November 2, 2015 MO PLTW Greg Thiel, Shawnee Mission South

Make a decision to grow Don’t stop improving as a teacher Find new ideas Get new perspectives Dream up some ideas and share them with someone who can help you make them better.

Outline Selling the Program… Architectural Features Structural Analysis… Prerequisites… Quizzes in the LMS Big Ideas… SHED Project HABITAT Project COMMERCIAL Project… Revit Instruction… Revit Demonstration

Selling the Program… Be Enthusiastic! Use hall displays to increase awareness Sell T-Shirts (and wear them yourself) Get help from the math and science teachers. Adopt a team approach, not a competitive approach to enrollment.

Selling the Program… Social Media

Selling the Program… Well Timed Special Events Contests Lunch and Learn Guest Speakers

Architectural Features Create a display to retain the best work from year to year. Used as a teaching tool. Sets a clear, ever improving standard to which students can aspire.

Structural Analysis… Beam Sample helps students see the moment forces.

Prerequisites… 11 th graders having an epiphany

Quizzes in the LMS Take home with book. Formative/Summative

Quizzes in LMS… Analyze the questions…

Quizzes in LMS… Not a good question…

Big Ideas… Miniature City Block

Big Ideas… CEA Contest. Students teams competing for a project…

SHED Project 3D Print One! Use the architectural template Have students set up their own “template”, creating levels etc.

HABITAT Project Use an actual site.

HABITAT Project Room Cut-Outs Cropped views on sheets Early Check Points

COMMERCIAL Project… Presentation Ideas Panel of Engineers & Architects Formal Students are trying to win the project proposal Invite parents & Administrators etc.

COMMERCIAL Project… Project Template Set Up Wall Types Levels Units Location (heat/cool, solar study) Sheets Required

Presentation Highlights… Background image of site Arrow locater on floor plan

Revit Instruction… Demonstrate in small chunks Use student exemplars in the form of pdf Build a house along with them (Rarely gets finished…)

Revit Demonstration Design from massing Solar Study Topo Activity on the football field Curtain Wall Basics