coding challenge idea/mathandscience

[Douglas Westbrook]

Sounds wonderful.

we could add a few suggested areas for students to ask about during  
their oral history interview, like how they used water, a garden  
story, a horse story (my grandma raced her horse at age 16, she's 82  
now.)   This would give students an expanded way to gather  
interesting data and then they could share their stack in show/tell,  
or at a parents night, and could even tie into readings from  
historical fiction (maybe even generate an e-reading log? or links to  
primary source documents about historical events.  (so all the hard  
planning is done upfront, then the teacher has an extremely useful  
tool to anchor discussions in history.

Lisa W

On Jun 1, 2005, at 10:16 AM, Mark Greenberg wrote:

     Since we're brainstorming (kind of cool, since we're all over  
the world), how about this?  The student is asked to make a family  
tree -- a common assignment grades 2-12 in my part of the world.   
They use an inspiration stack similar to Ron's to create the family  
tree.  It has nodes for each family member and links that describe  
the relationships.  When the students are done with the family tree,  
they create their own Rev stack to tell about the family members.   
This stack is linked to the tree nodes so that when Grandpa's node is  
option clicked (or whatever), it launches a picture, an audio of  
Grandpa talking about the drought of '57, a field containing the  
horse feed recipe, and a whatever else the student can come up with.

     This incorporates Ron's ingenious framework, Judy's criteria for  
a worthwhile challenge, maybe Marielle's tree structure (as an  
alternate view of the family tree), and Lisa's Grandpa.  The second  
part could branch into history, science, media studies, language  
arts, art history or art production, etc.  Of course, this assumes  
that students have access to Rev (though they could do the last part  
in another program) and a teacher who could lead them through a  
constructivist type project.

         Mark G

On Wednesday, June 1, 2005, at 06:32 AM, lisa wrote:


> Besides the nice thought of having a computer to bring over while
> visiting the grandparents and showing Grandpa what I created today
> (better yet on Grandpa's computer )... that pulls in a little
> research from his time...and might just get him talking about family
> history....
>
>   (like a formula used in the 1920s
>   [that I found in an old math book]
> to mix a horses' feed [wheat, corn, oats and rye] according to
> whether the horse was sedentary or working that day......
>

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