Discovering Stem At The Amusement Park

Rollercoasters, tilt-a-whirls, games, and colorful lights abound at the amusement park, where STEM subjects come to life on a daily basis. Readers learn how STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, and math—make amusement parks fun and safe, and how these classroom concepts are used to run each part of a park’s operations. This curricula-based text teaches readers to see how concepts learned in the classroom are applied in the real world. Readers are also encouraged to seek STEM careers that could one day land them in some of the happiest places in the world. Fact boxes and colorful images support the information-rich text.

Rollercoasters, tilt-a-whirls, games, and colorful lights abound at the amusement park, where STEM subjects come to life on a daily basis. Readers learn how STEM subjects—science, technology, engineering, and math—make amusement parks fun and safe, and how these classroom concepts are used to run each part of a park’s operations. This curricula-based text teaches readers to see how concepts learned in the classroom are applied in the real world. Readers are also encouraged to seek STEM careers that could one day land them in some of the happiest places in the world. Fact boxes and colorful images support the information-rich text.

It's time to go to the amusement park! Giant rides loom around you, and countless parts are in motion. But many simple machines are at work too. See the Ferris wheel? That's a wheel and axle. Try your luck at skee-ball. You're using an inclined plane. Find out more about the simple machines behind the excitement.

It's time to go to the amusement park! What's at the center of this fun-filled place? Motion! Feel like you were floating for a second on the roller coaster? You can thank g-forces! Did you send the bottles flying after a game-winning throw? That's Newton's first law of motion. Find out more about the science involved in making things go.

"Take a tour of the forces involved in the action at an amusement park and how they work, including contact force, magnetic force, gravity force, centripetal force, friction, and more"--

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What if you could challenge your sixth graders to design an amusement park for children of tomorrow to safely enjoy? With this volume in the STEM Road Map Curriculum Series, you can! Amusement Park of the Future outlines a journey that will steer your students toward authentic problem solving while grounding them in integrated STEM disciplines. The series is designed to meet the growing need to infuse real-world learning into K- 12 classrooms. This book is an interdisciplinary module that uses project- and problem-based learning. Drawing on their previous experience with amusement parks or carnival rides, students will work in teams to do the following: - Connect these experiences with a variety of science and social studies concepts, including energy transfer, ratios and rates, technical texts, multimedia communications, historical inquiry, and the influences of technology on society. - Use mathematics and English language arts to research the background and designs of amusement parks. - Create blueprints of their models, build and test small-scale prototypes, and develop cost-benefit analyses. - Design marketing plans and infomercials to promote their models. The STEM Road Map Curriculum Series is anchored in the Next Generation Science Standards, the Common Core State Standards, and the Framework for 21st Century Learning. In-depth and flexible, Amusement Parks of the Future can be used as a whole unit or in part to meet the needs of districts, schools, and teachers who are charting a course toward an integrated STEM approach.

Zoos are places where STEM comes to life, including the science of caring for animals, the technology used in zoo security, engineering that keeps habitats habitable, and the math used to calculate ticket sales. Readers are encouraged to draw connections between the STEM subjects they learn in school and the way STEM is used in the real world. This curricula-driven text uses high-interest subjects to discuss STEM and also covers the STEM careers that help zoos around the world run successfully. Fact boxes and colorful images provide opportunities for additional learning.