How do you know if a chemical equation is balanced? What can you change to balance an equation? Play a game to test your ideas!

Students learn about the engineering design process and how it is used to engineer products for everyday use. Students individually brainstorm solutions for sorting coins and draw at least two design ideas. They work in small groups to combine ideas and build a coin sorter using common construction materials such as cardboard, tape, straws and fabric. Students test their coin sorters, make revisions and suggest ways to improve their designs. By designing, building, testing and improving coin sorters, students come to understand how the engineering design process is used to engineer products that benefit society.

Students learn basic marketing concepts and use professional marketing techniques to compose an advertisement for a hybrid vehicle. In the process, they learn the principles of comparative analysis.

Standards (Wisconsin):•     B&IT or MM&E Standards•     Wisconsin CTE-Common CoreMK1.d.14.h: Demonstrate the steps  involved in the personal selling  process. MK1.e.7.h: Identify ways business  can positive customer relationshipsContent Learning Objectives:1.      TSW will list the steps of the sales process2.      TSW will develop the steps of the sales process to match a product of their choice3.      TSW choose a product to represent to a potential seller Language Demands:Identify the language function of this lesson’s central focus and the associated vocabulary, symbols and syntax or discourse.1.    Vocabulary- The steps of the sales process: introduction, questioning, presentation, etc.2.    Discourse- The oral process of building a relationship with someone and matching their needs to a product/service

Students investigate the life cycles of engineered products and how they impact the environment. They use a basic life cycle assessment method that assigns fictional numerical values for different steps in the life cycle. Then they use their analyses to compare the impacts of their products to other products, and suggest ways to reduce environmental impact based on their analyses.

Students work as if they are electrical engineers to program a keyboard to play different audible tones depending on where a sensor is pressed. They construct the keyboard from a soft potentiometer, an Arduino capable board, and a small speaker. The soft potentiometer “keyboard” responds to the pressure of touch on its eight “keys” (C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C) and feeds an input signal to the Arduino-capable board. Each group programs a board to take the input and send an output signal to the speaker to produce a tone that is dependent on the input signal—that is, which “key” is pressed. After the keyboard is working, students play "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" and (if time allows) modify the code so that different keys or a different number of notes can be played.

Project for Marketing I class - Students must create a new product or service idea and present their work in front of the class. Explain the 4 Ps through a slide show or visual aid. Describe customer profile. Project guidelines and grading rubric attached along with one exemplar.