Making

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/

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

I’m teaching a robotics challenge elective this spring over Zoom. I meet with the students once/week and give them a new challenge. The challenge this week is to make a robot that can ‘floss’. This is my attempt:

One of our 5th Grade teachers is going out on maternity leave. The other 5th grade faculty wanted to have the students make a present for her in my DCM class and asked for my suggestion. I remembered an amazing mobile my son had when he was a baby and […]

I’m teaching an intro to Python elective this trimester. The students are learning the basics via the Codecademy intro course and then they get to try programming a robot arm. I used an ArmUno 2.0 kit from Microbot Labs, a Hummingbird Bit from Birdbrain Tech, and the bitPython library. This […]

I recently did an LED circuit project with a group of first graders. It was challenging to figure out a way to make it easy enough for their limited fine motor skills and attention spans but also engaging and fun. I experimented with my own first grader and came up […]