Agenda for the week:
More Claws, More Journaling
Work Groups will continue to troubleshoot their robots. This means the robot must be pretty quick and needs to have a motorized claw that grasps a soda can. These activities always sound simple and are very easy to do poorly.
Here are some observations from last week:
1.) The first attempts of attaching the claws to the robots looked clumsy and did not work very well. That is what I expected.
2.) More students were adding better quality notes to their journals. That is what I had I hoped for.
3.) Many of the robots got very heavy. That was not as predictable but I was not surprised.
4.) The gear trains were designed by using shortcuts. I thought I would see more gear trains designed better because we spent so much time on the dragsters and learning gear trains. I thought groups would use that information to their advantage when trying to design a robot for this task. You earned that knowledge from hard work. This surprised me.
5.) There was a lot of re-designing going on. I saw many more students willing to tear apart what they were building to fix a problem. That is what you should be doing.
Groups should be ready to run their robot and grasp a can by the end of the week.
I would like to see each student start a blog journal so that you can write and publish your work to the web.
More Claws, More Journaling
Work Groups will continue to troubleshoot their robots. This means the robot must be pretty quick and needs to have a motorized claw that grasps a soda can. These activities always sound simple and are very easy to do poorly.
Here are some observations from last week:
1.) The first attempts of attaching the claws to the robots looked clumsy and did not work very well. That is what I expected.
2.) More students were adding better quality notes to their journals. That is what I had I hoped for.
3.) Many of the robots got very heavy. That was not as predictable but I was not surprised.
4.) The gear trains were designed by using shortcuts. I thought I would see more gear trains designed better because we spent so much time on the dragsters and learning gear trains. I thought groups would use that information to their advantage when trying to design a robot for this task. You earned that knowledge from hard work. This surprised me.
5.) There was a lot of re-designing going on. I saw many more students willing to tear apart what they were building to fix a problem. That is what you should be doing.
Groups should be ready to run their robot and grasp a can by the end of the week.
I would like to see each student start a blog journal so that you can write and publish your work to the web.
4 comments:
Can I make a Lego Journal on Google Page Creator?
I have taken your suggestion into consideration and have helped Jonathan P. from class 749 to start a blog and I have showed him how to add pictures. Also, I have added more pictures to my own blog and I am updating my blog daily
Excellent job everyone. See me in classs for details.
Ok the URL is http://arc1hv3r.googlepages.com/legojournal.
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