April 21, 2008
I had marble tracks in mind today. Usually I organize my web pages by place and then date.
Today I am making one page and describing all the various projects for one day.
Fifth grade students at VOBE are doing a math/physicis problem that involves finding pairs
of factors that are equal since for forces to balance weight 1 x distance 1 = weight 2 x distance 2.
The 2nd and 3rd grade TAG are starting to work on a systems engineering project of moving marbles.
There are many ways of getting a track to work straight and around corners.
They may make many sub assembles that will work together for a large project.
Central City 1st and 2nd grade TAG checked out the 3th grade acrobat projects and
then went on to design their own acrobats.
There are even young programmers.
Kindergarten at South side added up the score of their ball game by setting up blocks each time
to complete piles of 10 and figure out how many ones left over.
They also figured out how many blocks are needed for a tree that is 2, 3, 4, and 5 rows high.
After school robotics at Southside programed RCX and NXT robots to go though mazes.
Programming on white board constantly involved getting the pointer mouse in the correct spot.
The RCX does well going through the maze using wait until in RoboLab 2.5.4.
The NXT worked well in RoboLab 2.9.4.
The wait until darker did not work on the RCX in RoboLab 2.9.4.
