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Kitchen Chemistry
Standards aligned high school chemistry curriculum that uses food and cooking to make science hands-on and relatable.
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Assistive Technology Engineering
Engineering course where students partnered with students in the district with physical and cognitive disabilities to create a device that will help them accomplish a task. 3 years
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3D Dream Makers Idea Challenge
2014 Students with special needs often need tools and learning aids that are expensive or don’t exist. I started the Dream Makers Ideas Challenge at the Intermediate School District 916 to quantitatively measure the need, collect a list of things that are needed, and to generate awareness of 3D printing as a solution. After recruiting…
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Electricity and Inquiry curriculum for elementary students
1-2 week hands-on curriculum with how-to videos and notes for instructors. Utilizes the Adafruit Drawdio board but has been adapted for the Circuit Playground as well.Curriculum – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PkOOTJgug72I07byVQfwB4c56I5cynhe_Q7FwXfffaY/edit
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Black and white 2D image to 3D
Developed a simple process of converting simple 2D images into 3D printable tactiles to improve student learning.
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My old teaching site
While looking through my old tweets I found a link to my old teaching website mudandmayhem.com (don’t have it anymore, why did I let a gem of a domain like that lapse?). Luckily many of the posts were in the waybackmachine and they brought back a lot of memories. This is the last of a…
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Unit 2 – Programming
Originally posted JANUARY 18, 2014 The second unit was about two weeks long and introduced students to computer programming. I really lucked out this year by having the nation wide “hour of code” push happen at about the same time. In past years I started out teaching students processing and then arduino. Processing is great…
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Outdoor Conductivity Fun!
Originally Posted: APRIL 22, 2010 This quarter’s Physical Computing class is focusing on making interactive music. The first topic is resistance. We’ve gone over what a regular circuit resistor is and now we’re testing the resistance/conductivity of everything else. Today we a simple circuit to test the conductivity of plants outside. It was amazingly successful…
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Student’s Review of Physical Computing
Originally posted JUNE 14, 2010 I just finished teaching my third quarter long Physical Computing class. It had its ups and downs but was overall very positive. I have my students fill out a Course Review sheet to give me some feedback about what they liked, didn’t like, and what improvements to make. There is…
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WordPress for student run class sites
Originally posted NOVEMBER 2, 2010 I’ve been using WordPress Multi-site for my class website for a few years. Last year I began experimenting with the plugin BuddyPress for student blogs, groups, forum posts, and communication. Students really enjoyed having their own website to customize and the facebook like abilities of updating their status, friending classmates,…