Lesson Plan 2: Moving About the Community/ Cardboard Automata
Slideshow lead-in:
Presentation lead-in for high school and middle school
Brief Description: Moving about the community is a design construction project as well as a data visualization exercise. Students build automata highlighting a personally significant destination in their community. Into the automata they also integrate the map they created in previous workshop. Students add information about travel distance and collective class data they gather.
Duration: 1.5 hour to 2 hours (broken into multiple sessions as needed)
Grade: can be scaled 5-9
Materials:
Map from previous workshop, written statement about one special spot, cardboard boxes, skewers, yarn, cardboard cams (pre-cut), straws, white glue, tape, colored construction paper, scissors, colored markers and pencils, access to google maps.
Lead in Exercises: (3 minutes) Exploration of Automatas. What are these? (several samples to test out) What do they tell you? How do they work?
Engagement Question: (5 minutes)
You are going to create a cardboard automata reflecting the data of your map and the distance it takes to walk, bike and take the bus to your special spots. How do you translate this information into something visual.
Step 1: Build the box: (20 minutes)
Assemble your automata. Using the pre drilled holes and pre cut cams, figure out how you are going to create your movement and assemble the parts. Test out movement and revise as needed to get the cams and cam follower to function properly.
Step 2: Movement feature: (20 minutes)
special spot or you in transit (walking, on bike, on bus)
Choose one of the five destinations you highlighted in your map. Create a silhouette of it in construction paper and cut it out. Tape it to the top movement post of you automata.
Step 3: Add personal treasure map: (10 minutes)
glue on your personal treasure map to back of box and wrap around edges. (Use glue sticks)
Step 4: Distance, Time, and Mode of Transportation
Add information to your box about the time it takes to get to your destinations via different modes of transit. Use google maps. Fill in distance_and_time handout key. After you fill it out, glue it onto side of box away from turning handle.
Something to think about. Your turning handle is 3" long. The diameter of the circle you trace when you turn one full revolution is 6". The circle it makes after a full rotation is of a circumference 2Pi r or 6 x 3.14= 18.84’’
If ¼ mile = 15840 inches then 1/4 mile= 1320 feet (15840/12)
18.84 (the one full rotation of handle) translated into feet (18.84/12) is 1.57 ft
1/4 mile divided by one full rotation of handle: 1320/1.57 = 840.76 rotations of your handle is a quarter mile.
If we say each turn represents 80 rotations, then 10.5 turns = quarter mile
Or reduced more:
If we say each turn represents 160 rotations, then 5.25 turns = quarter mile
Automata videos: Silver Creek High School
Presentation lead-in for high school and middle school
Brief Description: Moving about the community is a design construction project as well as a data visualization exercise. Students build automata highlighting a personally significant destination in their community. Into the automata they also integrate the map they created in previous workshop. Students add information about travel distance and collective class data they gather.
Duration: 1.5 hour to 2 hours (broken into multiple sessions as needed)
Grade: can be scaled 5-9
Materials:
Map from previous workshop, written statement about one special spot, cardboard boxes, skewers, yarn, cardboard cams (pre-cut), straws, white glue, tape, colored construction paper, scissors, colored markers and pencils, access to google maps.
Lead in Exercises: (3 minutes) Exploration of Automatas. What are these? (several samples to test out) What do they tell you? How do they work?
Engagement Question: (5 minutes)
You are going to create a cardboard automata reflecting the data of your map and the distance it takes to walk, bike and take the bus to your special spots. How do you translate this information into something visual.
Step 1: Build the box: (20 minutes)
Assemble your automata. Using the pre drilled holes and pre cut cams, figure out how you are going to create your movement and assemble the parts. Test out movement and revise as needed to get the cams and cam follower to function properly.
Step 2: Movement feature: (20 minutes)
special spot or you in transit (walking, on bike, on bus)
Choose one of the five destinations you highlighted in your map. Create a silhouette of it in construction paper and cut it out. Tape it to the top movement post of you automata.
Step 3: Add personal treasure map: (10 minutes)
glue on your personal treasure map to back of box and wrap around edges. (Use glue sticks)
Step 4: Distance, Time, and Mode of Transportation
Add information to your box about the time it takes to get to your destinations via different modes of transit. Use google maps. Fill in distance_and_time handout key. After you fill it out, glue it onto side of box away from turning handle.
Something to think about. Your turning handle is 3" long. The diameter of the circle you trace when you turn one full revolution is 6". The circle it makes after a full rotation is of a circumference 2Pi r or 6 x 3.14= 18.84’’
If ¼ mile = 15840 inches then 1/4 mile= 1320 feet (15840/12)
18.84 (the one full rotation of handle) translated into feet (18.84/12) is 1.57 ft
1/4 mile divided by one full rotation of handle: 1320/1.57 = 840.76 rotations of your handle is a quarter mile.
If we say each turn represents 80 rotations, then 10.5 turns = quarter mile
Or reduced more:
If we say each turn represents 160 rotations, then 5.25 turns = quarter mile
Automata videos: Silver Creek High School
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