“Idea Garden”Open Forum

2011 T.E.E.A.M. Fall Conference

“Changing Content and Practices”

Winters Mill HSWestminster, MD

Friday October 21, 2011

Ruth AkersSollers Point Technical High School

Baltimore County Public Schoolsrakers@bcps.org

Using an open forum, colleagues across Maryland will share instructional strategies that reflect changing content and practices and help students connect with the Technology Education curriculum.

Objective

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What resources would be most helpful to you in developing engaging lessons for your students?

Pre-session Question

Outline

1. Review TEEAM Wiki Procedures

2. Share a few specific projects.3. Audience participation: Share

successful strategies that have worked.

4. Audience survey

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Students need 21st Century SkillsThese skills include, teamwork, critical thinking,

problem solving and good communication. Lesson Content and Practices should reflect what students

need to learn to be successful in the future.

21st Century Skills: The Challenges Ahead Andrew J. Rotherham and Daniel Willingham http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational_leadership/sept09/vol67/num01/21st_Century_Skills@_The_Challenges_Ahead.aspx

Audience Participation

Share Strategies.

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Knowing the Customer

An Important Step in the Engineering Design Process

Special Thanks to Oregon MESA (http://oregonmesa.org/ ) and Portland State University

Foundation (503-725-4665 or e-mail at ormesa@pdx.edu) for their curriculum resources.

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Student Project Solutions Should

Show a real life connection Be an invention to improve peoples lives Be designed with a purpose in mind to

solve an identified problem Be as simple as a re-purpose or re-design

of something for a new function Students MUST get to know the user. This

includes the culture that will be using the product.

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Design for the Other 90%

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises

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http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/

LINK:

Researching Water ResourcesShows students how difficult it is for most of the world

to obtain water. Guinea Worm Video-The Carter Foundation

http://www.imdb.com/video/wab/vi723452953/ (5 minutes)Shows how the people of The Carter Center have dramatically reduced the dreaded guinea worm disease in Africa.

Playpump-OPB Frontline http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/rough/2005/10/south_africa_th.html (8 minutes, 30 seconds)A good story about how a good idea can go bad without the proper empathy and cultural understanding in designing the process.  This is the positive view of the pump.

Playpump-OPB Frontline http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/southernafrica904/video_index.html (23 minutes, 41 seconds)This is the video that breaks down what actually happened

  Well Maintenance in Bouar, Central African Republic-Mercy Corp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79m0wvaRtaM&feature=player_embedded (2 minutes, 11 seconds) Indonesia’s Dirty Water http://www.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2010/03/21/coren.indonesia.river.cnn

(2 minutes, 43 seconds) Women: Agents of Change

Our (Wateraid Charity) new short film shows how women in India are joining forces in formal self-help groups to regenerate their local areas and improve water and sanitation conditions.  By working together they are finding a strong voice changing the health and future of their communities for the better.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UbNT7Wd3zE

Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis (5 minutes, 21 seconds)Good example of common living, slum conditions http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jYr8MFTXrM&feature=player_embedded

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Activities to support awareness of customer/user needs Students use the design process to SCAMPER a 5

gallon bucket of water to it’s destination. Students discuss the problems. Why would this be a problem in a remote or disaster area? Who usually transports water in these situations?

SCAMPER strategy◦ Substitute◦ Combine◦ Adapt◦ Modify◦ Put to other uses◦ Eliminate/Elaborate◦ Rearrange/Reverse

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SCAMPER Substitute What can you substitute? What can be

used instead? Who else instead? What other ingredients? material? process? power? place? approach? sounds? forces? Instead of ___. I can ___

Combine What can you combine or bring together somehow? How about a blend, an alloy, an assortment, an ensemble? Combine units? purposes? appeals? ideas? I can bring together ____ and ___ to ___.

Adapt What can you adapt for use as a solution? What else is like this? What other idea does this suggest? Does past offer a parallel? What could I copy? Who could I emulate? I can adapt ___ in this way ___ to ___.

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SCAMPER Modify Can you change the item in some way?

Change meaning, color, motion, sound, smell, form, shape? Other changes?

Also: Magnify: What can you add? More time? Greater frequency? Stronger? Higher? Longer? Thicker? Extra value? Plus ingredient? Duplicate? Multiply? Exaggerate?

And: 'Minify': What can you remove? Smaller? Condensed? Mini? Lower? Shorter? Lighter? Omit? Streamline? Split up? Understate? I can change ___ in this way ... to ___

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SCAMPER Put to other uses How can you put the thing to

different or other uses? New ways to use as is? if it is modified? I can re‐use ___ in this way __ by___.

Eliminate/Elaborate What can you eliminate? Remove something? Eliminate waste? Reduce time? Reduce effort? Cut costs? And Elaborate What can be expanded or developed more? I can eliminate/elaborate ___ by___.

Rearrange/Reverse What can be rearranged in some way? Interchange components? Other pattern? Other layout? Other sequence? Transpose cause and effect? Change pace? Change schedule? I can rearrange ___ like this __ such that ___.

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STEM Connection IdeaCollaborate with Math, and Science Teachers

at Sollers Point Technical High School

STEM Connection IdeaCollaborate with Math, and Science Teachers

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Resources: Steps of the design process used by the science teachers to introduce an inquiry based activity.1. http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/k12/k12_design_process.jhtml;jsessionid=SUBMDULKJCSKZABAVRS

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Example: S.T.E.M. Project – 1st Quarter Objective: Students will create an apparatus to house their experiment in order to determine how water affects plant growth.

You will create and design your own structure to be able to hold your plants. The structure must be made with materials found around the house. No pre-made structures may be used. The structure needs to have a way for the water from the experiment to drain and be able to reabsorb.

You will create and follow the engineering design flow chart that you have learned in your Technology Education class. The following are internet sites to help with the engineering design flow chart.

http://www.mos.org/eie/engineering_design.php http://www.engineeringpathway.com/ep/k12/k12_design_process.jhtml;jsessionid=SUBMDULKJCSKZ

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Structure Development (“T” and “E” part of S.T.E.M.)

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Experiment Development (“S” part of S.T.E.M.) Once the structure is complete, the experiment may be

started. You should place the plants where they will receive sunlight. All parts of the experiment must be identical except for the variable that is being tested – this includes the structure that was developed. You will follow the steps of the scientific method in writing up their experiment. The following are internet sites to help with the scientific method.

http://www.sciencebuddies.org/science-fair-projects/project_scientific_method.shtml

http://sciencefairproject.virtualave.net/scientific_method.htm

http://www.science-fair-projects-and-more.com/scientific-method-for-kids.html#SMSteps

Experiment Development (“S” part of S.T.E.M.)

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Gather data to help you create a table and graph to: 1) do analytical comparison, 2) justify hypothesis, and 3) provide conclusion and recommendation of the experiment. The data that will be collected from the plant are: number of leaves, number of stems, volume of plant (length, width, and height). See you math teacher to clarify any part of this section only.

Mathematical Analysis (“M” part of S.T.E.M.)

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The presentation will include the: 1. Structure that was built, 2. Engineering Design Flow Chart of how to

build the structure, 3. Experiment: plants and all materials

associated with this section, and 4. Scientific Method of the experiment. All parts must be typed or 10 points will be

deducted

Evaluation

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Audience Participation

Share successful strategies.

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Audience Participation Possible Questions for Discussion

•Which counties are implementing ITEEA Curricula? Which courses? How are students responding to the curricula?•How do you think the Common Core will affect your teaching strategies in tech ed?

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A Glimpse at the Common Core Standards

http://www.corestandards.org/assets/CCSSI_ELA%20Standards.pdf

Please reflect on the strategies presented today. What information will be helpful for you as an instructor? How can these resources help students connect with your Technology Education curriculum?What would you change to improve the format or presentation?

Audience survey

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Optional Discussion Items…….

Do you have students that think this?

Follow ALL the safety Rules!

1. Use a software-editing program to edit a music video2. Using a computer software program, design a CD

cover.3. Design a model of an amusement park.4. Design a school mascot image to print on t-shirts.5. Design a "theme" restaurant in an existing building.6. Using computers to communicate7. Cloning8. How video materials are developed to communicate a

message9. Robotics10. Characteristics of design

Female (HS and MS) Preferred Activities (Weber and Custer )

1. Build a rocket.2. Construct an electric vehicle that moves on a

magnetic track.3. Perform simple car maintenance tasks on a car

engine.4. Program a robotic arm.5. Design a model airplane that will glide the greatest

distance.6. Robotics7. Using computers to communicate8. Cloning.9. How to repair products10.How video materials are developed to

communicate a message

Male (HS and MS) Preferred Activities (Weber and Custer )

Get your guidance or career counselors on board. Start a technology education club that allows high

school students to mentor middle school students. Create presentation days during which the high

school students show elementary and middle school students how technology connects to their everyday world.

Hold a technology education open house at the high Get your students, female and male, into the local

newspapers. Encourage your students to come up with even

better ideas. Whatever a student creates, he or she will support.

Other Strategies to Increase Student Interest