Math Science and Technology Through Design

Notes from Nov 11 Meeting

mstdesign — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 13:59:21 +0000

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

NoiseTube.net

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

Dot Car Lesson

mstdesign — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:11:34 +0000

From Darryl Kettle

Dot Car

Packaging Lesson from Tim Kelley

gsartor — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:54:58 +0000

This is an integrated unti from Tim Kelley in Bloomfield.

packaging-unit-92308

Sept 30th 2008-2009

gsartor — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:39:42 +0000

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:

- 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:

- investigate
- design
- plan
- create
- evaluate.

Society of Automotive Engineers World in Motion

Newspaper Geodesic Domes

Resources from May 6th Meeting

mstdesign — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:12:07 +0000

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.

Embedding files in a blog post

mstdesign — Tue, 06 May 2008 15:30:37 +0000

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

This is me making a post as a contributor

gsartor — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:51:48 +0000

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.

What is design and technological studies anyway?

mstdesign — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:51:16 +0000

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

How Wheels – MST and Wheel Chairs

mstdesign — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:13:14 +0000

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

You will get an invitation to join soon

mstdesign — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:20:04 +0000

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