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Congratulations on being part of Jefferson-Morgan Elementary’s launch year of Project Lead the Way! I am excited to be your child’s teacher for this amazing program. Please stay current with our class website for important news and links throughout the remainder of the year.
What Is PLTW? Project Lead the Way (PLTW) prepares students to be the most innovative and productive leaders in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and to make meaningful, pioneering contributions to our world. PLTW partners with middle schools and high schools to provide a rigorous, relevant STEM education. Through an engaging, hands-on curriculum, PLTW encourages the development of problem-solving skills, critical thinking, creative and innovative reasoning, and a love of learning. The PLTW middle and high school STEM education programs give students a brighter future by providing them with a foundation and proven path to college and career success in STEM-related fields. STEM education is at the heart of today’s high-tech, high-skill global economy. For America to remain economically competitive, our next generation of leaders must develop the critical-reasoning and problem-solving skills that will help make them the most productive in the world. PLTW sparks the ingenuity, creativity, and innovation within all of our students.
Course Outline: Project Lead the Way’s cutting-edge program addresses the interest and energy of middle school students, while incorporating national standards in math, science and technology. PLTW is activity oriented to show students how technology is used in engineering to solve everyday problems. The instructional units excite and motivate students to use their imaginations and teach them to be creative and innovative, while gaining the skills they need to develop, produce and use products and services. Your child will be learning about automation and robotics using VEX robotics and Robot–C programming. Students will trace the history, development and influence of automation and robotics. They will learn about mechanical systems, energy transfer, machine automation and computer control systems. Students acquire knowledge and skills in problem solving, teamwork collaboration and innovation.
Volunteers/Engineers: If you are interested in volunteering your time, we would love to have you! It would also be a great experience for the students to receive feedback or evaluation from professional engineers and programmers. If you have an interest or connection to design, building, or programming in your field of work/study/hobby/interest, please consider visiting our classes during the semester. Remember you will need to have updated Pennsylvania Clearances in order to be part of this course. Contact me if you would be interested.
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Absences: The hands-on nature of the course will require daily participation and effort. Daily attendance is very important. Alternative assignments may be assigned as make-up work, however missing out on the work in class will result in missing key concepts.. Since make-up work can vary, it is essential that your child check-in with me after an absence to ensure that the correct work is completed. The design and completion of our robotics projects CANNOT be completed at home.
Grading Policy: The Project Lead the Way course will be graded using a 0-4 grading system for each project.
Work Place Standards/Agendas/Missing Work: Project Lead the Way will support many of the work place standards that are key to being competitive and successful in today’s world, such as cooperation, listening skills, critical thinking, problem solving, communication, computer skills, programming, project management, timeliness, and many more. Organization is another key to success, so it is important that your child use the planner that the school provides in a purposeful, meaningful way. For example, writing “project” isn’t very informative to a parent or forgetful student after a long day. I will frequently monitor your child’s entries and may provide feedback in the planner. Even though the planner should really be a helpful tool for your child, s/he may need your help in monitoring assignment detail and due dates, so I encourage you to check it as well. If your child has any missing work, I will often write the missing assignment and sign the note in the planner. This is a quick and immediate way to provide written feedback while reminding your child verbally. In Project Lead the Way, it is very important that your child participate actively during class. If missing work or lack of participation start to become an issue, we will work together to create a plan for success. Please sign your child’s planner in today’s section to show that your child has discussed and reviewed this “Course Overview” sheet with you.
LEVER VOCABULARY
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**You will need to label and classify each type of lever.