Engineers toolkit
Steam History
Famous Scientists
Mr. Langenbahns favorite facts
Letters in STEAM
What are they called
100
This machine uses zeros and ones to function
What is a computer
100
Who was the first man to ever walk on the moon?
Neil Armstrong
100
The legend says an apple falling from a tree inspired this scientist's idea of gravity
Who is isaac newton
100
How many times a day does a human heart beat
1. 1,000
2. 10,000
3. 100,000
4. 1,000,000
5. 10,000,000
100,000
100
SCIENCE:
Plants use this process to turn sunlight and CO2 to energy and O2
Photosynthesis
100
Someone who studies the earth and rocks
Geologist
200
When programming we use what kind of tool to represent our code easily
Flowcharts
200
This artist painted the Mona Lisa and created prototypes of flying machines
Leonardo Da Vinci
200
This scientist famously discovered that E = mc2
He also discovered the new theory of gravity
Albert Einstein
200
Flamingos turn pink because they eat so much of this food
Bonus points if you can tell me what a group of flamingos is called
Shrimp
A flamboyance
200
A person who studies the stars planets and space
An astronomer
300
Pulley
300
In 1903 these brothers made the first powered airplane flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina
Bonus points: where were they from
The write brothers
300
First woman to win a nobel prize, for her work in radioactivity
Madam Marie Curie
300
What are older sharks or trees?
Sharks
300
Math:
This famous number 3.1415926535 is called what?
Bonus points if you can tell me its last digit
What is Pi
Trick question...it never ends
300
A person who studies the weather and predicts it
A meteorologist
400
A wheel is a simple machine.
It is also made up of many of what simple machines.
Lever
400
For a long time, humans did not use the number 0 in their math. Where was the concept of 0 first thought of?
India in 500CE
400
This man developed the first theory of evolution on a trip to the Galapagos
Charles Darwin
400
Which of these animal pairings are the most closely related to each other?
Human <-> Shark
Human <->Whales
Whales <-> Sharks
Humans <-> Whales
400
Engineering:
Engineers use this shape often because it's the strongest of the 2D simple shapes
What is a triangle
400
A person who studies dinosaurs and fossils
A paleontologist
500
What is a simple machine?
Simple machines change the magnitude (how much) and direction (where it goes) of a force
500
This Greek scientist first described the scientific method
Aristotle
500
She spent decades studying chimpanzees in Tanzania
Jane Goodall
500
Archeologists have discovered what food in sealed jars in Pompeii?
The food was still edible
Honey
500
Art:
Red, green, blue are what kind of colors? We have a specific name for them
Primary colors
500
A person who studies volcanoes
A volcanologist
600
What is the engineering design process
A method to break down problems into smaller chunks, then solving one chunk at a time
600
This person invented the printing press
Johannes Gutenberg
600
This NASA mathematician, featured in Hidden Figures, checked the math for the first Americans trip to space
Katherine Johnson
600
Botanists (people who study plants) classify this yellow fruit as a berry.
What is a banana
600
Technology:
When did humans start using computers?
Around 200BC!
600
A person who studies insects
An entomologist