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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mlt6kaNjoeI
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Projects 1 & 2
PROJECT A:
Create a scale drawing of the classroom and a plan to rearrange the furniture, supplies etc. to create a more user-friendly layout. To incorporate the theme of “Global Awareness” (21st Century Skills) you can arrange the room using the principles of feng-shui. Students should research color and determine what color the classroom walls should be painted (to improve the learning environment). Include feng-shui principles, diagrams and color samples.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Graph paper, measuring tape, pencils, paint color swatches, internet access, calculators
PROJECT B: From www.tryengineering.org: Design a Dome
Students are given specific design specifications and are told to propose an idea to the school. The school has been given a grant to design a dome on the roof. Students should research domes before beginning the hands on project.
a. 2010 collapse of the Minnesota Metrodome’s snow-laden inflatable roof.
b. Dome on Spaceship Earth at Disney’s Epcot Center
c. Read this:
The Geodesic Dome
Many structures require framing to provide shape and strength before an outer shell is created. A good example is the geodesic dome. A geodesic dome is a spherical or partialspherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles (geodesics) lying on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and also distribute the stress across the entire structure. Walther Bauersfeld was a German engineer, employed by the Zeiss Corporation, who, on a suggestion by the German astronomer Max Wolf, started work on the first projection planetarium during 1912.
Bauersfeld completed the first planetarium, known as the Zeiss I model during 1923, which is considered the first geodesic dome derived from the icosahedron, more than 20 years before Buckminster Fuller reinvented and popularized this design. Although Fuller was not the original inventor, he developed the intrinsic mathematics of the dome, thereby allowing popularization of the idea -- for which he received a U.S. patent in 1954. Spaceship Earth at Epcot, Walt Disney World, in Florida, USA is a geodesic sphere.
Uses of Domes
Geodesic domes have been used as the basis of many buildings and structures including collapsible camping tents. The National Science Foundation image to the right shows the deconstruction of a geodesic dome which for about three decades sheltered polar researchers and support crews who lived at the bottom of the world. The dome, spanning 164 feet and topping out at about 52 feet high, was dedicated in January 1975. It shielded a collection of buildings that housed scientists and support personnel year-round from wind and snow. The structure far outlived its projected expiration date.
Other Structures with Interesting Framing
Another interesting framing and construction project was the Statue of Liberty in New York, USA. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) was commissioned to design the massive iron pylon and secondary skeletal framework which allows the Statue's copper skin to move independently yet stand upright. He produced a 94-ft-high wrought-iron square skeleton that supports a secondary iron frame that carries a system of flat wrought iron bars.
The bars support the copper plates that form the statue's exterior skin. It has proved to be an excellent frame structure -- in a 50-mph wind, the monument only moves about 3 inches!
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Cardboard, Wooden dowels, Tape, Foil, Construction paper, Tissue paper, Glue, String, Rubber bands, Wire, Popsicle sticks, Paper cups, Straws, Pipe cleaners, Paper clips, Screen, Fabric.
Procedure:
1. As part of a team of architects, you must build a dome to hold 120 grams of coins, candy, or other materials. The structure must be at least 14 cm tall measured from the apex of the dome to the bottom. Think about the different ways you can use the materials to construct the dome’s structure. You can add a skin or shell out of different materials, or have the frame be the full product.
2. Have students draw a diagram of their planned domes and list the parts they think they might need. (They can adjust this later and also add more materials during construction.)
3. Have teams construct their domes with the requested materials list. Teams may request additional materials during the construction process or may trade materials with other student teams.
4. Have team suspend their dome on strings provided by the teacher and score their own work.
5. Place domes on table and load with 120 grams (4.23 ounces) of candy, pennies, or other weights. Since U.S. pennies minted after 1982 weigh 2.5 grams, put 48 pennies one by one on the dome until it collapses.
6. Additional note:
I have enjoyed this project even more when students have designed what goes inside the dome too (interior design elements and what they think the school would benefit from having on the roof: green house, swimming pool etc.)
Create a scale drawing of the classroom and a plan to rearrange the furniture, supplies etc. to create a more user-friendly layout. To incorporate the theme of “Global Awareness” (21st Century Skills) you can arrange the room using the principles of feng-shui. Students should research color and determine what color the classroom walls should be painted (to improve the learning environment). Include feng-shui principles, diagrams and color samples.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Graph paper, measuring tape, pencils, paint color swatches, internet access, calculators
PROJECT B: From www.tryengineering.org: Design a Dome
Students are given specific design specifications and are told to propose an idea to the school. The school has been given a grant to design a dome on the roof. Students should research domes before beginning the hands on project.
a. 2010 collapse of the Minnesota Metrodome’s snow-laden inflatable roof.
b. Dome on Spaceship Earth at Disney’s Epcot Center
c. Read this:
The Geodesic Dome
Many structures require framing to provide shape and strength before an outer shell is created. A good example is the geodesic dome. A geodesic dome is a spherical or partialspherical shell structure or lattice shell based on a network of great circles (geodesics) lying on the surface of a sphere. The geodesics intersect to form triangular elements that have local triangular rigidity and also distribute the stress across the entire structure. Walther Bauersfeld was a German engineer, employed by the Zeiss Corporation, who, on a suggestion by the German astronomer Max Wolf, started work on the first projection planetarium during 1912.
Bauersfeld completed the first planetarium, known as the Zeiss I model during 1923, which is considered the first geodesic dome derived from the icosahedron, more than 20 years before Buckminster Fuller reinvented and popularized this design. Although Fuller was not the original inventor, he developed the intrinsic mathematics of the dome, thereby allowing popularization of the idea -- for which he received a U.S. patent in 1954. Spaceship Earth at Epcot, Walt Disney World, in Florida, USA is a geodesic sphere.
Uses of Domes
Geodesic domes have been used as the basis of many buildings and structures including collapsible camping tents. The National Science Foundation image to the right shows the deconstruction of a geodesic dome which for about three decades sheltered polar researchers and support crews who lived at the bottom of the world. The dome, spanning 164 feet and topping out at about 52 feet high, was dedicated in January 1975. It shielded a collection of buildings that housed scientists and support personnel year-round from wind and snow. The structure far outlived its projected expiration date.
Other Structures with Interesting Framing
Another interesting framing and construction project was the Statue of Liberty in New York, USA. Alexandre Gustave Eiffel (designer of the Eiffel Tower) was commissioned to design the massive iron pylon and secondary skeletal framework which allows the Statue's copper skin to move independently yet stand upright. He produced a 94-ft-high wrought-iron square skeleton that supports a secondary iron frame that carries a system of flat wrought iron bars.
The bars support the copper plates that form the statue's exterior skin. It has proved to be an excellent frame structure -- in a 50-mph wind, the monument only moves about 3 inches!
MATERIALS NEEDED:
Cardboard, Wooden dowels, Tape, Foil, Construction paper, Tissue paper, Glue, String, Rubber bands, Wire, Popsicle sticks, Paper cups, Straws, Pipe cleaners, Paper clips, Screen, Fabric.
Procedure:
1. As part of a team of architects, you must build a dome to hold 120 grams of coins, candy, or other materials. The structure must be at least 14 cm tall measured from the apex of the dome to the bottom. Think about the different ways you can use the materials to construct the dome’s structure. You can add a skin or shell out of different materials, or have the frame be the full product.
2. Have students draw a diagram of their planned domes and list the parts they think they might need. (They can adjust this later and also add more materials during construction.)
3. Have teams construct their domes with the requested materials list. Teams may request additional materials during the construction process or may trade materials with other student teams.
4. Have team suspend their dome on strings provided by the teacher and score their own work.
5. Place domes on table and load with 120 grams (4.23 ounces) of candy, pennies, or other weights. Since U.S. pennies minted after 1982 weigh 2.5 grams, put 48 pennies one by one on the dome until it collapses.
6. Additional note:
I have enjoyed this project even more when students have designed what goes inside the dome too (interior design elements and what they think the school would benefit from having on the roof: green house, swimming pool etc.)