Hack Your Classroom:
Building an Equitable Lab on a Budget.
@RyanHays15
ryan.hays@puhsd.org
Ryan Hays (PS)
Science Teacher
Vid 1
Who we are:
Student Population: 2600
Free and Reduced Lunch: 91%
Avid Population: 25%
Active EL Population: 27%
But another 25% were recently enrolled in EL programs within the past three years.
The end of a long and perfect road…
But what if things don’t go so well? How will we help students see themselves in a new light?
What is STEM trying to accomplish?
The light needs to shine.
It has got to be fast, to be effective.
Vid 3
Classroom
Classroom:
Project-based learning has always been a good idea in STEM
Vid 2
Project-based learning has always been a good idea in STEM
I love these big projects, but they are expensive, time-consuming, and they don’t involve enough students.
Club
Project-based learning has always been a good idea in STEM
To increase access, I needed rapid prototyping on a shoestring budget.
VClub
Microcontrollers can make amazing low-cost projects quickly.
Nano: Small, Breadboard ready, Cheap
Uno: Most common, easy to wire, cheap,
variety of resources available on youtube,
Instructables, Make….
Mega: Bigger projects
Community
Months, not years.
Massimo Banzi
Buzz Fass
The L293d dual H-Bridge driver runs two electric motors from 5 to 36 volts for one dollar.
Vid 4
CClub
Vid 5
Club
Can Open-Source technology be real?
Months, not years.
Massimo Banzi
Building The Shop
To get to Rapid Prototyping, you will need some things. I use Ubermix.
All the cool stuff in college ran on Linux.
Building The Shop
-Kits work, but a community working together could further cut the cost.
I’m not a social media genius.
In the classroom, It started as special projects and a method for differentiation.
Everybody Loves Blinking Lights
In the classroom, It started as special projects and a method for differentiation.
Within a few short weeks, we wanted to mash it up!
Within a few short weeks, we wanted to mash it up!
Ideas came very easy at this point.
I was finding new ways of shining that light on kids!
So how can this be used to teach science?
NGSS
-Study, Evaluate, Design, Refine…
Get the data….
Analyze the data.
NGSS
-Study, Evaluate, Design, Refine…
Vernier didn’t have to, but they did.
For ten dollars, we were able to bring twelve year old probes back to life!
Vernier didn’t have to, but they did.
For ten dollars, we were able to bring twelve year old probes back to life!
Data to analyze and draw conclusions from.
This design has been refined… a little.
Roles are one possible access method.
-Project Management
-Research and Development
-Production Engineering
-Public Relations
http://lsr02.puhsd.org/access/web?id=d9ec804c-768f-11e5-b869-002590c5d8c0
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Roles are one possible access method.
-Project Management
-Research and Development
-Production Engineering
-Public Relations
-Tech Support
http://lsr02.puhsd.org/access/web?id=d9ec804c-768f-11e5-b869-002590c5d8c0
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PI Day, 2015
Servos Repurposed
He’s not happy with the performance of his modified servo.
Build Video
STUDENT SLIDE
Demo Video
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PI Day, 2015
Our latest lab..
Instructions are given to the Project Managers
Leave room for creativity.
Production Engineer
*All measurements will need to be multiplied by 10*
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Production Engineer
(Sketch on tinkercad)
STUDENT SLIDE
What we had to do here was plug in the arduino board into the computer so we can collect the data through there. And we secured the sensor with bricks to make sure the sensor wouldn’t get damaged when we drop something on it. �
(We would need to drop an object on it so the sensor can do its job and start processing numbers of the time and length. )
Once we dropped the object all these numbers popped up on the screen and that's how we collected all the data.
STUDENT SLIDE
Photos : Research & Development
(Sketching on google)
(Gathering Wires)
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Production Engineer
This is the distance between table and the floor target.
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Public Relations
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Essential Question
The value of gravity is 9.8 m/s. However, our group received 6.9 m/s. The greater the mass, the higher the force of gravitation. �
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Book Dropped
We improved gravity!
STUDENT SLIDE
Is this an optimal design solution?
NGSS
-Study, Evaluate, Design, Refine…
I’m excited about NGSS.
One possible flow of development.
Pinacate Middle School is unstoppable!
We are growing!
We are growing!
A.I. Club
Special Thanks
Justin Brecht Chad Shaner
Jedidiah Butler Maria Simani
Elena Gartel Mark Synott
Brenda Harris Joseph Williams
Nick Hilton
Shane Pinnel
@RyanHays15 @PerrisHigh