Class Calendars - Mr. Leach
Engineering Design II
| Week of | Activity - Day 1 | Activity - Day 2 | Activity - Day 3 |
| 01/08/2024 | Get to Know You: Q&A, Safety Slideshow | TinkerCAD tutorials: Place, View, Move, Rotate, Size, Group, Copy, and Duplicate Sandbox time in TinkerCAD Finish GTKY questions and submit |
Homecoming Day - class does not meet |
| 01/15/2024 | MLK Day | snow day | snow day |
| 01/22/2024 | snow day | Types of valves: Check Valves and Relief Valves | Solidworks modeling practice (30 min). Continue work on Can Lift competition. |
| 01/29/2024 | Can Lift hydraulics project - minimize friction and mass | Can Lift - design and building continued | Can Lift - design and building continued |
| 02/05/2024 | Can Lift - testing day | Can Lift - refine and improve | Can Lift Contest |
| 02/12/2024 | Solidworks refresher | Solidworks refresher | Solidworks refresher CSWA Testing (Sat. 8am) |
| 02/19/2024 | Presidents' Day | Hydraulics system components - notes. Video: creating the blue LED - Shuji Nakamura | CERT and ACT boot camp |
| 02/26/2024 | Review: plane-to-plane mates. Automoblox Reverse-Engineering Project: Divisions of labor - wheels, chassis, canopy |
Reverse-engineering project continued | Reverse-engineering project continued. Discuss control systems. |
| 03/04/2024 | No School on Tuesday | Collaborate to find non-fitting parts in your toy assembly. | End of 3rd Quarter |
| 03/11/2024 | Control Systems videos and quiz on GradeCam. Wrap up reverse-engineering assemblies. | Hydraulics math | Bernoulli principle or Cuanda effect? |
| 03/18/2024 | Map of Engineering - video | Blue LED video and worksheet Quiz | Spirit Day |
| 03/25/2024 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 04/01/2024 | Brainstorming - design a family storm shelter for <$10K | Occupations research | Model #17 & #18 in Solidworks |
| 04/08/2024 | Eclipse Day - no school | Vehicle Sub-systems - 1-pg description. | Guest speakers from Murfreesboro police dept. |
| 04/15/2024 | Field trip to TCAT Smyrna and Nissan factory. | Robotic arm - HiWonder LeArm - assembly day | Day 2 - continued. |
| 04/22/2024 | TinkerCAD LED light show | Arduino hands-on lab - LED light show | RGB Arduino lab |
| 04/29/2024 | Active and Passive Buzzer - Arduino Labs | Quantify materials needed for step stool project. | Yearbook signing day |
| 05/06/2024 | Build wooden stool assembly | AP Testing - study hall | No School - flooding risk |
| 05/13/2024 | Finish wooden stool assembly - Model CSWP Problem #1 | ||
| 05/20/2024 |
Principles of Engineering & Technology
| Week of | Activity - Day 1 | Activity - Day 2 | Activity - Day 3 |
| 01/08/2024 | Recap 1st semester topics Benefits of creating Solidworks model configurations rather than creating a separate file for each variant. Green Book pgs 8-1 to 8-16 Machine Block |
Introduction to Wooden Puzzle Project. Constraints: 5-6 pieces total composed of 4 to 6 blocks each. |
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| 01/15/2024 | MLK day | snow day | snow day |
| 01/22/2024 | snow day | Finish puzzle assembly file. Make exploded view and animate same. | Assemble puzzle pieces with glue. Build drawings from parts. |
| 01/29/2024 | Dimensioning Rules - ANSI. Complexity analysis continued. | Make technical drawing for each part of your wooden puzzle. Apply the ANSI standards for dimensioning. | Generate and print all pages for your manufacturing packet.
1) Cover Sheet – team member names, picture of puzzle optional 2) Hand-sketched isometric drawings. Represents your brainstorming stage. Pgs 3-7 or 3-8) Technical drawing pages (Go to SW drawings and “Save as” pdf format.) Next-to-last page) Paste a “snip” of the collapsed view and the exploded view. This is the answer key. Last page) Complexity Analysis page – with average time-to-solve calculated. |
| 02/05/2024 | Arduino intro / Mousetrap car project intro | Design and begin building mousetrap car - constraints & criteria established. | Build day - mousetrap cars |
| 02/12/2024 | Test and Refine day - mousetrap cars | Mousetrap car races | Disassemble cars; Solidworks design race - castle block; Part A1 or A2 |
| 02/19/2024 | Presidents' Day | Conclude MT car races Modeling in Solidworks - part B1 - convert entities and offset entities |
Modeling a straw in Solidworks. Build a tetrahedron of straws & string in real life. Veritasium video. |
| 02/26/2024 | Solidworks Assembly Practice part J1 - Tetrahedron kites - finish assembly. Test fly if weather permits. Complete tetrahedron assembly in SW. | Arduino introduction - microprocessors, sketches, input/output, etc. | Arduino lab - voltage, resistance, and current. |
| 03/04/2024 | Application Programming Interface, PinMode, other commands defined. Solidworks Part B2. | Solidworks Part A3 | End of 3rd Quarter |
| 03/11/2024 | Buzzer Arduino lab | Large-Scale Engineering research project. Pick and topic, partner, and begin. | Research continues |
| 03/18/2024 | Research completed. Presentations begin. | Presentations Continue | Spirit Day |
| 03/25/2024 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 04/01/2024 | Presentations continue. | Solidworks - Model 17, 18 in 6th and 7th period. | Spaghetti-Toothpick-Straw tower instant challenge |
| 04/08/2024 | Eclipse Day - no school | Active/Passive Buzzer Arduino programming lab | Continued |
| 04/15/2024 | Part A4 and A5 - Solidworks | Continued | State Testing - no class |
| 04/22/2024 | The Line/Arc Tool - resketching the Bottle Opener - CSWA Practice Part B2 | SolidWorks Quizizz - 11 Nets of a Cube | Passive Buzzer Arduino Lab |
| 04/29/2024 | KNex - Squares and Rectangles Lab | Superbridge video | Yearbook signing day |
| 05/06/2024 | SuperBridge documentary - Phase I | Modeling Part B3 from CSWA student package. | No school - flooding risk |
| 05/13/2024 | Green SolidWorks Book - complete pgs 7-9 to 7-21. The Spur Gear. | Continue Spur Gear - Finish SuperBridge documentary | |
| 05/20/2024 |
(Middle School) Exploratory Engineering
| Week of | Activity - Day 1 | Activity - Day 2 | Activity - Day 3 |
| 03/11/2024 | Class expectations. Safety ppt. Get-to-Know-You Q&A. | TinkerCAD tutorials | |
| 03/18/2024 | Isometric and Orthographic sketches. | Spirit Day | |
| 03/25/2024 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 04/01/2024 | Properties of Flight - video and paper airplane lab | Model a 3D block of your own making. Computational thinking PPT. Begin Minecraft Education coding lab. Escape Estate. | Escape Estate lab continued |
| 04/08/2024 | Eclipse Day - no school | Deductive vs Inductive Reasoning. Logic Puzzle #14. Escape Estate summary. | TinkerCAD virtual circuits lab - LED light show. |
| 04/15/2024 | State Testing - class does not meet | State Testing - class does not meet | State Testing - class does not meet |
| 04/22/2024 | Testing continued. | Video - Innovation Nation - Build a Flextangle - Make -Up Safety Tests | Research - STEM careers in Tennessee - finish flextangles |
| 04/29/2024 | Hands-On Arduino LED light show lab. | Presentations - STEM companies located in TN | Yearbook signing day |
| 05/06/2024 | Characteristics of Flight - Air as a fluid - Google Earth Pro flight simulator | No School - flooding risk | |
| 05/13/2024 | MakeCode Academy - Geometric patterns worksheet | ||
| 05/20/2024 |