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2. Create/compose a way to introduce the woman you are publicizing in the October Madness Brackets. It might be a comic, a Canva poster, a few slides you design to to make her accomplishments MEMORABLE to the audience.
Insert your introduction into the learning log OR email it to Sharon. Thank you! sae@umass.edu
Science and history are not dates and terms to be learned, THEY REPRESENT THE WORK OF PEOPLE-- many of them WOMEN who DO millions of things we do not know about with bravery, persistence and willingness not to quit.
5. How do people with big ideas make changes to society and to our lives?
Is their work accomplished without making mistakes or criticism from others ?
WHAT WE KNOW IS WHAT WE ARE TAUGHT OR WHAT WE DISCOVER https://www.ted.com/talks/derek_sivers_weird_or_just_different?language=en
Ethel L. Payne https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/black-journalist-ethel-payne-changed-national-agenda
Google Doodles teach about women in history who are designers, makers, engineers, scientists, mathematicians, explorers, the FIRST TO DO SOMETHING.
https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-justine-siegemund https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/justine-siegemund-google-doodle-celebrating-midwife-2237636
OUR PHONES! Could WE live without these hand held doorways to the world?
How did these inventions come to be? Who is responsible for their development? The Google Doodle shows history- World War II - and how a musical composer, an actress and player piano paper song rolls made cellular phones in the future possible! AMAZING!
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Not for the assignment: Learn more about Hedy Lamarr, Hollywood actress who was also a Scientist and an Inventor
What do you find interesting about the design of this Google Doodle as a way of teaching the hidden history of Hedy Lamarr whose invention SHOULD be known?
If you would like to learn more about Hedy Lamar, Hollywood actress who was also a Scientist and an Inventor
Additional Information about airplanes NOT for the class workshop but for those interested in these resources:
Paper Airplane Designed by Boeing Engineers Breaks World Distance Record (2023)
How Can We Confront and Dismantle Systemic Racism Through Science Learning (2021)
Paper Airplanes Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2017
Lesson Plan: Take Off with Paper Airplanes
In class we ask each site table to brainstorm names together and write these on the white board, listing as many names as possible in 60 seconds.
We will put resources you find for Ethel L. Payne that you would want students to access into a wiki page that we are building for her. Please email the resources you use or insert them into your learning log. rwm@umass.edu
20 SECONDS OF NAMES THAT YOU KNOW.
20 SECONDS OF NAMES THAT YOU KNOW.
Explore one topic in these hidden history multimodal wiki pages that you know little or nothing about. Answer the questions.
Women are scientists, inventors, researchers, explorers, creators and trailblazers--we should know who they are.
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, the only woman to have a Navy destroyer named for her, USS Hopper (DDG-70).
HONOLULU (April 15, 2011) The guided-missile destroyer USS Hopper (DDG 70) leaves Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam for an independent deployment. Hopper will conduct operations in the U.S. 5th and 7th Fleet areas or responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Jon Dasbach/Released) 110415-N-KT462-199
Harvard Mark I--First computer was 51' long, 8' high, and 8' feet deep
David Letterman, Late Night TV host, interviews a mathematician, college instructor, author, inventor of a computer language made easy for use by businesses, COBAL, the woman who coined the term, "bug in the system" after finding a an actual moth inside the computer stopping the functioning
0:08 to 0:33
https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/grace-hopper
Not for the assignment--if you would like information,
Science is QUESTIONS--NOT ANSWERS. When we find answers, we have more questions.
You will compose questions in this workshop and record your findings after you fold, launch, fly, and relaunch your paper planes a few times.
Longest Paper Airplane Flight on YouTube
Throwing Paper Airplanes With The World Record Holder
3 designs-Choose ONE to FOLD & FLY!
Choose a model paper plane from the video designs to FOLD, LAUNCH AND FLY!
3. Why did you choose the model of paper planes FROM THE VIDEO RESOURCE? What piqued your interest?
4. Write TWO questions you will investigate or research with the plane's flights. (INVITE A FRIEND TO JOIN.) Record details of the flight trials explaining what you learned trying to answer your questions.
BRING YOUR PLANE TO CLASS TUESDAY. We are flying those planes!
More Information--NOT for class--for those interested in resources for SELF TUTORING OR TUTORING OTHERS:
Make a Paper Mars Helicopter, a Learning Plan from NASA
Planes with Elaine, California Science Center
Paper Airplanes from the Exploratorium
Paper Airplanes Inducted into the National Toy Hall of Fame in 2017
Lesson Plan: Take Off with Paper Airplanes
Reflection about Self-Tutoring and Tutoring Others
Are you using mistakes as teachers or ways to assist learning when tutoring others? If so, how? If not, why not?
Are mistakes assisting your own self-tutoring? How? Could you be doing what you are doing without mistakes? Please explain.
Have you tried any of the games or resources from TEAMS assignments or weekly classes as learning tools for those you are tutoring or for yourself?
If so, what did you try and what happened?
If not, what might you try this week? Describe what you think the resource will do to help learning and why you are choosing it.
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