Unit Title: Medieval Quest Grade Level: 8th Grade
Course Title: 8th Grade Industrial Technology Time Allotment: 2 Weeks
Unit Focus Question: How did craftsmen and artisans improve quality of life in the middle ages?
Course Focus Question(s): What was the function of the carpenters and the craftsmen in the medieval era?

Standards/Benchmarks

Activities/Assessments

Key Concepts

Instructional Resources

Working in Groups

Problem Solving

Using Measurements

Applies skills - reading, writing, speaking, listening

Select and use appropriate tools and technology resources to accomplish a variety of tasks and solve problems.

Research and evaluate the accuracy, relevance, appropriateness, comprehensiveness, and bias of electronic information sources concerning real-world problems.

Demonstrate the ability to combine ideas or information in new ways, make connections between seemingly unrelated ideas, and organize and present information in formats such as symbols, pictures, schematics, charts, and graphs.

Display personal qualities such as responsibility, self-management, ethical behavior, and respect for self and others.

Understand complex systems, including social and technical systems, and work with a variety of technologies.

 Students will:

-Work in small group.
-Delegate jobs.
-Read trebuchet drawing, measure and cut material to desired size.
-Use stationery and portable tools.
-Understanding methods of construction/assembly.
-Determine what method to secure arm is best for their trebuchet.
-Work in a safe environment.
-Successfully load and launch trebuchet.
-evaluate one's self and project objectively.

 Students will be able to decide what kinds of materials were/are used.
What kinds of tool technology were/are used.
What methods of assembly were used.
How to adjust/determine counter weight amount.
How centrifugal force is used to launch object.
Difference in types of levers and which one does the trebuchet use.		 "Secrets of Lost Empires II - Medieval Siege" video from NOVA

Internet research