouts to design a hoop glider to travel the farthest distance. This activity is teacher-led and uses trial and error in testing.

Upper Elementary: Students use the engineering design process to build and test a hoop glider. Teachers can extend the learning by testing one or two variables as a class or as partners.

Middle School: Students use the full activity guide to test 5 variables in building a hoop glider compared to the standard glider. Students will try different numbers of hoops, lengths of straws, the distance between hoops, and hoop diameters (including ratios between hoops).

Included in this product:

Teachers guide with links to resources
Editable Teacher Slides
Editable Student handouts
Science behind hoop gliders
Student design sheets including "compact version" with engineering design handouts or "expanded version" for testing 5 different hoop glider variables
Engineering design posters
STEM Career Connection: Aerospace Engineering
Reflection questions

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CCSS7.G.B.4

Know the formulas for the area and circumference of a circle and use them to solve problems; give an informal derivation of the relationship between the circumference and area of a circle.

CCSS6.EE.C.9

Use variables to represent two quantities in a real-world problem that change in relationship to one another; write an equation to express one quantity, thought of as the dependent variable, in terms of the other quantity, thought of as the independent variable. Analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using graphs and tables, and relate these to the equation. For example, in a problem involving motion at constant speed, list and graph ordered pairs of distances and times, and write the equation 𝘥 = 65𝘵 to represent the relationship between distance and time.

CCSS6.RP.A.1

Understand the concept of a ratio and use ratio language to describe a ratio relationship between two quantities. For example, “The ratio of wings to beaks in the bird house at the zoo was 2:1, because for every 2 wings there was 1 beak.” “For every vote candidate A received, candidate C received nearly three votes.”

CCSS6.RP.A.2

Understand the concept of a unit rate 𝘢/𝘣 associated with a ratio 𝘢:𝘣 with 𝘣 ≠ 0, and use rate language in the context of a ratio relationship. For example, “This recipe has a ratio of 3 cups of flour to 4 cups of sugar, so there is 3/4 cup of flour for each cup of sugar.” “We paid $75 for 15 hamburgers, which is a rate of $5 per hamburger.”

CCSS6.RP.A.3

Use ratio and rate reasoning to solve real-world and mathematical problems, e.g., by reasoning about tables of equivalent ratios, tape diagrams, double number line diagrams, or equations.

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