Friday, Aug. 7 Describe at least one way you can connect your summer internship experience to your classroom curriculum. Also, share and respond to at least three posts.
I will be presenting a Problem Solvers Magnet Elective for the first time. This is the ideal format to share the nanotechnology information from my internship. Students will learn about the Engineering Design Process, the One-Health Initiative and Arduino computer programming in the first few weeks of school. They will use this information to create a wearable device in the elective.Teams, comprising of my elective students, and afterschool Engineers Club will be entered in the One-Health challenge in the spring. I will use the format offered by my mentor, Dr. Jur to introduce these concepts. Ben Gillespie, our computer code instructor, will also visit in early September to teach my students Arduino Code after some preparation from me.
My core classes will use the use the TI Sensor Tags to collect data during the Weather Unit and the Motion and Forces Unit as they determine how it will work best with their projects. I love the idea of students experimenting with devices and gathering data to share with their classmates and others in our school community, parents and Kenan Program. Students will gain knowledge of these devices as I present my lesson plan.
What I hope to achieve most is to teach students the Engineering Design process to encourage them to create their own experiments and work through the steps to solve their own problems. I think that this will stimulate analytical thinking skills and collaboration among their peers as they solve problems.
Keep us posted on your students as they adopt the engineering design process and begin to add more and more problem solving to their work.