2011 T.E.E.A.M. Fall Conference “Changing Content and Practices” Winters Mill HS Westminster, MD Friday October 21, 2011 Ruth Akers Sollers Point Technical High School Baltimore County Public Schools

Objective

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

1. Review TEEAM Wiki Procedures 2. Share a few specific projects. 3. Audience participation: Share successful strategies that have worked. 4. Audience survey

These 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

Share Strategies.

An Important Step in the Engineering Design Process Special Thanks to Oregon MESA ( ) and Portland State University Foundation ( or at for their curriculum resources.

 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.

“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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 Guinea Worm Video-The Carter Foundation (5 minutes) Shows how the people of The Carter Center have dramatically reduced the dreaded guinea worm disease in Africa. (5 minutes)  Playpump-OPB Frontline (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 (23 minutes, 41 seconds) This is the video that breaks down what actually happenedhttp://   Well Maintenance in Bouar, Central African Republic-Mercy Corp (2 minutes, 11 seconds)  Indonesia’s Dirty Water (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.  Beyond Scarcity: Power, Poverty and the Global Water Crisis (5 minutes, 21 seconds) Good example of common living, slum conditions

 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

 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 ___.

 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 ___

 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 ___.

STEM Connection Idea Collaborate with Math, and Science Teachers at Sollers Point Technical High School

STEM Connection Idea Collaborate with Math, and Science Teachers Resources: Steps of the design process used by the science teachers to introduce an inquiry based activity. 1. FEQhttp:// FEQ 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.   BAVRSSFEQ BAVRSSFEQ

 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.  projects/project_scientific_method.shtml projects/project_scientific_method.shtml   method-for-kids.html#SMSteps method-for-kids.html#SMSteps

 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.

 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

Share successful strategies.

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?

A Glimpse at the Common Core Standards

Audience survey

Optional Discussion Items…….

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1. Use a software-editing program to edit a music video 2. 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 communicate 7. Cloning 8. How video materials are developed to communicate a message 9. Robotics 10. Characteristics of design

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.Robotics 7.Using computers to communicate 8.Cloning. 9.How to repair products 10.How video materials are developed to communicate a message

 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.