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Re: Elementary Lego Mindstorm Robotics Club
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Fri, 9 Jun 2000 17:35:52 GMT
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Howdy,
Garrett wrote:
> 1) How many times a week does your club meet? For how long?
At the old PCS Learning Centers, students met for 1.25 hours once a week. I have
set up several
labs in afterschool environments and Boys and Girls Clubs, and this seems to be a
natural pattern.
Some of the Boys and Girls Clubs have advanced students meet twice a week.
I also hosted summer camps, meeting every day for 4 hours for a week. One of the
Boys and Girls Clubs of
Philadelphia plans on rotating their summer kids through everyday for about 45
minutes at a time.
> 2) How many students are involved? Grade Levels?
All over the board. I have worked with preschoolers ( although the focus here
would not be robotics )
up through college freshmen. Median age is 10.
> 3) How many would you suggest for 6-7 Mindstorm kits to share?
I guess I am not the right person to answer this one as I have a different
philosophy regarding this.
I believe in having a big lab with enough components for students to experiment
and build freely with...unfortunately
cost becomes an issue.
> 4) My basic plan was to spend the first month or so, doing activities right
> out of the constructopedia and then moving on to problem-solving machine
> building. How did you operate your club?
We developed our own curriculum ( you can visit www.weirdrichard.com for some
samples ).
I like Bloom's taxonomy...give students a solid skill set and then move them into
evaluative type activities
and challenges. I will post some representative samples.
> 5) I also plan to have a Robotics Fair (in conjunction with our school science
> fair) late in the year. Do any of you do this? Any advice or tips?
Always have some students at the booth. One of the best fairs I caught was with
the GT program in Mountain
Home Idaho, the students built a robot that handed a pop to the principal of the
school.
> 6) Is there anything else you'd like to share with me about your club? Words
> of wisdom? I know I'm headed in the right direction -- I just want to touch
> base with those of you who have already walked this path.
Start with engineering projects!
Richard
rwright@pcsedu.com
www.weirdrichard.com
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