User:Vtaylor/NASA Summer of Innovation/notes

activities
 * e4k NASA, Engineering Design Process

== todo==
 * Angie - NEON
 * use engineering design process format - "posters"
 * community of practice - blog, WE Google Group, Edmodo, Twitter ? #k8engr
 * workshop participants
 * Valerie - computer simulations, scratch, lego, penny bridge, straw rockets, spaghetti tower, paper planes
 * Linda - rockets, styrofoam rover, balloon rocket - fishing line
 * ? Becky, Lisa, ERAU
 * e4k pages - kids instructions
 * kids - Edmodo ? individual, small groups, kid-directed


 * supplies - bamboo skewers, washers,foam trays


 * sites - check filter, access - Try Engineering games http://www.tryengineering.org/play.php, Scratch - Flash

== log== 2013.06.28
 * educator workshop - WE, blog, Google Groups - Randy and colleagues at Information and Communications Technology Council ICTC (Canada)
 * kids instructions - e4k
 * LEGO - activities, wheels, Mindstorm NXT - replace with EV3 when shipping
 * plan - teachers, dates, topics, share
 * activities - kids feedback / tracking - blog
 * list - entering 4-9 > Edmodo for tracking, feedback

2013.06.27 soda straw rockets

2013.06.26
 * joe, lisa, suzanne - $$, supplies, administration, scheduling - kim, april, linda mclean, stem teacher, nasa acceptance conditions ? bus to ksc, time sheets, volusia teachers clearance, others with escort,

2013.06.25
 * Kim, Linda - plan, Linda lead, Tues or Thur - start Thr 27jun am, kids going into 6-9 in fall 2013, NASA rocket camp activities - learned / used last year
 * ? PD participants, requirements

2013.06.24
 * Twitter #k8engr
 * Kim - full time, replacing Neal
 * Joe - need w-9, Organization Funds Payable To County

2013.06.22
 * Lisa - soi last year, $ > county org, w-9, ? kim
 * dana, BL, AS, nancy, erau, TG, DWV, LM, LC,

2013.06.21 - notification - Your application for New Smyrna Beach Boys & Girls Club has been recommended for an award

- NASA webinar - Engineering Design Process

2013.06.10 - application submission deadline

== Educator Network - lead, participate, share== NASA SoI activities - sessions with kids

NASA SoI Professional Development Workshop - PD Workshop participants help with the activity with the kids, and discuss the activity with the Lead Educator immediately following the session. Each PD Workshop participant creates a "engineered solution story" based on the activity, appropriate for self-directed Differentiated Learning.
 * activities - work with Lead Educator with kids
 * discussion


 * Kidblog - post activity, kids comments
 * WikiEducator - Activities - educator workshop notes - sharing observations, ideas
 * Google Group - Educator Workshop


 * deliverable - e4k story related to activity - engineering concepts, application, examples, engineering design process, activity, instructions for kids
 * ? Twitter, Edmodo
 * ? stipend

Learn more...
 * Teaching Teachers to Teach Engineering (T3E) - It is going to be time consuming, and will lag the need, but it still needs to be done, and included in the project

engineering notebook model
sample email

We applied for and got a NASA Summer of Innovation award to have some teachers do STEM activities with the middle school kids (entering 4-9) at New Smyrna Beach Boys & Girls Club over the summer. http://www.soi-mini-awards.com/

Now we need to find several teachers to lead activity sessions with the kids. If you know a teacher who would like to lead one or more of the sessions, please let me know.

Each session - 1-2 hours with the 11-20 kids, up to 1 additional hour with "educators" discussing STEM / Engineering teaching using the activity

Any weekday. There are dozens of NASA activities with lesson plans, or choose your own. There is a Professional Development Workshop component so there will be at least one other adult "educator" there who will be helping and learning. There is money for a small stipend and materials.

PD Workshop participants help with the activity with the kids, and discuss the activity with the Lead Educator immediately following the session. Each PD Workshop participant creates a "engineered solution story" based on the activity, appropriate for self-directed Differentiated Learning.

Are you interested? Are you available to lead one or more sessions? Let me know.

== Inquiry-based learning, differentiated instruction==

Inquiry-based learning - involvement in learning that leads to understanding. possessing skills and attitudes to seek resolutions to questions and issues while constructing new knowledge.


 * outcomes - knowledge about the natural and human-designed worlds. How are these worlds organized? How do they change? How do they interrelate? And how do we communicate about, within, and across these worlds?


 * replace lesson plans with facilitated learning plans that account for slight deviations while still keeping an important learning outcome in focus.


 * examples - The Golden Age of Flying, Engines and Green Energy

Differentiation means tailoring instruction to meet individual needs. Whether teachers differentiate content, process, products, or the learning environment, the use of ongoing assessment and flexible grouping makes this a successful approach to instruction.
 * kids working individually or in small groups
 * appropriate to readiness, interest, or learning profile

NASA Summer of Innovation
 * great lesson plans, activities for teacher-directed instruction

Need self-directed
 * content - stories - like Wikipedia with examples, background
 * process - activity instructions for kids
 * product - show & tell deliverable
 * learning environment - text, video, images, individual/group,

Other ideas
 * inquiry-based learning - questions What if...? How? Why? video - Astrobiology - Life Here and Out There - assumes facilitator is asking the questions
 * What is Project-Based Learning - checklist - 21st Century skills and competencies (collaboration, communication, critical thinking)
 * ** kids need to ask the questions - right question