Aamir Ashiqali, Reilly Elementary SchoolChris Etapa, Gunsaulus Scholastic Academy

Suzanne Olds, Biomedical Engineering Department, Northwestern University

ASEE K12 WorkshopJune 17, 2006

Session Agenda

General Overview History plus introductions Challenge Structure of unit Legacy Cycle

Hands-on activity - Disability Awareness

Overview

2-5 week hands-on engineering challenge to middle school students

Addresses many state and national learning standards in science, math, technology, language arts, and social science

Challenge

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Structure of the unit

Lesson Format

Some lessons take more than one day All lessons are now in the structure of the

Legacy Cycle

What is a Legacy Cycle? An instructional framework that incorporates findings from

educational research on how people best learn. 4 “centerednesses” of How People Learn (HPL)

Knowledge-centeredness Student-centeredness Assessment-centeredness Community-centeredness

Legacy Cycle

Challenge

Generate Ideas

Multiple Perspectives

Research and Revise

Test Your Mettle

Go Public

Legacy Cycle Steps

Challenge - Question that engages the students and requires them to look at current knowledge and preconceptions.

Generate Ideas – An activity that causes students to display and compile their current knowledge/ideas/perceptions.

Multiple Perspectives - Other resources that provide information related to the topic of the challenge.

Research and Revise – Activities that students engage in to help students revise their original ideas based on new information

Test Your Mettle – Formative assessments that enable students evaluate the depth of their learning Research and Revise.

Go Public - Final conclusion(s) that students display.

Legacy Cycle

Challenge

Generate Ideas

Multiple Perspective

sResearch

and Revise

Test Your Mettle

Go Public

It’s your turn…

Lesson 3 will be distributed Chris will give an overview of entire lesson You will do the Disability Awareness

activity embedded in this lesson.

Lesson 3 Overview Main challenge: What features should your

prosthesis include? Legacy cycle format 4 activities in Research and Revise

Disability Awareness Activity Afghan, Culture, Geography, and Demographics Cross Cultural Comparisons Activity Artificial Limbs PowerPoint slides/discussion

Extension Activities