Angry Birds

Ok, I just read Amber's blog entry about Tiki Lavalaunch (which I had to download) and then Angry Birds came up in my OSTA board meeting (which I am skyping with right now).  Nicole Duncan (a board member) has turned this obsession for the app (angry brids) into a STEM project for her class.  I intend on contacting her through email and seeing if I can work with her in developing this idea for our classroom.  What I got so far is that the students have made life size plush toys (math--scale/proportions and home ec--sewing--Glover?), catapults (science--physics, simple machines and engineering--building the catapult) and building the crash site (engineering).  We could bring in the technology of the iPad by using the app Angry Birds to develop background knowledge as well as basic physics knowledge.

Pre-teach:

• simple machines
• projectile motion
• forces
• gravity
• Newton's Laws
• stability of structures

Assessments:

• Science inquiry guide
• Engineering scoring guide
• speech scoring guide
• NETS standards
• writing assessment--which one?