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I am hoping to teach a Lego class for the University of Utah this summer. I am "required to prepare and submit a class syllabus and an outline of topics to be discussed. Legomania I: Ages 7-9. Creates hands-on activities to teach students about (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.space)
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(...) KK Quah teaches Robotic to children, often using LEGO. Plus he has that natural teacher skill where he can just pick up some brick and teach it to the kids and they love it. It was an amazing thing to watch. I highly recommend you give him a (...) (20 years ago, 26-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) Lego classes? What? How the heck did you find manage to find that job, man? That sounds hella good. I presume you're an accredited teacher, though.. Anyhow, I'm not a Lego educator, but I do have one suggestion that might help you. You could (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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Paul, I've been doing this for two hours a week for the last four years so I think I can lend a hand. :) I'll start putting some stuff together. You don't need this right away, do you? Just for clarification... you're teaching this to adult (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) First, it's unclear if you are teaching adults how to teach children, or if you are teaching children? In either case, the below gives some ideas (I hope). I've been teaching (or trying to teach) Lego robotics for two years now to 5-12 year (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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(...) the students are Ages 7-9 (15 kids) I've got a general idea of what I want to do, I'm just looking for lots of ideas and then I can parse them and compare to what I think already. I'll probably call PITSCO's free syllabus help line, and lego (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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Hey Paul, It sounds like fun. Check out these Dacta sets: (URL) seem like the sort of thing you might be looking for. There are instructions for simple machines that teach kids about different mechanical principals--gears, levers etc. Hey, I just (...) (20 years ago, 27-May-04, to lugnet.general)
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