That was super fun tonight!
I wish we had more time at each activity. I really enjoyed making the roller coaster,
and am planning on creating one in Minecraft later. I will probably have my students do that for
a STEM lesson next. It was great to go
over potential, kinetic, and dissipated energy.
I feel like I truly understand it now.
After class I had to go back to the build your own roller coaster
site. I was so frustrated that I couldn’t
get it to work. I added several loops
and found that it helped. It only took
me a couple of minutes and I was able to successfully build a track that
works.
As for the assignment, I feel like you guys are really
pushing us. Every week I start out
really worried that I am going to do it all wrong. But when I finish the activity I feel like I
really accomplished something that was a challenge. It sure makes me feel good. I am, again, skeptical about our task this
week. But I am excited to work on it.
An update on my project. I am getting together with the two boys this Thursday to see what they have come up with for research on building a ship. Then we will discuss and possibly just move onto the next step, which is calculating how much material we will need to create this ship on Minecraft.
I wish we had more time as well - seems like we needed about 3-4 more minutes in the Minecraft rotation, but I think we were able to get people thinking about Potential -> Kinetic / Dissipated energy so at least we accomplished that goal. I liked having the different stations as it gave everyone the opportunity to see the topic using different tools and think about it multiple times in multiple ways.
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