Here are just some of the past projects I have worked on with students in math and science over the years!
Mission POSSIBLEYOUR MISSION, SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO ACCEPT IT!
Through a series of design challenges, students will work together to explore: What are effective teams capable of? What measures the success of a design? What guides the creative design process? #0: Group Norms: Cup Pyramid #1: Tall Towers #2: Tinkering with Tops #3: Washer Parachutes #4: Custom Wallets #5: Pringle Challenge The Bionauts ProjectWhat does it take to thrive in a closed environment? In the BIOnauts project, students worked in small teams to create their own tabletop biosphere - a completely closed system that enabled a living shrimp to live inside for up to 4 months!
Mystery Code ProjectStudents combined work in humanities, math, and art to create original mystery stories and cover art. Through a study of codes, encryption, and ciphers, students embedded necessary clues within stories and also recorded them in the style of old time radio shows complete withs sound effects.
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Teenage Mutant Hero ProjectStudents researched real life mutations to inspire their creation of fictional superheroes and super villains. DNA extraction, a Bacterial Transformation Lab, Punnett square analysis, guest speakers and more are all a part of this project. Students used their scientific knowledge of heredity to then develop an origin story for their character, complete with a live reading at the San Diego Comic Gallery for exhibition.
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The VersUS ProjectStudents went on a 23-mile journey through San Diego to explore the question: What are we up against? Students spent time researching dichotomies in their local community and collecting data to create a proportional circle map of various measures. These maps were then covers for student published books. The map of their journey and their books were on display at the San Diego History Center.
Power of the Peaceful ProtestWorking together in music, humanities, and math, students put together an exhibition at SUSHI in downtown San Diego. The exhibition featured original protest songs, complete with two large canvas backdrops completed in math. Stencils representing the protest topic were created entirely in a mathematical graphing program.
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Perspectives ProjectPartnered with the San Diego Humane Society, students worked in humanities and physics to put together adoption packages for local animals. Students wrote original stories from the perspective of the animal, and accompanied the story with an image captured by a homemade pinhole camera. All images were developed by students and taken with their oatmeal can or shoebox cameras. .
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Sim City San DiegoStudents learned the operations research skills necessary for a hypothetical city planning project, which looked at the optimal solutions for land
use in the community to balance recreation and development - all while minimizing costs. The final project problem involved a 6 variable linear programming problem, solved with the input of the entire class.
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A Stitch in TimeStudents looked at quilts through history and secret quilt messages over time. Using their understanding of symmetry, geometry, and quadratic functions, students then created individual quilt squares to contribute to one large class quilt.
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Games from Around the GlobeStudents analyzed various games from around the world. What strategies exist? What does it take to win? What is probable and expected? Students then taught others through an international game night.
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Students create original works of art from the design/inspiration to an image created through a graphing program. Mathterpieces use linear, exponential, logarithmic, quadratic, piecewise, and more kinds of functions and equations to be created by limited range and domain with precision. Mathterpieces have been on display at coffee shops and at the New Children's Museum.
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