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What are simple machines? How do engineers use them to accomplish tasks and make work easier? TeachEngineering explores how to utilize and combine the six simple machines to make tools and devices that engineers use every day!
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Music: Awaken
Students learn more about assistive devices, specifically biomedical engineering applied to computer engineering concepts, with an engineering challenge to create an automatic floor cleaner computer program. Following the steps of the design process, they design computer programs and test them by programming a simulated robot vacuum cleaner (a LEGO robot) to move in designated patterns. Successful programs meet all the design requirements.
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Music: Feel Good Rock - Audionautix
Can you communicate without electricity? In this activity, students explore a problem in which a school’s power has gone out and they need to deliver an important message to a neighboring first grade classroom. However, they must stay within the following constraints: they cannot use cell phones and they have to stay in their classroom while doing so. Students research and use a variety of tools and materials to build, test, and retest a device that communicates sound the most clearly while learning about and demonstrating how sound causes vibrations.
This engineering curriculum aligns to Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS).
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For this maker challenge, students move through the engineering design process. They investigate Python and Jupyter Notebook to analyze real astronomical images in order to calculate the interstellar distance to a star cluster across the Milky Way from our own Solar System. They learn how to write Python code that runs in a Jupyter Notebook so they can determine the brightness of stars in an astronomical image. Next, students complete the functions in the project to determine how far away a single star in the cluster is from Earth. This is a chance to try hands-on astronomical research techniques in the field of aperture photometry. The real astronomical image data will be directly manipulated and analyzed by code the students create. Groups compare their final images and results to answer questions about the astronomy of stars and stellar distances within the Milky Way. Students experience their discoveries the same way Harvard scientist Harlow Shapley first learned the true size and shape of the Milky Way.
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Music: Aimless Amos
Students work as materials and chemical engineers to develop a bouncy ball using a select number of materials. They move through the engineering design process. They first develop a plan of what materials they might need to design their product. Then, the students create and test their bouncy ball. Based on their tests, students then determine how to re-design and retest their creations to create the bounciest ball possible!
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Music: Milos
Students plant sunflower seeds in plastic cups, and once germinated, expose them to varying light or soil moisture conditions. They measure the seedlings' growth every few days using non-standard measurement (inch cubes). After a few weeks, they compare the growth of plants exposed to the different conditions and make comparative bar graphs that they analyze to draw conclusions about plant needs.
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Cold Funk - Funkorama by Kevin MacLeod
Students investigate the weather from a systems approach, learning how individual parts of a system work together to create a final product. They learn how a barometer works to measure the Earth's air pressure by building a model using simple materials. Students analyze the changes in barometer measurements over time and compare those to actual weather conditions. They learn how to use a barometer to understand air pressure and predict real-world weather changes.
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Music: Payday - Jason Farnham
Students create and analyze composite materials with the intent of using the materials to construct a structure with optimal strength and minimal density. The composite materials are made of puffed rice cereal, marshmallows and chocolate chips. Student teams vary the concentrations of the three components to create their composite materials. They determine the material density and test its compressive strength by placing weights on it and measuring how much the material compresses. Students graph stress vs. strain and determine Young's modulus to analyze the strength of their materials.
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Music: Jazzy Frenchy - Bensound.com
Microcontrollers are the brains of the electronic world, but in order to play with one, you must first get it connected! For this maker challenge, students learn how to connect their Arduino microcontroller circuit boards to computers. First, students are walked through the connection process, helped to troubleshoot common pitfalls, and write their first Arduino programs (setup and loop functions, semicolons, camel case, pin 13 LED). Then they are given the open-ended challenge to create their own blinking LED code—such as writing Morse code messages and mimicking the rhythm of a heartbeat. This practice helps students become comfortable with the fundamental commands before progressing to more difficult programs.
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Music: Whatdafunk - Audionautix
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Mint candies aren’t just a tasty treat; they are useful in learning about engineering concepts! In this activity, students design, build and test model race cars made from simple materials (lifesaver-shaped candies, plastic drinking straws, Popsicle sticks, index cards, tape) as a way to explore independent, dependent and control variables. They measure the changes in distance travelled with the addition of mass to the vehicles. Students also practice the steps of the engineering design process by brainstorming, planning, building, testing, and improving their "mint-mobiles."
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Music: Jazz Apricot - Joey Pecoraro
In an activity that integrates science and art, students see, experience and harness the phenomenon of surface tension as they create beautiful works of art. Students conduct two experiments related to surface tension—floating objects on the surface of water and creating original artwork using floating inks. They also learn historical and cultural information through an introduction to the ancient Japanese art form of suminagashi. They take the topic a step further by discussing how an understanding of surface tension can be applied to solve real-world engineering problems and create useful inventions.
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Music: About That Oldie - Vibe Tracks
Students explore the phenomenon of electricity as they learn about current electricity and necessary conditions for the existence of an electric current. To make sense of this phenomenon, students construct a simple electric circuit and galvanic cell to help them understand voltage, current, and resistance. They also use the disciplinary core ideas of energy and electric current to better understand the crosscutting concept of energy transfer.
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Welcome to the 2024 K12 Innovation Challenge National Finalists’ Presentations!
This year, we invited students in grades K–12 to submit creative solutions for safeguarding our delicate ecosystems. In partnership with Exploring by the Seat of Your Pants, Clearwater
Marine Aquarium, and Ecology Project International, K12 challenged students to address environmental issues within their communities or globally. Students worked individually or in teams of up to three to design, submit, and present proposals in one of six theme areas: habitat restoration, ocean vitality, future farm, endangered species, animal welfare rescue, community engagement.
Today, we celebrate the final presentations from middle and high school students and crown our national winners! Congratulations to all the students presenting today—you’ve done incredible work, and the world needs your big ideas. We also extend our gratitude to all participants for sharing your innovative solutions with us.
Date: June 17th, 2024
Time: 8AM Eastern Time
Location: Live-streamed on Facebook + Youtube
Hosted by: K12
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Join Aliyah in the kitchen to witness her passion and joy for food and family. Then, gather at the table to hear about the benefits of K12-powered online school.
Aliyah loves doing her schoolwork from home and at her own pace. Aliyah’s parents appreciate that K12-powered school is preparing her for the future with a forward-thinking approach. And it’s clear they all enjoy the family vibes and culinary results.
As K12 celebrates 25 years of providing online school options for families, we’re savoring all the success K12-powered students have found through personalized, online learning. We can’t wait to see what the next 25 years will bring. Learn more at: https://bit.ly/4hEkJVY
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Welcome to the 2024 K12 Robotics Competition!
This year, we invited students in grades 4–12 to join the K12 Robotics League. Students worked in teams of two or three, with guidance from their instructors, and participated in two virtual qualifying rounds. Teams competed against others in their grade bands (4–6, 7–9, and 10–12) and skill levels (intermediate and advanced).
Today, we celebrate the top teams from the qualifying rounds as they compete for the national championship! Congratulations to all the students participating today—you’ve demonstrated incredible creativity, problem-solving skills, and coding expertise. Be proud of your achievements and enjoy this exciting culmination of your hard work!
Let the bot battles begin!
Date: June 19th, 2024
Time: 8:30AM ET
Location: Live-streamed on Facebook + Youtube
Hosted by: K12
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http://www.k12.com. K12 is the leader in online learning for grades K through 12 for two fundamental reasons: we develop our own curriculum, widely regarded as the highest quality available online, and we are devoted to fulfilling the promise of education for every child.
Connect with K12!
Find a school: K12.com
Facebook: facebook.com/StrideK12
Instagram: instagram.com/k12learn
TikTok: tiktok.com/@stridek12
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Connect with K12!
Find a school: K12.com
Facebook: facebook.com/StrideK12
Instagram: instagram.com/k12learn
TikTok: tiktok.com/@stridek12
When an ambitious, hard-working animal lover sees the need for veterinary services in her own town, she plans to get the schooling she needs—starting with a solid, online education. Learning from the farm through her K12-powered school gives Ava time for practical hands-on skill development as she cares for more than 50 animals in her own sanctuary.
Ava has a clear vision for her future, and she knows the value of hard work. With the full support of her parents, she’s ready to begin fulfilling her vision of studying veterinary sciences and someday offering full-scale veterinary services to her community.
For more than 25 years, K12 has been heeding the call of families and students who asked for an alternative to traditional onsite education. We’re in awe of what Ava has done with this opportunity and can’t wait to see how the next generation of students will thrive. Learn more at https://bit.ly/40XuDKT.
At the Bronx Parent Center in New York, professors are training parents to play a more active role in their children's schooling, teaching them strategies for helping their children build academic, behavioral, and social skills. ____________________
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While the student population in America's public schools becomes increasingly diverse, the nation's teaching force remains predominantly white. The divide is especially prevalent in urban districts like Chicago, where nearly 90 percent of public school students are black or Hispanic and fewer than half the teachers are. Research suggests that these differences can impact student performance as personal biases and cultural misunderstandings get in the way of learning.
The Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline at Illinois State University takes a step beyond conventional cultural competency training by immersing their teacher candidates in Chicago's highest-need communities - part of a month-long intensive fellowship called STEP-UP.
Education Week Correspondent Lisa Stark followed some of these aspiring teachers through the program. Can STEP-UP truly bridge the cultural divide?
This video aired on PBS NewsHour on August 30, 2016.
More on this topic is available here http://www.edweek.org/ew/artic....les/2016/02/17/for-p ____________________
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About Education Week:
Education Week is America’s most trusted source of independent K-12 education news, analysis, and opinion. Our work serves to raise the level of understanding and discourse about education among school and district leaders, policymakers, researchers, teachers, and the public. Published by the nonprofit organization Editorial Projects in Education, Education Week has been providing award-winning coverage of the field for over 35 years.
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