My 5th grade robotics students are having trouble engineering their catapults so I made this prototype to inspire them.
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This is my super simple, basic granola recipe. I don’t like to add any seeds or dried fruit (because they tend to cook faster than the oats) or nuts (because my spouse has an allergy). I generally sprinkle pumpkin seeds and raisins on top when I eat it but not […]
Since the beginning of the pandemic, board game sales have skyrocketed. I thought it would be fun to have 5th graders design and build their own board games. It’s a great project for teaching the basics of the design thinking process and it pulls in a lot of skills we […]
For our last project in 5th grade Design + Code + Make this year we did an integrated unit with Science. The students learned about the wetlands biome (our school is located near the Ballona Wetlands). Each student was assigned an animal that is found in the wetlands. They researched […]
Thank you to everyone who attended my session on Saturday! Here is my presentation: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1D33EL5hdIzMDW1m14uZo_RTTsIGlwb1NamM0ZDxJ0Ug/edit?usp=sharing
We’re doing a Scratch unit with 5th grade right now so I created this game to remind myself how everything works. It’s been a while since I did anything in Scratch. https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/500320374/
We haven’t had kids on campus to get their school photos taken this year. So, I decided to have parents take yearbook portrait photos themselves and upload them via a Google Form. The problem: the spreadsheet created by the Google form has a link to the uploaded file but doesn’t […]
My son loves waffles but I don’t love how he acts when his blood sugar plummets an hour after eating them. So, I came up with this high protein, high fiber waffle recipe. We lovingly call them ‘hippie waffles’ because my wife was raised by hippies and grew up eating […]
I attend a lot of conferences, meetings, and workshops aimed at educational technology professionals. Something I see too often is a conflation of these two concepts: educational technology and technology education. I think it’s vital to make the distinction. Remembering that these are two separate things helps clarify our goals […]
Book 2 in the Justin Vincent Series: Master thief Justin Vincent and his computer hacker partner Ashna help people recover stolen items when the authorities can’t. This time, their client needs his missing research notes back—notes that could help provide the solution to a century old musical mystery. The trail […]
I’m preparing a 5th grade project where the students will design and laser cut rubber band powered airplanes. This is my first prototype. I definitely need to angle the wings to create more lift and use a lighter material.
As a quarantine project, my son and I created this text based adventure game. He designed it and I helped him program. He’s 7 so expect weirdness. He got into this via Zork which we played to help with his reading. GO TO THE GAME