FBRIFBRI in the Middle SchoolsJanuary 27, 2009

Middle School Middle School Collaborative Collaborative Patrica Bernhardt Patrica Bernhardt Beth HayesBeth HayesTracy VassilievTracy Vassiliev

Wood Composite Curriculum Connections

• Inquiry Project• Science

– Property of matter– Density, Weight,

Pressure

• Math– Spreadsheets,

programming formulas, ratios

• Science/Math Notebooks– Modeling research

• Inquiry• Inductive thinking

– Record Protocol– Record the Data

• Qualitative– Observations

• Quantitative– Mass, dimensions, etc…

Classification of Matter

Carbon

Element

Caffine

Compound

Pure Substance

Milk

Homogeneous

Lucky Charms

Heterogeneous

Mixture

Matter

Properties of matter and how matter changes Alloys - a homogenous mixture of two or more

elements (one of which is metallic)Brass (Cu & Zn)Steel (C & Fe)

Composites - Engineered materials made from two or more constituents materials with significantly different physical or chemical propertiesMatrix & Reinforcement

Straw & Mud (Ancient bricks)Fiberglass

Wood Composite Test (flour,salt, sawdust ,water) How do composites affect the

properties of materials?

Differentiate

Provide wood composite recipe

Allow students to develop and test their own recipes.

Data CollectionAllows students to construct

meaning from raw dataTechnology Component

SpreadsheetsFormulas to calculate formulas

Volume, density, weight, pressure, ratios

Graphdensity to mass ratio

Curriculum ConnectionsPhysical ScienceMathCutting edge research

Relevant to WHY students need to learn STEM subjects

• Funding for this work was provided by The National Science Foundation under grant numbers EEC- 06 48793 and EPS-05 54545.