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Dissecting Computer: Building a Hovercraft
Extracting the hard drive from an old computer. Our school was recycling some old computers, so my students convinced me that it would be worthwhile o dissect a few of them to see if there was anything...
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Dendrochronology with Bradford Pears
A slice out of the trunk of a Bradford Pear tree. With the help of Scott Woodbury from the Shaw Nature Reserve, Dr. Sansone lead the effort to remove the six mature Bradford Pear trees from the front...
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Getting Started with a Raspberry Pi
Student wires LED’s to a circuit on a breadboard attached to a Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi‘s are small computers that are remarkably easy to use if you know what you’re doing. Unfortunately, I did not...
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DNA Visualization
Screen capture from R.M’s code. Another interesting project that came out of the Creativity Interim was a VPython program that uses the DNA Writer translation table to convert text into a DNA sequence...
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Light and Sound with a Raspberry Pi
LED light circuits on a breadboard controlled to Raspberry Pi via a cobbler (connected to a ribbon of wires). Although it took us a day to figure out how to get the Raspberry Pi to work–a faulty SD...
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Dance Lesson
S. demonstrates a jump (Photo by Meredith F.). This interim focuses on our global community. As a result, one of our Chinese students gave a lesson on a traditional dance. I think I made a good start...
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Paper Butterflies
Paper butterflies. Another one of this interim’s student-lead projects was a lesson in cutting out paper patterns. The colors were beautiful, the patterns elegant. Drawing a pattern on folded paper. A...
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Building Bridges (Literally)
Small, movable bridge. My crew from the Gaga Ball pit decided to make a trail through the woods and across the creek. So they built two short (12 ft long) bridges to cross the creek itself, and a...
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Our Natural Bridge
Crossing the bridge. Inspired by a video of a temporary bridge built out in the woods for mountain biking, my students wanted to try building a “natural” bridge with no fasteners–no screws, no...
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Making Stools
Upholstering a small stool. After building our vegetable boxes, I had one of the students use some of the wood scraps to make some small stools. They make it easier for us to sit cross-legged on the...
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Longboard
Longboard built during the interim. Finishing came afterwards. For my makerspace project I made a longboard. What went well with the board was the wheels and trucks, it was a simple hole in the wood...
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http://MontessoriMuddle.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/IMG-1999.mp4 Our seniors wanted to leave a mark, so after their initial application to paint the outside wall of the gym was turned down, they...
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