Egg Drop Evaluation
Students complete this worksheet after testing their egg drop design and watching others in the class. They sketch their design, and then reflect on how and why it was successful, with a focus on materials choice. They’re encouraged to look at areas that could be improved upon, as well as ideas that others had that might help their design, which they’re asked to incorporate in their improved design.
Learning goals
- We are learning to build new vocabulary from a range of sources including technical and subject specific language.
- We are learning to gather ideas and information in spoken texts by making notes, asking questions and seeking assistance and presenting ideas and opinions using appropriate levels of formality.
- We are learning to use active listening skills, appropriate tone, pace, pitch and volume to communicate and interact clearly and appropriately in a range of situations, discussions and presentations.
- We are learning to construct data displays from given or collected data, including tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values.
- We are learning to recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore how sustainability impacts product, service and environment design to meet community needs.
- We are learning to investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system.
- We are learning to investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes.
- We are learning to critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment needed to produce designed solutions.
- We are learning to generate, develop and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representations.
- We are learning to select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions.
- We are learning to evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on success criteria.
- We are learning to plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions, both individually and collaboratively.
- We are learning to understand that natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties that can influence how they are used, e.g. metal and plastic waste can lead to pollution.
- We are learning to examine design and technologies that impact the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs.
- We are learning to describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system.
- We are learning to explore needs or opportunities for designing and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions.
- We are learning to generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques.
- We are learning to select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions.
- We are learning to use design criteria to evaluate ideas and solutions.
- We are learning to sequence steps to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions.
- We are learning to build new vocabulary from a range of sources including technical and subject specific language, such as synonyms and antonyms.
- We are learning to collect, interpret and discuss data using digital tools, e.g. tally charts, digital tables, graphing or spreadsheets; represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays.
Curriculum alignment
AC9M4ST01
9
Acquire data for categorical and discrete numerical variables to address a question of interest or purpose using digital tools; represent data using many-to-one pictographs, column graphs and other displays or visualisations; interpret and discuss the information that has been created
AC9S4I06
9
Write and create texts to communicate findings and ideas for identified purposes and audiences, using scientific vocabulary and digital tools as appropriate
AC9S4I05
9
Compare findings with those of others, consider if investigations were fair, identify questions for further investigation and draw conclusions
AC9S4I04
9
Construct and use representations, including tables, simple column graphs and visual or physical models, to organise data and information, show simple relationships and identify patterns
AC9S4I03
9
Follow procedures to make and record observations, including making formal measurements using familiar scaled instruments and using digital tools as appropriate
AC9S4I02
9
Use provided scaffolds to plan and conduct investigations to answer questions or test predictions, including identifying the elements of fair tests, and considering the safe use of materials and equipment
AC9S4I01
9
Pose questions to explore observed patterns and relationships and make predictions based on observations
AC9S4H02
9
Consider how people use scientific explanations to meet a need or solve a problem
AC9S4H01
9
Examine how people use data to develop scientific explanations
AC9S4U04
9
Examine the properties of natural and made materials including fibres, metals, glass and plastics and consider how these properties influence their use
AC9E4LY02
9
Listen for key points and information to carry out tasks and contribute to discussions, acknowledging another opinion, linking a response to the topic, and sharing and extending ideas and information
AC9E4LA11
9
Expand vocabulary by exploring a range of synonyms and antonyms, and using words encountered in a range of sources
AC9TDE4P05
9
Sequence steps to individually and collaboratively make designed solutions
AC9TDE4P04 9Use given or co-developed design criteria including sustainability to evaluate design ideas and solutions
AC9TDE4P03 9Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques to safely make designed solutions
AC9TDE4P02 9Generate and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate attributions, technical terms and graphical representation techniques, including using digital tools
AC9TDE4P01 9Explore needs or opportunities for designing, and test materials, components, tools, equipment and processes needed to create designed solutions
AC9TDE4K02 9Describe how forces and the properties of materials affect function in a product or system
AC9TDE4K01 9Examine design and technologies occupations and factors including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs
ACELY1687 8.4 Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and information ACTDEP017 8.4Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment
ACSIS069 8.4 Reflect on investigations, including whether a test was fair or not ACSIS216 8.4 Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings ACSIS066 8.4 Consider the elements of fair tests and use formal measurements and digital technologies as appropriate, to make and record observations accurately ACSIS065 8.4 With guidance, plan and conduct scientific investigations to find answers to questions, considering the safe use of appropriate materials and equipment ACSIS064 8.4 With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and make predictions based on prior knowledge ACSHE062 8.4 Science knowledge helps people to understand the effect of their actions ACSHE061 8.4 Science involves making predictions and describing patterns and relationships ACSSU074 8.4 Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties that can influence their use ACTDEP018 8.4Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions individually and collaboratively
ACSIS071 8.4 Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings using formal and informal representations ACTDEP016 8.4Select and use materials, components, tools, equipment and techniques and use safe work practices to make designed solutions
ACTDEP015 8.4Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
ACTDEP014 8.4Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to produce designed solutions
ACTDEK013 8.4Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes
ACTDEK011 8.4Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a product or system
ACTDEK010 8.4Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability that impact on the design of products, services and environments to meet community needs
ACMSP096 8.4 Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values ACELY1688 8.4 Use interaction skills such as acknowledging another’s point of view and linking students’ response to the topic, using familiar and new vocabulary and a range of vocal effects such as tone, pace, pitch and volume to speak clearly and coherently ACELA1498 8.4 Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources into students’ own texts including vocabulary encountered in research
ST2-8PW-ST
old
Describes the characteristics and effects of common forms of energy, such as light and heat
MA2-18SP
old
Selects appropriate methods to collect data, and constructs, compares, interprets and evaluates data displays, including tables, picture graphs and column graphs
ST2-1WS-S
old
Questions, plans and conducts scientific investigations, collects and summarises data and communicates using scientific representations
ST2-2DP-T
old
Selects and uses materials, tools and equipment to develop solutions for a need or opportunity
ST2-3DP-T
old
Defines problems, describes and follows algorithms to develop solutions
ST2-4LW-S
old
Compares features and characteristics of living and non-living things
ST2-5LW-T
old
Describes how agricultural processes are used to grow plants and raise animals for food, clothing and shelter
ST2-6MW-S
old
Describes how adding or removing heat causes a change of state
ST2-7MW-T
old
Investigates the suitability of natural and processed materials for a range of purposes
ST2-9PW-ST
old
Describes how contact and non-contact forces affect an object’s motion
ST2-10ES-S
old
Investigates regular changes caused by interactions between the Earth and the Sun, and changes to the Earth’s surface
ST2-11DI-T
old
Describes how digital systems represent and transmit data
MA2-3WM
old
Checks the accuracy of a statement and explains the reasoning used
MA2-2WM
old
Selects and uses appropriate mental or written strategies, or technology, to solve problems
MA2-1WM
old
Uses appropriate terminology to describe, and symbols to represent, mathematical ideas
EN2-9B
old
Uses effective and accurate sentence structure, grammatical features, punctuation conventions and vocabulary relevant to the type of text when responding to and composing texts
EN2-1A
old
Communicates in a range of informal and formal contexts by adopting a range of roles in group, classroom, school and community contexts
MA2-DATA-02
new
Iinterprets data in tables, dot plots and column graphs
EN2-VOCAB-01
new
Builds knowledge and use of Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 vocabulary through interacting, wide reading and writing, and by defining and analysing words
EN2-RECOM-01
new
Reads and comprehends texts for wide purposes using knowledge of text structures and language, and by monitoring comprehension
MA2-DATA-01
new
Collects discrete data and constructs graphs using a given scale
EN2-OLC-01
new
Communicates with familiar audiences for social and learning purposes, by interacting, understanding and presenting
VCDSCD029
Generate, develop, and communicate design ideas and decisions using appropriate technical terms and graphical representation techniques
VCSIS067
Safely use appropriate materials, tools, equipment and technologies
VCSIS068
Use formal measurements in the collection and recording of observations
VCSIS070
Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings
VCSIS071
Reflect on an investigation, including whether a test was fair or not
VCSIS072
Represent and communicate observations, ideas and findings to show patterns and relationships using formal and informal scientific language
VCDSTS023
Recognise the role of people in design and technologies occupations and explore factors, including sustainability, that impact on the design of solutions to meet community needs
VCDSTC024
Investigate how forces and the properties of materials affect the behaviour of a designed solution
VCDSTC027
Investigate the suitability of materials, systems, components, tools and equipment for a range of purposes
VCDSCD028
Critique needs or opportunities for designing and explore and test a variety of materials, components, tools and equipment and the techniques needed to create designed solutions
VCSIS065
With guidance, identify questions in familiar contexts that can be investigated scientifically and predict what might happen based on prior knowledge
VCDSCD030
Select and use materials, components, tools and equipment using safe work practices to produce designed solutions
VCDSCD031
Evaluate design ideas, processes and solutions based on criteria for success developed with guidance and including care for the environment and communities
VCDSCD032
Plan a sequence of production steps when making designed solutions
VCELA293
Incorporate new vocabulary from a range of sources, including vocabulary encountered in research, into own texts
VCELY307
Interpret ideas and information in spoken texts and listen for key points in order to carry out tasks and use information to share and extend ideas and use interaction skills
VCMSP179
Construct suitable data displays, with and without the use of digital technologies, from given or collected data. Include tables, column graphs and picture graphs where one picture can represent many data values
VCSSU060
Natural and processed materials have a range of physical properties; these properties can influence their use
VCSSU056
Science knowledge helps people to understand the effects of their actions
Australian Curriculum covers QLD / SA / WA / NT / TAS / ACT.
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