Building Crash Barriers: An Impulse Engineering Project

NCNAAPT, April 24th & 25th, 2015

Created in collaboration with Dan Burns of Los Gatos High School and Jon Brix of Amador Valley High School

 

This project was inspired by a conversation with Dan Burns and developed by Jon Brix and I. We continue to work on this project to refine it.

Poster (ppt or pdf) and handout (pdf or google doc)

Wire It up! Electric House Project

2nd Annual Re-Engineering your Science Curriculum, Exploratorium, April 13th, 2014

I presented another workshop about the Electric Building project.

Workshop Write-up (pdf or google doc)

Student introduction sheet (pdf or doc)

Workshop powerpoint (pdf or ppt)

Sample projects from 2012 and 2013

Physics class Electric Building Project page (not updated for 2014)

Chain Reactions

New Teacher Institute, Exploratorium, March 29th, 2014
Presented with Geoff Gould

Geoff and I presented a few different ways to teach chain reactions through Rube Goldberg machines. This can be a long term individual o group project or be done in one day!

Workshop Handout (pdf or google doc)

Workshop powerpoint (pdf or ppt)
 
Video Links:

• Geoff's Chain Reaction page
• •Honda Cog Commercial
• •Making of Honda Cog
• •OK Go - This Too Shall Pass music video
• •Pythagoras Switch videos from Japan
• •Steve Price’s “America’s Got Talent” audition

Wire It Up! Electric Building Project

Chevron STEM Conference Exploratorium November 23rd, 2013

As part of the Chevron STEM Conference by the Exploratorium I presented on my Electric House Project using recycled holiday lights.

Workshop Write-up (pdf or google doc)

Student introduction sheet (pdf or doc)

Workshop powerpoint (pdf or ppt)

Sample projects from 2012 and 2013

Physics class Electric Building Project page (not updated for 2014)