DYSTOPIA UNIT

MEASUREMENT

• Fraction operations
• Decimal operations
• Angles
• Cartesian coordinates
• Ya

STRUCTURES & FORCES

• Designing and building for nastiness
• Breaking stuff
• Animal structures - evolution & building
• Aboriginal structures - design over eons
• Outliers

LA

• Deconstructing a sentence
• Hacking a paragraph
• Essay
• Novel Study .. G Book
• Community of Readers

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Propaganda
• Position paper
• Explorers or Invaders

PHYSICAL

• Street games
• Running
• Ball skills
• Movement

STRUCTURES INTRO

natural vs manufactured

Types

• frames
• shell
• hybrid
• Hybid

function

• breaking, hiding, holding
• asthetics
• Blocking, insulating

forces

• magnitude, direction, location
• newton = force to hold 100g
• external - centre of gravity, symmetry, load
• internal - compression, shear, tension
• designing for forces - see virtual lab

stress

• failure - shear pin
• deformation - bumper

materials

• composite - reinforced concrete
• layered - skis
• woven - kevlar

JOINTS/BONDS

• ball and socket
• hinge
• Friction or chemical

FULL ACCOUNTING DESIGN

• climate, terrain
• use - need and want
• environmental
• safety issues
• cost

HAND OUT THE SKULLS