Notes from Nov 11 Meeting
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
Scale Up with GEARS EDUCATIONAL
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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