Experiments In Terror They were assigned a rube goldberg projectbuild an elaborate contraption withpulleys, levers, fulcrums, slides and weights that Hey, teach, is that your http://www.clearlight.com/~jtrosen/tony_stuff/march122000.html
Convoluted Contraptions Teach Physics Convoluted contraptions teach physics. Ward, Oakwood Junior High School 8th graders,prepare to demonstrate their rube goldberg device, a project made in http://www.daytondailynews.com/photo/content/localnews/gallery/0520rube1.html
SchoolNotes.com - Notes Page The RG projects were absolutely amazing. giftedness and reminded why I love to teachgifted kids have read and signed the rubric for the rube goldberg project. http://www.schoolnotes.com/77598/stewsci.html
Edweblogs: NECC 2003: Thoughts From A New Weblogger A former student came back to teach me Photoshop and showed me her blog high schoolcreated a web page that talked about a rube goldberg project, with links http://necc.edweblogs.org/2003/archives/000083.html
Extractions: Exploring the Impact of Emerging Technologies in Education Main Blogging has been a topic I have been interested in for over almost two years. A former student came back to teach me Photoshop and showed me her blog and some of the community of bloggers that she was involved with. I wanted to try blogging and see how it works, then possibly set something up at my middle school next Fall. The meeting was great! A lot of good ideas. A lot of friendly helpful people ready and willing to talk about how to do it and what they had done with it. The next thing is to work on is how this will work for my students! I am a Seattle resident attending 5 NECC workshops in 3 days. I also need to get in some time at the exhibits, because that is one of the best parts of the conference! I have been to a Generation Y class, where I learned about teaching students to become technology support for teachers. (Some schools used it with students as young as 3rd grade.) The kids collaborate with a willing teacher partner to create something the teacher can use with a lesson of their choice. One student in high school created a web page that talked about a "Rube Goldberg" project, with links to pages about simple machines, who was Goldberg, and details of the project, including a rubric. A middle school student created a PowerPoint show about Coral reefs including links and an assessment. Some students found a list of websites about the teacher's topic. The teacher and student set up the project and the student then worked it out checking back with the partner teacher and under that supervision of the Gen.Y teacher. It looks like a very promising program!
RIT Mechanical Engineering The goals are to teach students Teamwork; Techniques for The second project is adesignand-build project. each build several steps of a rube goldberg machine. http://www2.rit.edu/meche/courses.php?id=66
Justification Of The Day a number of alternative assessments research project, essays, rube goldberg competition,trebuchet You have chosen to teach using a constructivist http://www.phy.ilstu.edu/faculty/wenning/ptefiles/312content/justification.html
Extractions: Justification of the Day As teacher candidates will have an opportunity to justify (e.g., to prove or show to be just, right, or reasonable) the following situations which are, ostensibly, justifiable. The solution to each problem might not be clearly evident, and you might have to spend a bit of time reflecting on each situation before discussing the situation in class. You might have to do some background work, and review some of the materials provided to you in the teacher preparation process here at ISU. It's the first week of class, and you are having an open house for parents. You explain that you intend to teach using inquiry, and that this will result in a strong emphasis on depth of understanding. You also mention that you probably won't rely too much on a textbook, and that your students will construct knowledge from experience. Lastly, you note that you won't be covering the entire 454-page textbook. A parent asks, "My daughter won't be getting the coverage she needs to do well on college entrance exams." How do you justify your action? You have given your students a "research project" to carry out at home. You have asked them to create an experiment to determine how air speed affects pressure. You have suggested the use of paper, straws, thimbles, and so on which students will blow through, over, or between. You then ask students to write up a report of their findings. You provide the students with a rather detailed rubric for the report lots of dimensions and descriptors for "unacceptable, poor, fair, and acceptable." A parent calls you at home that evening, complaining about the rubric. "It's too complex, and asks for too much." How do you justify your action?
Elysian Audio [root/james/bio] the University of Chicago School Mathematics Project Conference while in high schooldidn t teach there Mission Possible, a design/build rube goldberg style event http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jglettle/about/J_bio.html
Extractions: Help? Best in Mozilla e.a. > about > main News Projects About ... Contact :: Elysian Audio :: About E.A. History of E.A. Website Evolution :: James Glettler :: About James Short Bio James's Resume :: Other Information :: Audio System Operational Labs Business Cards My Short Biography My interest in electronics began at a very young age. According to my parents it was when I was sitting on the counter in the kitchen when I was three and accidentally stuck my fingers in the electrical outlet receiving a painful shock. And after being knocked over, I tried to do it again. Hmm, maybe there is something wrong with me (that's a affirmative). So in my quest to both bother my parents for all I was worth, and to learn more about electricity, I received a crystal radio kit for Christmas when I was about four. Is that weird? I thought it was awesome and I would be running around all day trying out different antennas. What's more, the radio still works today. And to top it off, I was annoying. I used to think I was reincarnated from Thomas Edison or Nicola Tesla. Well I don't think that's true any more. It turns out those guys were kind of nutty.
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January2004newsletter A PowerPoint Presentation is designed and presented to teach the class about theinformation. rube goldberg Simple Machine ProjectStudents utilize http://dixiesd.marin.k12.ca.us/millercreek/gjohnson/jan2004newsletter.htm
Extractions: Miller Creek Middle School January 2004 Newsletter Dear Miller Creek Families, Welcome back and Happy New Year! I would first like to personally invite all interested parents to the January 13 th Dixie Board of Trustees Meeting at 7:00 pm in the District Office Board Room. Community members will be presenting a proposal to attempt a parcel tax measure in April of this year. It is extremely important that the Board know there exists a strong support base behind this new effort. With so much at stake for the future of Miller Creek, I hope you can join us! Before the break, many of you were able to conference with your child's teachers. I hope this time was productive. Just meeting teachers face-to-face and having a conversation should provide you with a sense of confidence and familiarity. While I realize this is a complicated and time-consuming process, I appreciate your understanding regarding logistics. A few people have offered improvement suggestions and I do appreciate them, so thanks! The Miller Creek Home and School Club will host guest speaker, Kathy McShane on the night of
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Dickinson State University - West River Teacher Center Schedule NASA (K3); Dizzy Dinosaur Word Puzzle; Don t teach! of the Earth - Golden Book(Primary); teacher in Space Project; The Best of rube goldberg - gadgets http://www.dickinsonstate.com/WRTC_otherresource_info.asp?CategoryID=39
Mite-l - Missouri Institute For Technology Education: RE: 2nd Topic certified teachers and core teachers to teach Tech ed or. hovercrafts, rube Goldbergmachines, flight projects/displays dealing with impacts of technology on http://listsrv.cmsu.edu/archives/mite-l/2004/Apr/0001.html
Extractions: Hello Everyone, As a new student teacher...I have both observed and used varied aspects of the "core" areas in my lesson planning and delivery. Math...as used in measurement(whole numbers,fractions,decimals,also metrics). Science...as in applied theory and Envioramental issues (attributes of materials, proccesses, ergonomics, waste, water and air).Language arts...as in communication (journaling, note taking, comparison-contrast, itemized parts-materials lists,and identification). All teachers are in the same business...teaching people how to better themselves!
Re-engineering The Freshman Experience GE 197 were required to complete a rube goldberg creative problem the design work,use spreadsheets and present their project. The professors who teach it are http://www.hpcnet.org/sdsmt/SiteID=200218
Extractions: The program is an expansion of the interdisciplinary "Professionalism in Engineering and Science" (GE 197) course developed two years ago by Dr. Alfred Boysen, Professor of English, and Dr. Jon Kellar, Associate Professor of Metallurgical Engineering. Designed as a one-credit orientation course for freshmen, GE 197 exposed freshman students to examples of leadership, career selection, and college survival skills. Funded by the Reinvestments Through Efficiencies budget, PPES seeks to help those students succeed who by all indications should succeed according to their ACT test scores. The dropout rate for engineering students is relatively high at many engineering institutions. Although not a stated goal, increasing the retention rate of engineering students is expected to occur if the program is successful. By linking educational experiences across the curriculum, the faculty team anticipates that participating students will make better connections with curricular materials, will be better able to apply their knowledge and technical skills to new problems, and will be more motivated to learn and make the sacrifices necessary to become engineers and scientists. The vision of PPES is to provide a new culture for engineering/science education in which students and faculty work in partnership to produce an enduring foundation for student development and life-long learning.
Starting With A Clean Slate | Csmonitor.com Records even though the rube goldberg device was at Olin is overseeing the MarsPort greenhouse project. been advocating that we teach subjects completely http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0205/p11s02-lehl.htm
Extractions: from the February 05, 2002 edition - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0205/p11s02-lehl.html Before an engineering college opens, 30 student 'partners' test out its radical approach By Mark Clayton NEEDHAM, MASS. - Visiting the building site of the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering, the first US engineering school in four decades to be created from the ground up, is like witnessing a collective academic bungee jump. Leighton Ige, a high school valedictorian from Hawaii, could have gone to Harvard last fall. Instead, he came to a muddy construction site as one of 30 new "Olin partners." Along with faculty and a cadre of other math and science wunderkinder, these adventurous students are spending this year creating a new model for undergraduate engineering education. Through innovative design projects like the recent attempt to build the world's largest Rube Goldberg machine, faculty say they will develop a curriculum that both inspires students and causes lessons to stick like super glue, rather than being quickly forgotten. Inspiration does not seem to be a problem. Like most of the young partners here, Mr. Ige happily works around the clock for no class credit. His 16- to 20-hour days are typical for many students. In essence, they are voluntary curriculum guinea pigs for the school's first 22 faculty members.
Inventions @ Urban I thought that the rube goldberg part of the class As for the final project, intertwiningphysics and art is Throughout the term, I had to teach myself certain http://pie.exploratorium.edu/scrapbook/invent/eval.html
Extractions: Student Self-Evaluations At first the amount of independence we were given in this class did not work for me. My first few creations were not successful because I would come up with an elaborate plan and spend so much time building it that I didn't have enough time left over to make it work. But I definitely learned from my mistakes. I learned to start with a simple base and then add on as time allowed. This class was difficult for me in a different way than any other class. I was so involved in this class and my projects that I found it hard to stop working on an assignment. I am always happy when I finally finish an essay or a book but it was incredibly frustrating to have to stop working on something even if it wasn't quite where I wanted it to be. I am proud of the work I did in this class and feel like I am taking a lot away. Inventions has been one of my favorite classes while at Urban and I feel that I have been very successful in this class even though a few of my projects didn't finish with an end result. I enjoyed learning something new about inventions and about completing a given task during each project. The series of simple machine parts was especially interesting and I managed to build a nice wooded "cam" device which I was proud of. After using wood in the simple machine project, I was ambitious to add craftsmanship to all my inventions and this has been something that I have worked on throughout the rest of the course. Combining the applied physics with design and engineering concepts in this class have made it a course that has really worked out for me at Urban and I am glad to have had a chance to take Inventions.
Argonne News 04/22/02 projects funded by Illinois include Both contests are licensed by rube GoldbergInc. Click here to return to the index. Chef to teach Asian cooking. http://www.anl.gov/OPA/local/news02/an020422.html
Extractions: Service Award Dinner photos now available Fiscal year 2002 saw the State of Illinois providing more funding for Argonne programs, making major contributions to such cutting-edge projects as the Nanotechnology Research Institute (NRI), the proposed Rare Isotope Accelerator (RIA) and I-WIRE. "The state government believes this is money well invested in its own economic development," said Argonne Director Hermann Grunder. "It's all tied to science and technology, which eventually creates jobs in the private sector." Projects funded by Illinois include: The NRI, expected to enable major advances in manufacturing, communications, health and agriculture. Illinois contributed $2 million to the NRI this year. RIA, which would create beams of short-lived isotopes for nuclear research. RIA also received $2 million in design funding from Illinois in FY '02, up from $1.65 million in FY '01.
Curricular Model : Philosophy Of Design The course aims to teach creative design of products and For the midterm project,he says, students used to make a creative, rube goldbergtype of http://apps.nciia.net/WebObjects/NciiaResources.woa/wa/View/CurricularModel?n=10
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