Posted on November 11, 2008 by mstdesign
Today’s Targets
- Outline and detail your focus for the next 6 weeks (with consideration for the entire year)
- Establish agreement of how you will work together to accomplish the objectives of M/S/T
- Determine pre and post tests for integrated units.
Notes from intro
How has Tech supported Math?
- Scale drawings-using 1/4″ graph on an image then scaling up to a 1″ grid
- World in Motion cars – rate of speed, gears, ratios
- Pattern development of scale house layout
- volume and area with packaging of chocolate bars and using ProD or Pro E to model
Sustainability
Green School
Common Assessments
Use your mobile phone as an enviromental sensor and participate to a shared undertanding of the noise pollution issue
We have a job to show students the connections with M/S/T
Integrated teams-overcoming student expectations of doing
STEM Academy at Levey Middle School 6th grade
Math Concepts that kids struggle with:
- fractions
- geometric solids
- 2-D, 3-D representations
- area, perimeter, volume
After Lunch Discussion
- West Middle School – co-ordinate planes. Plan out a maze based on x-y coordinates then switch classes. Use cardboard to make the maze and cover it up then let another group try to figure it out.
- East Hills – packaging unit final touches. Trebuchet – planning. Using a simulation game to see how different variables affect the launch angle etc.
- Walnut Creek -Difficult to coordinate schedules (common issue). Cross grade teams, tech students in seventh grade mentoring and consulting with 6th graders who are building catapults-math calculations, graphing, trajectory.
- Smart-finding ways to reuse waste generated at our school to make functional objects; scale modeling; green design; packaging; wrapping
- Brandon- getting new modules, vocabulary matching
- Muskegon – weather and climate unit, graphing trends, topo maps, etc. Starting and after school technology program with an emphasis on renewable energy, GEARS program, robotics
- Banks- Changing surface of the Earth – topography, map reading, charts, symbols, gps tracking, treasure hunt development
- Levey – Southfield. overcoming logistic hurdles
- Bloomfield Hills - overcoming logistic hurdles; working for MYP status as an international bacc. program which requires a technology component for each student. Integrating green design and making a scale model.
Washtenaw County Jail – working toward sustainability by re-using all waste
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by mstdesign
Posted on September 30, 2008 by gsartor
This is an integrated unti from Tim Kelley in Bloomfield.
packaging-unit-92308
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Posted on September 30, 2008 by gsartor
Quick Ideas from the first meeting of 2008-2009
Integrated STEM through Design Thinking
Importance of Design and Technological Learning Opportunities
- coordination of curriculum
- articulated instruction
- programming that integrates lessons from science, technology, engineering, and mathematics so that lessons are deliberately aligned around a common purpose.
Learning Cycle – IMAST
- Explore (no or no direction)
- Getting the Idea (direct instruction)
- Applying the Idea
- Expanding the Idea
Sustainability
the engineering challenge of the future
MYP - Middle Years Program is driving some good things at some member districts.
From the International Bacc. Website
This course is essentially concerned with solving problems in an effort to stimulate students’ ingenuity and to encourage them to combine intellectual talents and practical skills.
Schools are granted flexibility in the choice of technology subjects, but each course provides a balance between three key areas:
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- systems
- information
- materials.
In particular, students are encouraged to display ingenuity and creativity in devising practical solutions to given tasks. Students use the design cycle to:
Newspaper Geodesic Domes
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by mstdesign
May 6th offered the opportunity for a show and tell with L. Brooks Patterson, Oakland County Exeutive.
Big Ideas: In planning for our future-
- develop 6 or more themes that we can ask for support from the county as offered by our visitor, L.Brooks Patterson. www.emergingsectors.org
sustainability, “smart” materials, biotechnology, renewable energy, green architecture
- Focus on a hands on session, maybe a split day with debriefing after lunch at the OSMST center after a morning at one or more lab settings making things.
- determine dates for meetings
- grant writing
- guest speakers from the emerging sectors
- PTC ProEngineer/windchill
EcoTech
Abu Dhabi Carbon Neutral City
Wii Hack for interactive whiteboard
The Story of Stuff
Calculate your carbon footprint! Consumer Consequences is an interactive game designed to illustrate the impact of our lifestyles on the Earth.
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Posted on May 6, 2008 by mstdesign
This is the way that you can embed a file in theblog
Go to “write a post” and “Add media” at the top
Browse for your file and follow instructions and it will appar as a link like this.
Energy Jammers Rubric
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by gsartor
It sort of looks the same to me as when I am logged on as an administrator but I don’t have the ability to change things about the site itself. I just tried to include a picture with this post but I need the url to do that….things that make you go hmm….
Oh, now I see that instead of the ability to publish this post directly, I have to “submit for review” which presumably means that me, as blog administrator, will have to accept postings made by contributors. Maybe I will change you all to “authors” and then you can post directly. The point of doing a blog instead of a website was that no one of us would have to maintain anything and we could all post freely.
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Posted on April 15, 2008 by mstdesign
Design and technological studies is the dimension of school that involves an integration of processes, concepts, academic knowledge and skills, by connecting learning through design to the world beyond the classroom. Design and technological studies provides exciting experiences that students view as meaningful.
For assistance with program development:
· Curriculum
· Instruction
· Program review and alignment with the Standards for Technological
Literacy:Content for the Study of Technology
Contact Jeff Bush
Design and Technological Studies
Curriculum and Instruction Consultant
248.209.2376
jeff.bush@oakland.k12.mi.us
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Posted on March 18, 2008 by mstdesign
A great video clip on the design and development of athletic wheel chairs. Part of Wired Science from PBS
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/140-hot_wheels.html
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Posted on March 13, 2008 by mstdesign
As administrator of this blog, I will invite you each to join as a “contributor”. Once you have signed in as a contributor, you will be able to upload files etc.
Thanks for participating!
Gina Sartor
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