Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?
one possibility would be to not attempt to teach physics but to make a game good for introduction and also for teamwork see http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/physics-games-screenshots_14.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/physics-games-screenshots_14.htmlthinking of extending to making a video of the game as per your suggestion here Caroline On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Physics is so cool! One of the students today did a really great job with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nseWyxaN6g Does anyone have an idea for a 1 hour or so lesson I could do with Physics that would teach a Physics concept and still be incredibly engaging? -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:17, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was we need more data from the field Well, I also understood that you said that it wasn't obvious enough. Which surprised me after all the noise lately about getting feedback. Anyway, I'm seeing feedback coming right now and also efforts to organize feedback gathering. So, let's do it! Regards, Tomeu I am in no way blaming anyone for not getting feedback, on the contrary, I am frustrated that the calls for feediback are not being heard enoguh, and I am well aware of people's efforts to try and get this feedback. What I am saying is that the feedback is not coming through does this make sense? Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing it? regards, David On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:51, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a larger scale in the third world. Ok, but will give some other interesting information, or not at all? And its important to acknowledge the differences between these, which Christoph listed quite concretely. And isn't this stating the obvious? I think what may not have come across obviously enough was that we need way more data from the field, in places where Sugar is being used on a large scale, and this data is just not getting to us. I for one, would love to have some cold hard facts about Sugar as used in South America and Africa. I'm quite appalled by this, you don't read the mailing lists where we make regular calls for feedback? Short from taking a plane and visiting school by school, I don't see what else I can do to get that feedback. You understand Spanish, search the olpc-sur mailing list for posts by Walter and me and tell here again if we don't ask for feedback. It's really frustrating that we are here spending our savings and time on this project, and not only the people deploying our software don't want to talk to us despite our requests, but other people still think we don't want to know about them. Frustratedly yours, Tomeu kind Regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfere0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Sean DALY schrieb: IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to all teachers and Learners. The observations and take-aways need to be triaged of course, starting with what can/should be done by Sugar Labs, but I am convinced many learnings will benefit large deployments. Until reliable means of sharing experiences and feedback (polls, questionnaires, council of deployers, etc.) can be put in place, microscopic study of a classroom using Sugar is well worth the effort, in particular for revealing blockers. I'm not sure I really agree with this statement... Christoph please keep the dramatic headlines to olpcnews. In the above paragraph, Walter notes that many lessons can be learned from controlled environments which can then be applied to larger scaled, less controlled environments. Please note, this does not _exclude_ anyone from providing feedback from large scale deployments. Nor does it _prevent_ anyone from creating small scale deployments anywhere in the world. _all_ it states is that it is often cost effective to start small and grow as lessons have been learned. And yes, Christoph I _am_ holding your writing to a higher standard. Several times, you have described yourself as the voice of the project. david Extrapolating the data and drawing conclusions based on observations in a trial that represents less than 0,01% of all current Sugar installations is a risky endeavor at best and a serious mistake at worst. Even more so when the environment between the trial (in this case GPA) and the global deployments really couldn't be more different in just about every way imaginable (SoaS vs. XO, summer classes vs. regular year-long classes, Boston connectivity vs. Rwanda connectivity, 25 installations in a school vs. 1000 installations in a school, US power infrastructure vs. Nepali power infrastructure, having a team consisting of Walter / Greg / Caroline supporting the efforts vs. being lucky to maybe have a single person who has used a computer before, 25 pupils in a classroom vs. 80 pupils in a classroom, users that were raised in urban North America vs. users who don't have electricity at home, and I could go on...). Yes, some of
Re: [IAEP] Yet more feedback from Boston! - Chat and Speak
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 02:28, Caroline Meekscarol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Neither wind nor rain nor flaming emails will deter me from telling you about what happened with kids and Sugar today in Boston! You however are free to use your delete key at any time. Today, working with 6th grade students at the Museum of Science Computer Clubhouse I learned not to start a Sugar intro session with chat. It was hard for us to believe but the kids spent 3 hours really wanting to do nothing but use chat to talk to other kids in the same room!! We did get them to use other things but next time I will end with Chat, not start with it :) We used both Chat and Speak. Chat was more robust. I suggest that Speak be limited to about 4 participants. It seemed die a lot and if someone typed a lot of garbdy gook it would try to say it all and get behind. What do other people think of this idea? Should I ticket it? Think so, we have had some discussion lately about this. I started the lesson by creating a chat, sharing it and showing the students how to join from their neighborhood. That worked fairly well. However, some of the students wanted to create a private chat. It could be done but it was very challenging workflow. The problem is if two kids decide they want to chat the natural thing for them to do is both goto Home and click on Chat and share that with the neighborhood. This results in two chats and much confusion. I don't know how to solve this, as I'm not gifted at UI design, but its clearly a problem. Perhaps when you start chat you have a UI inside of chat that lets you join other existing chats directly. Even if we have the discussion in the mailing list, would be nice to have a ticket about this as well. Thanks! Tomeu -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David Farning ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] community support
http://getsatisfaction.com/sugarlabs is getting some questions from users. If you are interest in community support, here is your chance:) david ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)
Ok, I think what's happening here is a breakdown in communication. When I used the term obvious, I was talking about Christoph's email... I was stating that perhaps the message, as I understood it, was that we need more data from the field... and that _the message_ was not obvious enough in the email. I never meant that the feedback was not obvious enough... or that developers were not doing enough to keep us informed. I really hope this makes sense. I'm a little concerned that I have to be so careful about wording. I sort of get the feeling that should one make any type of constructive criticism, this is immediately construed as a threat, and the person writing the criticism is forced to walk on egg shells. I understand that talking about what can be done better, or what should have been done that wasnt, etc causes very emotional responses because of the time people have given to the project, but should we really just shut up about this stuff? Or is there value to hearing people's opinions on how things could be improved? And on that note, I'd like to hear how I can improve gathering feedback for our Autonomous region, based on methods currently in place elsewhere. What I'm asking for is links to documentation that show how this has been done till now in South America, Nepal and Asia, Africa, Europe. I've looked around, but there is not too much information on the web. My idea is to try and automate this as much as possible by creating a set of scripts, or plugins that can measure stats and then send these (probably via xmpp) Someone mentioned munin, but this doesn't really give user statistics much though... its more of a network tool for servers for measuring performance, resource usage, and graphing these. What I am talking about is digitising the current manual feedback that is happening elsewhere (how many users running which apps, lesson plans being used, languages, how many computers requiring repairs, general problems people are running into, and generally people's feelings on sugar usage, maybe even surveys) kind regards, David Van Assche On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:17, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was we need more data from the field Well, I also understood that you said that it wasn't obvious enough. Which surprised me after all the noise lately about getting feedback. Anyway, I'm seeing feedback coming right now and also efforts to organize feedback gathering. So, let's do it! Regards, Tomeu I am in no way blaming anyone for not getting feedback, on the contrary, I am frustrated that the calls for feediback are not being heard enoguh, and I am well aware of people's efforts to try and get this feedback. What I am saying is that the feedback is not coming through does this make sense? Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing it? regards, David On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:51, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a larger scale in the third world. Ok, but will give some other interesting information, or not at all? And its important to acknowledge the differences between these, which Christoph listed quite concretely. And isn't this stating the obvious? I think what may not have come across obviously enough was that we need way more data from the field, in places where Sugar is being used on a large scale, and this data is just not getting to us. I for one, would love to have some cold hard facts about Sugar as used in South America and Africa. I'm quite appalled by this, you don't read the mailing lists where we make regular calls for feedback? Short from taking a plane and visiting school by school, I don't see what else I can do to get that feedback. You understand Spanish, search the olpc-sur mailing list for posts by Walter and me and tell here again if we don't ask for feedback. It's really frustrating that we are here spending our savings and time on this project, and not only the people deploying our software don't want to talk to us despite our requests, but other people still think we don't want to know about them. Frustratedly yours, Tomeu kind Regards, David Van Assche On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:21 PM, David Farning dfarn...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Christoph Derndorfere0425...@student.tuwien.ac.at wrote: Sean DALY schrieb: IMHO, close study of small deployments makes them incredibly useful to
Re: [IAEP] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 17:12, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, I think what's happening here is a breakdown in communication. When I used the term obvious, I was talking about Christoph's email... I was stating that perhaps the message, as I understood it, was that we need more data from the field... and that _the message_ was not obvious enough in the email. I never meant that the feedback was not obvious enough... or that developers were not doing enough to keep us informed. Ok, I'm sorry about that. The thread was about feedback from GPA not being relevant for the 99.99% of Sugar users, in case that helps explain my reply. I really hope this makes sense. I'm a little concerned that I have to be so careful about wording. I sort of get the feeling that should one make any type of constructive criticism, this is immediately construed as a threat, and the person writing the criticism is forced to walk on egg shells. I understand that talking about what can be done better, or what should have been done that wasnt, etc causes very emotional responses because of the time people have given to the project, but should we really just shut up about this stuff? Or is there value to hearing people's opinions on how things could be improved? I think you are right in that criticism is very important and I didn't welcomed it properly, hope to improve on this. And on that note, I'd like to hear how I can improve gathering feedback for our Autonomous region, based on methods currently in place elsewhere. What I'm asking for is links to documentation that show how this has been done till now in South America, Nepal and Asia, Africa, Europe. I've looked around, but there is not too much information on the web. My idea is to try and automate this as much as possible by creating a set of scripts, or plugins that can measure stats and then send these (probably via xmpp) Someone mentioned munin, but this doesn't really give user statistics much though... its more of a network tool for servers for measuring performance, resource usage, and graphing these. What I am talking about is digitising the current manual feedback that is happening elsewhere (how many users running which apps, lesson plans being used, languages, how many computers requiring repairs, general problems people are running into, and generally people's feelings on sugar usage, maybe even surveys) I would start by listing the kind of parameters for which we could use quantitative data, then think about how we could gather it. I remember an interesting thread in olpc-sur about assessment of the plan ceibal, may be interesting to ask there for opinions. Regards, Tomeu kind regards, David Van Assche On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 20:17, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying... all I said was we need more data from the field Well, I also understood that you said that it wasn't obvious enough. Which surprised me after all the noise lately about getting feedback. Anyway, I'm seeing feedback coming right now and also efforts to organize feedback gathering. So, let's do it! Regards, Tomeu I am in no way blaming anyone for not getting feedback, on the contrary, I am frustrated that the calls for feediback are not being heard enoguh, and I am well aware of people's efforts to try and get this feedback. What I am saying is that the feedback is not coming through does this make sense? Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing it? regards, David On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Tomeu Vizoso to...@sugarlabs.org wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 15:51, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: H... I have to agree with Christoph here. I didn't really see it as being dramatic at all, but quite factual in fact. The western small deployments really don't give us any useful stats on what is happening on a larger scale in the third world. Ok, but will give some other interesting information, or not at all? And its important to acknowledge the differences between these, which Christoph listed quite concretely. And isn't this stating the obvious? I think what may not have come across obviously enough was that we need way more data from the field, in places where Sugar is being used on a large scale, and this data is just not getting to us. I for one, would love to have some cold hard facts about Sugar as used in South America and Africa. I'm quite appalled by this, you don't read the mailing lists where we make regular calls for feedback? Short from taking a plane and visiting school by school, I don't see what else I can do to get that feedback. You understand Spanish, search the olpc-sur mailing list for posts by Walter and
[IAEP] IN 5 MIN: Contributors Program Mtg! (Fri 2PM Boston time, #olpc-meeting)
Please join us in 5min reviewing the latest OLPC/Sugar community projects over IRC Live Chat: (2PM EDT Boston Time Friday) http://forum.laptop.org/chat Then type at bottom: /join #olpc-meeting AGENDA: * New projects libraries -- teaching them Community Outreach: http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects#XO_Laptop_Lending_Libraries * Which projects might you enjoy Mentoring?! http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Projects http://rt.laptop.org/Search/Results.html?Query=Queue=%27contributors%27 * Fast Review of the 3 latest (greatest!) HW/Project Proposals -- please join us advocating for and/or reviewing shortcomings of these proposals: 1. Waadookodaading OLPC/Ojibwe Laptop Library - Wisconsin, USA http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45715 http://www.waadookodaading.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=49Itemid=31 Requests 10 XO's over 9+ months Project Objectives: Provide Children in grades K - 5 with computers they can check out and take home with them. These activities could be monitored by the check out procedures themselves. 2. MMEduGamePack Project - Brazil http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45775 http://www.mmeduproject.org (upcoming) http://sourceforge.net (to be announced) Requests 4 XO's over 15 months Project Objectives: 1 - Integrate SDL and OpenCV to provide a multimodal interface using the laptop integrated video camera. 2 - Build a multimodal SDL library for basic multimodal input routines. 3 - Create a parser to generate SDL or PyGame source code (C++ or Python). 4 - Develop a package of Multimodal Educational Mini Games (initially, 4 games). 5 - Simplify the design process for game developers. 6 - Simplify and expand user interaction using a multimodal interface 7 - Give to the poor children a chance to interact with multimodal educational games using XO machines. 3. OLPC Bayern Library - Munich/Munchen, Germany (SECONDARY REVIEW WITH REPAIR SHOP, after last week's conditional approval) http://rt.laptop.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=45454 http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OLPC_Bayern (NEEDS REVISING) Requests 15 XO's over 18 months Project Objectives: Translate the english manuals into a German/understandable version. Examine the look and feel of the laptop and how to provide more useful online help on the laptop for the different target groups (eg. developer, child, teacher, other people...) Test the help and search for improve potential The idea of OLPC is good. To see what potential is possible in technical writer environment we will look on the system and seek to write useful help text for user. ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Google logo, Aug 14 Hans Christian Ørsted
http://www.google.com/logos/ Compare Jul 10, 2009 Birthday of Nikola Tesla - (Global) -- Silent Thunder (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) is my name And Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, The Truth my destination. http://earthtreasury.org/worknet (Edward Mokurai Cherlin) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] Request for new features for Measure
Hello, I have been working with the Measure activity for a while now, using some un-expensive sensors (humidity, temperature, light, magnet, etc), which can be connected to the Mic port. I would like to get two other features added to measure. 1) Invert the curve of the reading of sensor: Some of the resistive sensors are Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC), which means that the value decrease in resistance when subjected to an increase in temperature, humidity, etc. If teachers are working with young children, the value may not be as important as the effect of the value rising at higher temp, humidity, etc. 2) feedback when recording: While recording sensor value, there is no feedback on the values that get recorded, and I often get questions from teachers regarding this.. they asked me how they know that the values that are saved into the .txt file are the values they see in Measure as they never saw such values while playing with the sensors. Please send me any questions... I hope these are things easy to implement. I will be happy to give you some feedback and show you some of the learning activities I have developed. Thanks! Claudia ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Request for new features for Measure
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Claudia Urreaclau...@laptop.org wrote: Hello, I have been working with the Measure activity for a while now, using some un-expensive sensors (humidity, temperature, light, magnet, etc), which can be connected to the Mic port. I would like to get two other features added to measure. I'll add tickets for these. 1) Invert the curve of the reading of sensor: Some of the resistive sensors are Negative Temperature Coefficient (NTC), which means that the value decrease in resistance when subjected to an increase in temperature, humidity, etc. If teachers are working with young children, the value may not be as important as the effect of the value rising at higher temp, humidity, etc. Shouldn't be too difficult to add. 2) feedback when recording: While recording sensor value, there is no feedback on the values that get recorded, and I often get questions from teachers regarding this.. they asked me how they know that the values that are saved into the .txt file are the values they see in Measure as they never saw such values while playing with the sensors. What sort of feedback do you mean? Is not the real-time display of the data feedback? Or is it simply that they want reassurance that the data is actually being recorded? Please send me any questions... I hope these are things easy to implement. I will be happy to give you some feedback and show you some of the learning activities I have developed. Thanks! Claudia ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -walter -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
[IAEP] New sugar meeting channel in Spanish
Hi, Thinking about how to involve more Spanish speakers into IRC meetings, it's available a transbot between #sugar-meeting and the new #sugar-reunion channels. Spanish users can join #sugar-reunion and all sentences will be translated to english into #sugar-meeting channel and vice versa. Documentation in spanish http://co.sugarlabs.org/go/Transbot -- María del Pilar Sáenz Fundación Sugar Labs Colombia http://co.sugarlabs.org ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] [Sugar-devel] GPA ain't the world (was: [Sugar-news] Sugar Digest 2009-08-11)
On Thu, 2009-08-13 at 15:06 -0400, Walter Bender wrote: On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 2:17 PM, David Van Asschedvanass...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Or are you saying the feedback is getting through and I'm just not seeing it? We all seem to agree that feedback is important. We mostly agree that there is value in feedback from all deployments, big and small. We are currently getting valuable feedback from the field: Sur, the Ceibal blogs, reports from Nepal, Greg's reports from GPA, et al. We need more feedback and therefore we are exploring additional means of getting it. You ideas are welcome! Perhaps a section in Sugar Digest with links to highlights of what went on in deployments during the week? Wearing a deployer-hat I must confess that we could (Paraguayan Deployment Team) do a better job filing tickets, giving feedback, etc. Will try to keep discipline from now on :-) ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?
I might try these next week and see how they go: does altering the size of an object affect its drop time? does joining objects together (large and small) affect drop time? does altering the length of a pendulum affect its swing time? before doing the above say what you think will happen after doing the above say whether you think the physics program reflects real world behaviour (possibility of follow up real world experiments here) design a catapult system to accurately hit (a) stationary distant target (b) moving target (c) close target build a complex or elegant building that doesn't fall down other ideas along these lines? *extra features I would like to see in physic*s: copy shapes move them while in setup mode a timer *icons*: I think it would be better if the polygon icon looked like an irregular shape rather than a regular hexagon btw if there was a regular hexagon then you could use it to do some work with tessellations in setup mode using the triangle, square, hexagon - if you had the move feature in setup mode eg. make a tessellation in setup mode and then support it so it doesn't fall apart under gravity On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 11:40 PM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Yes, I think thats a good idea. Also maybe its engineering principals not Physics that should be the learning objectives. What I'm realizing is that really I'm giving demos to teachers about h0w to use Sugar to support learning. So what I want is a bunch of lessons using various different activities that are clearly aligned with any common curriculum objective. For Physics I think I want a really simple challenge that I can demo then have students solve it fairly quickly. then I want a couple levels of additional challenge where students can solve problems in different ways. On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:47 AM, Bill Kerr billk...@gmail.com wrote: one possibility would be to not attempt to teach physics but to make a game good for introduction and also for teamwork see http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/wow-factor-physics.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/physics-games-screenshots_14.html http://xo-whs2009.blogspot.com/2009/08/physics-games-screenshots_14.htmlthinking of extending to making a video of the game as per your suggestion here Caroline On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:33 AM, Caroline Meeks carol...@solutiongrove.com wrote: Physics is so cool! One of the students today did a really great job with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nseWyxaN6g Does anyone have an idea for a 1 hour or so lesson I could do with Physics that would teach a Physics concept and still be incredibly engaging? -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove carol...@solutiongrove.com 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
Re: [IAEP] Physics - Lesson plans ideas?
On Friday 14 Aug 2009 7:40:30 pm Caroline Meeks wrote: For Physics I think I want a really simple challenge that I can demo then have students solve it fairly quickly. then I want a couple levels of additional challenge where students can solve problems in different ways. For best results, pick something from the students' immediate environment and get them to analyze it in detail. The fun is in creating models of real-life events and predicting their behavior under changes. Often times, getting a 'false' answer reveals more than getting the 'right' answer so I wouldn't aim for a quick solution. See http://sikshana.blogspot.com/2008/09/magic-straw-of-kallahalli.html It could be a bouncing baseball (why do subsequent peaks reduce in size. Is there a pattern in reduction?), building a pile of books (staircase style), why does it collapse? play of light on shadows, motion of strikers on carrom coins and so on. Subbu ___ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
