Cone Zone: A Comprehensive S.T.E.A.M. Activity
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Grade Levels
5th - 9th
Subjects
Resource Type
Standards
CCSS5.MD.B.2
CCSS5.NBT.A.3b
CCSS5.NBT.A.4
CCSS8.G.C.9
CCSS6.SP.A.2
Formats Included
- PDF
Pages
19 pages
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Description
Students will design a cone-shaped descent chute for a planetary landing craft to optimize stability and minimize speed in this engaging lesson. This activity lends itself to student scientists of many ages. Young learners will benefit from simply creating the cones and testing their effectiveness. Older students can use spreadsheets that they create to analyze the data on a much more sophisticated level.
Total Pages
19 pages
Answer Key
Does not apply
Teaching Duration
3 days
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Standards
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CCSS5.MD.B.2
Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8). Use operations on fractions for this grade to solve problems involving information presented in line plots. For example, given different measurements of liquid in identical beakers, find the amount of liquid each beaker would contain if the total amount in all the beakers were redistributed equally.
CCSS5.NBT.A.3b
Compare two decimals to thousandths based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.
CCSS5.NBT.A.4
Use place value understanding to round decimals to any place.
CCSS8.G.C.9
Know the formulas for the volumes of cones, cylinders, and spheres and use them to solve real-world and mathematical problems.
CCSS6.SP.A.2
Understand that a set of data collected to answer a statistical question has a distribution which can be described by its center, spread, and overall shape.
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