Backyard squirrel catapult plans3/19/2024 ![]() And they wrote like some learning objectives. ![]() And the lab, you know, went all over the place that everybody struggled, but it was kind of fun. And I just put a box of junk together and just handed it to every kid and was like, do recreate one of Newton's laws for me and demonstrate it. And I remember I had a really nice, it's my second year of teaching I had because it's one class and I just was like, I don't know, I want to do something cool. And it's exact same lab, it does what it's supposed to do. And you'd have one or two teaching partners, and they hand you a piece of paper. So I was teaching in the states and teaching bio and physics classes with everybody. So do you want to just give sort of the genesis of your teaching and your philosophy? Yeah. When you mentioned that you change the way you taught. Of course, my school won't let me buy enough cardboard and build it twice. I mean, like, oh, yeah, I can build it again. Why did it fail? What happened that caused that? And a lot of the times they had a lot of insight and like yeah, here's this one spot that failed. And then we'll kind of revisit these designs. And yeah, they build prototypes and see if it works. But it's about that whole building of it. The big thing is, is it nice at the end? Does it look cool? I guess that's nice. Like you always want to have the processes. With my classes, I've always wanted that. Do they then go back and see if they can tweak it? But it doesn't sound like a bad grade for them that it collapses, right? Because I'm a big dude. That's that's half the fun, right? You sit in it and the thing collapses. But you know, if you're really cool support my weight, because I'm a lot bigger than most of my kids. ![]() And yeah, I'm like it has to support students' weight. It's such a highlight now, and the kid got super into it. And so I just kind of started from there. So I'm like, what else can I do? And it's kind of an old hat project from engineering school, but they give you like three sheets of cardboard, and you got to build a chair that supports a person. Because I was like, Oh, I'll build it myself. And I came in over the weekend to try to build the chair. I was like I got this woodshop and go build a chair chair. I my very first year at Korea International School, I wanted to build a chair. I first saw you, I think it was an Instagram video, like an Instagram reel where the students had to design a chair.Īnd would you be able to sit on it and not fall on your butt. And it's been cool over time to kind of like change my teaching style completely and let kids do more and more and more of their own things. I think for me, I don't know, I really like building cool stuff, super industry and directly classrooms trying to do weird stuff in my classroom, that's fun that the kids are into. And then before that for 10 years, I was teaching physics and engineering in the United States for like a decade. And before that I was teaching at Korea International School just outside of Seoul, where I was for eight years, kind of started the design program with some other teachers and built it and it grew. I teach design and robotics and makerspace right now at the International School of Bangkok, where I just started about two weeks ago. It helps the podcast reach more educators. please rate it on Apple podcasts and leave a review. This is the fifth season of The Teacher As., and it's exciting to see the growth in how many educators are listening. And I hope with each season, you find episodes that speak to you in your work as an educator. I'm your host Melissa Milner, a teacher who is painfully curious and very easily inspired.
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