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RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-05-01T00:57:19Z

I love Ender'S Game book and I reread it after 20 years.
Activities
1-What is imponderability?
The students will watch parts of the Ender’s game movie about imponderability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0Pf-sevOc0
What is imponderability? Fun in space and life on international space stations
Some other video resources
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBQNn0prRpw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhuMfo321RQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhr8NugDMPI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGP6Y0Pnhe4
Imponderable In physics, a thing which has no weight: a term formerly applied to heat, light, electricity, and magnetism, on the supposition that they were material substances, and still used of the hypothetical universal medium, ether.
https://pwayblog.com/2016/04/11/track-design-limits-of-vertical-acceleration/

Activity 2
Create a multiplayer game to fight with your spaceships against the enemie!
Depending on students age different software may be used: Scratch and Alice for the little ones, Unity for those who know to code and want to create their own characters, objects and backgrounds.
The students will create their own games and test with the other colleagues.
Activity 3
Bullying at school
The students will read chapters 1 and 5 from Ender's Game book.There are a lot of agressive behaviors in the book and Ender is a 6 old year boy and he must be tough.
I think the students will identify those behaviors and we could discuss about bullying in our school, how to limit it and how to get help with.
https://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-05-01T00:13:21Z

Activity 1- Cosmological theories
The groups (3 students in a group) will research information and create Google Slides presentations on Cosmological theories for different periods (B.C., A.C. including the 16 th century, 17th and 18 th centuries, 19th and 20th centuries, nowadays). Infographics with the most important scientist and their theories will be created too.Resources: http://www.physicsoftheuniverse.com/cosmological.html and the first chapter of Stephen Hawking’s book

Activity 2- Distance calculator
The groups will continue the research to find how the distance between planets are calculated. Each group will create a sheet in Google Sheets and will calculate the mean distance from Sun to our system’s planets , the distance from Earth to other planets and nearest star(Proxima Centauri) in AU, light years , km , miles and Parsec. Automatic conversions will be made between astronomical distance units and charts will be created.More about how distances are measured in Astronomy http://www.telescope.org/nuffield_21_sci/astrounits.htm

Activity 3- Big Bang and Big Crunch
A Padlet will be created by the teacher and all students will add information about these theories (videos, documents, links, pictures).Resources:https://www.universetoday.com/37018/big-crunch/https://science.nasa.gov/astrophysics/focus-areas/what-powered-the-big-bang

Activity 4-Stories about remarkable scientists
Students, two by two, will research different stories and jokes about scientists and they will create short presentations. There are some examples in the end of Stephen Hawking’s book and I think that they will be engage to discover the men/women behind the theories and formulas.
Students age- 16-19

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T23:01:55Z

Activity 1 (6 hours)
The students will work in groups of 3 on the next topics
-Robots: early beginnings
-Robots in the 19 th century
-Robots in the 20 th century
-Robots nowadays
-Robots in the space
-Industrial robots
-Humanoid robots
-Robots in literature
-Robots in movies

Each group will make researches on the topic and will create a Padlet which will contain different informations including the documents and presentations they created, videos and links for this subjects. Posters and infographics will be created too. For better results in collaboration the students will use GoogleDocs.The groups will present their work in front of the classroom.Each group will create a quiz in Google Forms and all the students will answer the questions . The teacher will create an evaluation form and each group will be grading others groups work.

Activity 2 (2 hours)

Starting from the 3 laws of robotics formulated by Asimov and the Tedex video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KaGZhB0WkI students will debate about the future of robots and if we should be afraid by robots evolution.

Practical activity (12 hours)
The students will create a robotic hand https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLxWBVZ25rk using the Microsoft Education lesson plan https://onedrive.live.com/view.aspx?resid=D1EAAFC0BDFA320E!1171&ithint=onenote%2c&app=OneNote&authkey=!AByHJXUeyR8LDRM . We have the list with the materials needed ,too (https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/education/education-workshop/january.aspx) .

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T21:49:26Z

I read this book for the first time and I think it could be easily read and understand by students beginning from 6th grade. The number devil explain in a fun and informal way a lot of Maths concepts and I think that will engage children.Because I teach Informatics I will suggest some activities based on the book which are related to the subject I teach: prime numbers, triangular numbers , Fibonacci numbers.The students will write the algorithms and code in a programming language for the next requirements:

Giving a number a (a>1) find the prime numbers in the interval [a, 2*a]
Write the number a read from the keyboard (a>5) as a sum of prime numbers: if the number is even it will be the sum of two prime numbers and if the number is odd it will be the sum of 3 prime numbers.
Write in the file sum_prime.out the prime numbers used to decompose each number from the number.in file . These 3 requirements are based on the third night discussions that Robert had with the Number Devil.
Write all triangular numbers in the interval [a,b].
Write each number from the file number.in as a sum of triangular numbers . Requirements based on the 5th night discussions.

6. How many rabbits will be at the x hour rabbit's clock (take care that you will deal with a lot of rabbits so x must be a little number). The students are previous informed by Fibonacci sequence and the story with the rabbits as in the sixth night. This is a short and funny chapter so it's better if students will read it by themselves and the teacher will clear the misunderstandings.
7. Calculate the factorial of a number x read from the keyboard.

8. For each number from the number.in file write it's factorial in the factorial.out number. (Take care which number will be in the number.in file as the factorial numbers are bigger and bigger as you observed in the 8th night meeting with the Number Devil).

For ICT classes I'd like students to create presentations about remarkable mathematicians as seen by Robert in the 12 th night (Teplotaxl, Lord Russell,Euler, Fibonacci...) and of course in the end they will create a diploma for a Maths apprentice.

RE: Share your classroom ideas here

2017-04-30T20:24:21Z

The activities are based on the chapter 9 Recover Petroleum Engineering from Janice's VanCleave book.

Activity 1

Individually the students will search on the Internet the topic: What is the petroleum used for?
A Padlet will be created by the teacher and the students will complete with the examples they find (links, pictures or videos about petroleum and petroleum products).

Activity 2

Students will watch together the video with the experiment Mixing Oil & Water Science Experiment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=neS6Tm_HXKE ) and after that will try to answer the questions in the video.

Activity3
The teacher will explain the miscibility and density notions using the Tedex lesson http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-oil-and-water-mix-john-pollard#watch (the video has aRomanian subtitle too) and some other videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6aoJNqt1MQ (Oil and water mixed in slow motion), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AwUeeBMcRk (SchoolFreeware Science Video 5 - Density of Salt Water, Fresh Water And Oil) and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z50jEi1igNQ (Denser Than You Think - Science Experiment).

Activity4
The students will try to answer the questions in the Think part of the Tedex lesson http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-oil-and-water-mix-john-pollard#review

Teacher will help with additional questions (the exercises in Janice's vanCleave book) and an extra activity in the Dig Deeper section of the Tedex lesson (Additional Resources for you to Explore) http://ed.ted.com/lessons/why-don-t-oil-and-water-mix-john-pollard#digdeeper

Homework
Groups of 3 students will be formed and they will have to try the experiment at home and they will film the experiment trying to explain the results.
A report on the experiment will be written by every group using the structure that Janice VanCleave suggests in Guide to the Best Science Fair Projects: Introduction, Experiment, Discussion, Conclusion, Acknowledgements and References.

RE: Welcome

2017-04-30T18:47:24Z

Hello,
I teach ICT and Informatics at the Technical College Latcu Voda in Siret, Romania. I like reading but it is the first time that I will create some activities for my students going from literature books. Some of the books for the competition aren't translated in Romanian yet and a lot of the Scientix colleagues presented as very interesting so I' ll try to read them later in English.