Design and Modeling – Grade 7
Students learn how design influences their lives. Students also learn sketching techniques and use geometry as a component of design, measurement, and computer modeling. Students brainstorm, research, develop ideas, create models, test and evaluate design ideas, and communicate solutions.
First Quarter:
What is Engineering?
The Design Process
Second Quarter:
Measurement
Sketching and Dimensioning
Designing for Production
Emergency Lesson Plans
Seventh Grade – Design and Modeling – 1st and 4th blocks
Using their CHROMEBOOKS, Students should access Mr. Grimm’s web page at mrgrimmcrestdale.weebly.com or via the Crestdale website, to get emergency assignments as noted below.
Day 1-2 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about what is engineering.
Day 3-4 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be a comparison of standard and metric measurements.
Day 5-6 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about the history of measurement.
Day 7-8 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be about what are design elements.
Day 9-10 – Students should research and write a more than one page essay. The essay should be 12 point font, Times New Roman, and double spaced.
Essay should be a list and discussion of as many measuring devices as can be thought of.
Study Guide for End of Course Test on 14 January 2016
1. The process of making a raw material into a finished product; especially in large quantities.
Manufacturing
2. The ability to do work. Energy is one of the basic resources used by a technological system.
Energy
3. A measure in one direction
Dimension
4. The parameters placed on the development of a product or system. The requirements include the safety needs, the physical laws that will limit the development of an idea, the available resources, the cultural norms, and the use of criteria and constraints.
Requirements
5. A tool for systematically ranking alternatives according to a set of criteria.
Decision Matrix
6. The condition or quality of being true, correct, or exact; precision; exactness. The degree of correctness of a quantity or expression.
Accuracy
7. A measuring tool with two usually adjustable jaws used especially to measure thickness or diameter.
Caliper
8. Standardization of lines used on technical drawings by line weight and style.
Line Conventions
9. A preliminary visual of a possible idea for a design. Most thumbnail sketches are not full-size and have little detail. They are intended to quickly explore possible alternative designs.
Thumbnail Sketch
10. Thin lines capped with arrowheads, which may be broken along their length to provide space for the dimension numerals.
Dimension Line
11. The science of patterns and order and the study of measurement, properties, and the relationships of quantities using numbers and symbols.
Math
12. Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
Engineering
13. A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
Engineer
14. Systematic, scientific, documented study.
Research
15. An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems.
Design
16. Also referred to as the English system of measuring. The measuring system based on the foot, second, and pound as units of length, time, weight, or mass.
Customary System
17. Also called line width. The thickness of a line, characterized as thick or thin.
Line Weight
18. Having the dimensions of height and width, height and depth, or width and depth only.
Two Dimensional (2D)
19. A thin solid line perpendicular to a dimension line, indicating which feature is associated with the dimension.
Extension Line
20. The science and technology of building devices, such as electronic circuits, from single atoms and molecules.
Nanotechnology
20. The surroundings in which a person, animal, or plant lives.
Environment
21. The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently.
Ergonomics
22. A detailed description of the design and materials used to make something.
Specification
23. A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution.
Design Brief
24. Dimensions that show the exact location of parts of an object.
Location Dimension
25. A realistic way of drawing objects in three dimensions using a horizon line, a key edge, and two vanishing points.
Two-Point Perspective
26. The measurement of someone or something from head to foot or from base to top.
Height
27. Divisor; the number below the line in a fraction.
Denominator
28. Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; a sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output.
Process
29. Of, relating to, or resulting from industry.
Industrial
30. To form an idea of the amount or value of; assess.
Evaluate
31. The study of our natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
Science
32. An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
Innovation
33. The act of trying out a new procedure, idea, or activity.
Experimentation
34. A straight line passing from side to side through the center of a circle or sphere.
Diameter
35. A heavy solid line used on a drawing to represent the outline of an object.
Object Line
36. A point in space, usually located on the horizon, where parallel edges of an object appear to converge.
Vanishing Point
37. A line type that represents an edge that is not directly visible because it is behind or beneath another surface.
Hidden Line
38. The way people use resources to meet their wants and needs.
Technology
39. A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.
Invention
40. Extremely rapid increase.
Exponentially