Academic Musings & Tech for Learning

Building catapults was our culminating activity today. Participants were given some materials, like popsicle sticks, rubber bands, and glue, to build a device to launch a marshmallow. 

We also had a lot of fun visiting the Simple Machine flash interactive at www.edheads.org . For more resources from this workshop, check out the wikipage: http://technoed.wikispaces.com/Science+Journey+Session+3.

 
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Thanks so much for coming – look forward to seeing you for session 4….

Lynne Marie Bailey

Just finishing up another Science Saturday in the Bronx with teachers in the STEM grant. Today we studied hurricanes, reviewed weather basics and constructed simple weather instruments – the results were FAB – anemometers, a thermometer, barometers and more. A number of teachers in the workshop are from St. Elizabeth’s – www.steliznyc.org – and they are a weatherbug school!  Resources and a copy of the powerpoint presentation can be found at http://technoed.wikispaces.com on the Session 2 look.

Once again, I had a great time and can’t wait to see you all again. Many thanks to Steve’s gracious hospitality and the photos.

Today marked my first full-day science workshop in the STEM grant. The topic was “Earthquakes” and there is a separate page with a list of resouces from the seminar. During the workshop we plotted some seismic events, pieced together a puzzle of tectonic plates and built spaghetti/marshmallow towers that withstood a simple shake table. Thank goodness for the WWW! All this and more I put together from online resources.

I want to thank all the teachers that attended for their wonderful enthusiasm and participation. It was a pleasure and honor to work with you today. I really enjoyed the day – hope you did, too. For the PowerPoint presentation I used during the workshop, click on the link Science Session 1: Earthquakes.

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Links for the Internet Resources are on another page of this blog labelled [Quakes] – look for the tabs at the top for additional pages, or links in the sidebar under PAGES.

As it took some time to get all that paperwork done this morning, we missed sharing out our reflections of the day. So please post some comments, reflections and/or ideas here about the material presented today.