Unit Title (?)Choose a title that draws attention to and describes your hands-on, applied academic project.

Tech Explorer Catapult Integrated Curriculum Guide

Related Disciplines (?)List the type of courses that might use this unit (i.e. Algebra 1, General Science, Shop, Drafting, & Pre-Engineering.)

Tech Explorer

Project Author's Name (?)The name of the lesson author

Tech Explorer Team

Brief Project Description (?)help other teachers decide if this project is something they can do, please briefly indicate the equipment and materials they'd need to do this project. For example, you might need a mill, lathe, protractors and 4x2x0.25 pieces of aluminum for each student. Note that you can attach detailed material and equipment lists below.

This unit provides high school students with an experience similar to a technician’s in a manufacturing or repair environment integrating math, science, and technical skills to make a catapult. Students use a mill, lathe, drill press, hand punch, arbor press, hydraulic press, and other tools to fabricate parts and assemble a small catapult with which they compete at the end of the project. The project is infused with basic math through using and converting fractions and decimals and reading a metric and English scale at the beginning of the project. At the end of fabrication, students are exposed to the concept and application of a parabolic curve and the equation as it relates to a catapult ball height, velocity, and distance.

Materials & Equipment Required (?)help other teachers decide if this project is something they can do, please briefly indicate the equipment and materials they'd need to do this project. For example, you might need a mill, lathe, protractors and 4x2x0.25 pieces of aluminum for each student. Note that you can attach detailed material and equipment lists below.

See associated equipment guide attachment

Textbooks (?)List any textbook references for this lesson.

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Time for Lesson (?)What is the realistic amount of time students require to do this project? Again, this helps others in deciding how to fit this project into class hours.

Five dedicated Class Periods of 1.5 Hours each with preparatory instruction

Links & Resources (?)links to other useful web sites for ordering materials, showing as examples of the concept being used in industry, giving demonstrations on an online movie and providing other similar resources.

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