At the end of the corse kids had to do some research on various topics of their interest: Prisoner’s Dilemma – Combinations and Permutations – Circuits – Arduino – Traveling Sales Person – Processing – Game Theory – Probabilities – Game Trees and Graph Coloring. The aim is to make a poster with the gathered information , so they can present it to their parents. Some students did a fantastic job planning their poster layout.
Students have been working with Arduinos (It’s an open-source physical computing platform – more information at http://arduino.cc/en/Guide/Introduction).
They were afraid at the beginning of burning the bulbs or the chip, but later they were confident enough to explore a little bit more and create circuits.
Circuits-Resistors-Electricity
Demorgan’s Law-Double Imply-Boolean Algrebra
Children explaining their work. Great way to prove if they are getting it!
Children made graphs with clay and noodles. The point was to use the least amount of colors in the graph. Also students built their own Tangrams, and then made one of the shapes from their books.
Amazing activity to make students work on a strategy to solve a problem.
Cool Video: “flexahexagon”
Kids had a great time by doing this activity.
Each of them got a different piece, then made it bigger and as a group they solved the mystery picture.It didn’t turn out to be perfect, but it helped them communicate better with each other and strengthened their relationship.
Awesome for teamwork!
Stanford’s Honor Academy: Day 2
This is what I was able to do after my first day of using Processing!
Teaching Year 3 